Category: Activism
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What Image Opened Your Eyes to Human Rights? (from the archives…)
When I worked at WITNESS, we debated hotly how to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2008. We wanted to do something that felt contemporary, that felt open as a campaign, and that anyone – anyone – would have a response to and could run with. What we came…
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Privacy holes in the app economy
The tech world has finally woken up to the safety and privacy risks in the app economy. Path’s silent address book mining sparked widespread outrage, and has had ripples for lots of web services and mobile apps that had, until now, seen as “industry best practice” the long-term retention and mining of customers’ contacts (UPDATE:…
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Article on new media and human rights in The Interdependent
I forgot to cross-post this, which I wrote in December for the UNA-USA’s The Interdependent: How we communicate and connect, how we see and document the world around us, how we express ourselves—all have been transformed over the past decade. Hundreds of millions of us on every continent experience this directly in our daily lives, from…
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Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge/media/connection/exchange* (delete as applicable)
A few years back, before all this internet/smartphone/ubiquitous stuff, I worked for a media development NGO, helping to strengthen public-interest media in the developing world, as a critical part of public debate and social change. One of the ways we used to articulate why it was important to support these independent, public and community media…
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Speaking at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference
In two weeks’ time, I’ll be moderating a workshop at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, on a topic dear to my heart: Visual content and human rights – Visual content has changed our world – how do we manage its impact on society, governance, and privacy? Panelists: Sam Gregory, Program Director, WITNESS Thor Halvorssen,…
Sameer Padania 