Podcasts about internet rights

Join us for an insightful conversation as Chat Garcia Ramilo, Executive director of the Association for Progressive Communications, and Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister, delve into the captivating evolution of "internet rights." From inception to contemporary application, they navigate the journey of digital freedoms and envision a future where the internet continues to empower societies. Explore the dynamic landscape of online rights and the promise they hold for a connected world. Host ⎸ Sam Robbins (TaiwanPlus) Guests ⎸ Chat Garcia Ramilo and Audrey Tang Season 2 of Innovative Minds deep-dives into artificial intelligence, digital democracy, and freedom of expression with leading tech figures. This podcast is released under a CC BY 4.0. Creative Commons licence.

This week on the show we're featuring an episode of our Building for Digital Equity podcast, with Brandon Forester - the National Organizer for Internet Rights at Media Justice - joining Christopher to talk about helping communities build more agency over how technology shows up in their neighborhoods and among the digital communities they create for themselves.   ★ Support this podcast ★

Brandon Forester is the National Organizer for Internet Rights at Media Justice. We talk about organizing for digital equity and more specifically Brandon's vision for communities having agency over how technology shows up in their neighborhoods and digital communities. We discuss how Media Justice came to prioritize prison phone justice, what organizing is and how local solutions may differ in different communities, and the need to avoid purity politics in doing this work. 

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In conversation with Bulanda Nkhowani, Amina Idris and Koliwe Majama The annual campaign spearheaded by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria is #Tech4Rights: Rethinking a human rights-based approach to new technologies in Africa. The #Tech4Rights campaign focuses on the impact of new technologies on different aspects of human interaction and the impact of technology on human rights. This campaign has a series of activities that look into technology in various specific areas. The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria through its  Expression, Information and Digital Rights Unit, and Paradigm Initiative (PIN) entered into a partnership offering an academic course to 30 select participants of PIN's programmes and the Digital Rights and Inclusion Media Fellowship (DRIMF). DRIMF is a four-month fellowship with two intakes from 1 March to 30 June and from 1 August to 30 November each year. PIN also presents a 9-month Digital Rights and Inclusion Learning Lab from 1 March to 30 November every year. Through various learning methods, fellows are introduced to the international and regional digital rights ecosystem. The objectives of the fellowship are to expose participants to the digital rights landscape and enhance their knowledge and skills in digital rights in Africa. In light of this partnership and the annual campaign of the Centre, this episode discusses access to the internet and internet governance in Africa. The speakers, Bulanda Nkhowani, Amina Idris and Koliwe Majama, share their insights on access to the internet and internet governance, drawing their experiences from Zambia and Nigeria. The discussion explores what meaningful access means, based on Part IV of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights resolution on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information on the internet, including conversations on regulatory and operational challenges of licencing community networks in Africa. Furthermore, the discussion explores solutions for bridging the gender digital divide at national level and how to address the growing trend of network disruptions, both nationally and regionally. The podcast concludes by giving recommendations to service providers and governments on how to ensure that citizens have access to critical information during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bulanda Tapiwa Nkhowani is a writer, researcher and public policy enthusiast with a focus on internet governance, digital rights and digital inclusion, and is actively involved in internet governance policy forums and discussions at all levels. She is a co-convenor of the Zambia Internet Governance Forum (Zambia IGF) and an alumna of the Africa School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG). Bulanda currently works with Paradigm Initiative as a Digital Rights and Inclusion Program Officer and regional lead for Southern Africa. Amina Ibrahim Idris is an experienced officer in community development and capacity building with focus on connecting underserved youths with ICT enabled opportunities to improve their livelihood. Amina works with the Digital Inclusion team at Paradigm Initiative and she is the program assistance for the Northwest region. Koliwe Majama is a Zimbabwean Media, Information, Communications and Technologies Consultant with over 15 years' experience working in civil society lobby and advocacy. She has invested in networking and thought leadership on varying internet governance trends on a regional and global level, including gender and the internet, which she is passionate about. She currently works with the Association for Progressive Communications as a coordinator of the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (AfDec) and as an organiser of the African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG). This conversation was recorded on 15 June 2021. Edited by Tatenda Musinahama Music: Inner Peace by Mike Chino https://soundcloud.com/mike-chinoCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/0nI6qJeqFcc 

