Category: Human rights
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Notes from Wilton Park, or The Internet Is Not A Horse
I’ve finally got around to posting my notes for a presentation I gave at a convening in May 2011 on Media, Social Media, and Democratic Governance at Wilton Park (here’s a PDF of the conference programme – and here’s some more about the history of Wilton Park). It was a few months before Cameras Everywhere was published, and it…
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Fact-checking, redux
This year’s Newsfoo felt to me rather different from the 2010 edition. There seemed to be less discussion of how to sustain or resource news, or about the contexts of news consumption, and more about how to deal with some of the cognitive, knowledge-management and even ethical issues of news journalism. This post is on initiatives/tools…
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This week, conferences on internet, privacy, security, openness
Following on from the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference last week, discussions looking at various aspects of the web and society are coming thick and fast. Here are two three four just this week: Today/tomorrow in London it’s the UK Foreign Office’s London Conference on Cyberspace (programme) – which seems heavy on cybersecurity, anti-hacking, and cybercrime, but opened…
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RightsCon panel today (Workshop 12, on visual content and human rights)
Today in San Francisco, I’m moderating a panel at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference. I’ll be joined by Steve Grove (formerly of YouTube, now of Google+), Sam Gregory of WITNESS, Hans Eriksson of Bambuser, and Thor Halvorssen of the Human Rights Foundation and Oslo Freedom Forum. You can watch the video live here, or…
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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 – Content has changed our world, how do we manage its impact on society, governance, and privacy? Panelists: Sam Gregory, Program Director, WITNESS Thor Halvorssen, Founder, Oslo Freedom…
Sameer Padania 