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Session Three | Sep 13

SESSION TITLE

All about rights ICT Laws, human rights, social justice and feminism


About the Mentors

Pavitra  Ramanujam


Verónica Ferrari

Verónica is Global Policy Advocacy Coordinator at the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), where she coordinates the organization and members’ involvement in various global policy spaces such as the UN OEWG, the ITU, the UN Human Rights Council and the OECD, among others. Verónica also represents APC at the Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network where she co-leads the Digital Equality Task Force.
Before joining APC, she served as a senior policy advisor at the Government Secretariat of Modernization in Argentina, where she led the work with the OECD on digital government, open government, and innovation. In that role, Verónica also represented Argentina at the OECD Public Governance Committee and coordinated the work on gender at the G20 Digital Economy Task Force during the 2018 Argentinian Presidency.
Previously, she worked at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE), and as a consultant with several digital rights organizations in Latin America.
Verónica holds a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master’s degree in Public Policy at Central European University. Her work focuses on freedom of expression, privacy, and gender and technology.


ABOUT THE SESSION

In this session you can expect to leave the room with the below takeaways:

  • The various ICT Laws and structures
  • The different approaches to rights (human rights, freedom of expression)

Structure

  1. What are human rights? 

    International framework of human rights
    Impact of ICTs on human rights

  1. How ICT norms and laws can advance or negatively impact human rights 

    At the global level (importance, examples)
    At the national level (importance, examples) 

  1. What's a human rights approach to ICT laws, policies and norms 

    And what is an intersectional approach
    Key guiding questions 

  1. Exercise

    In groups participants will analyze a of piece of legislation/policy using some of the key guiding questions.



Presentation and Exercise

Presentation           SPACE 22 - ICT Laws presentation.pdf

Exercise English   Human Rights & ICTs - Group Exercise.pdf

Exercise Spanish   DD.HH. y TICs_Group_Exercise_Spanish.pdf


Resources

 Legal systems and ICT laws

Human Rights, human rights online and rights-based approach

Access, telecom policy and shutdowns

Freedom of expression

ICTs, gender and intersectionality