This panel will discuss the status of federal and state privacy legislation and other policy proposals in the United States, and how they may shift in the wake of the pandemic. How does the balance between privacy and other social welfare interests shift in a crisis? Will privacy enforcement priorities shift? Will there be a stronger push for harmonization with foreign privacy laws and policies? SESSION CHAIR/MODERATOR Christopher N. OLSEN, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Washington, DC SPEAKERS Maneesha MITHAL, Associate Director, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC Alison PEPPER, Senior Vice President, American Association of Advertising Agencies, Washington, DC Jessica RICH, Attorney, Washington, DC Lee TIEN, Senior Staff Attorney & Adams Chair for Internet Rights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA

By ranking the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet. Nathalie Maréchal, Senior Research Analyst at Ranking Digital Rights, talked with Frédéric Dubois about the wrong doings of internet and telecommunications companies such as Facebook, Apple or Deutsche Telekom. Learn about how RDR is rethinking how to hold companies accountable for human rights harms associated with targeted advertising, algorithms, and machine learning – maneuvering from looking only at individual rights to understanding the collective consequences of the companies' policies and practices.

Guest: Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney and Adams Chair for Internet Rights at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) First broadcast DEC 14, 2018. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2018/12/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-december-14th-the-frontiers-of-privacy-episode-406/ “There's a lot to like about [the California Consumer Privacy Act], but there are a lot more things we could do.”

From November, 2013. Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit out of his dorm room at the University of Virginia. As a leader of the grass-roots movement that overturned Congress's Stop Online Piracy Act and Senate IP Protection Act, he earned a spot in The Daily Dot's top ten most influential Internet Rights activists of 2012 and was dubbed the "Mayor of the Internet" by Forbes. Still, as you'll discover in this episode, Alexis is an incredibly down-to-earth guy with a great sense of humor. On today's show, Alexis, Bryan and Hunter talk about Alexis' book Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed. As more and more individuals use the internet to innovate and create better and better business opportunities, there's plenty of reasons to be optimistic. However, there are things we need to do to ensure those freedoms. Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed is available from all major booksellers. Alexis can be followed on twitter @alexisohanian.

Jordan Valerie was joined on the podcast by Erin Shields, National Field Organizer for Internet Rights from the Center for Media Justice and Black Youth Project 100 Organizer, to discuss the history of net neutrality and what we can do to protect it against Chairman Pai and the corporate forces attempting to de-democratize the web.

Under the Trump administration, we’ve seen some devastating changes to laws that protect our families, our rights, and our resources. This week, we take a look at what these changes could mean for our internet and media. We join the Center for Media Justice (CMJ), a national organization that fights to protect the digital rights of poor people and people of color, to learn about the FCC under the Trump administration. We speak with Steven Renderos, the Organizing Director for CMJ, and Erin Shields, CMJ’s National Field Organizer for Internet Rights. And, we’ll hear a commentary on the power of the internet from GJ member, Edgar Cruz. As always, you can catch us live every Sunday on 89.9 FM in Albuquerque, or on KUNM.org!

Erin Shields, National Field Organizer for Internet Rights, with the Center for Media Justice, shares about the importance of an open internet and how people can get involved.

Nnenna Nwakanma, Manuela Yamada, Carolyn Florey, Christoph Beier How do we need to change our systems in order to eradicate poverty and enable the world's population to meet basic demands of all people? What do governments and development organizations need to change in order to create real change and impact? Two speakers will present their views before engaging in a fire-side chat on open access to for information and technology for development. Nnenna Nwakanma is the voice behind the chant “All the Internet, all the people, all the time”. She is one of the key advocates for open data, open government and the open Web across Africa, for instance by driving forward the Africa Open Data movement and the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms. She represents the Web Foundation in the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. Manuela Yamanda is one of Brazils young change makers advocating a systemic change in politics and business toward a sustainable, open society. She is doing so by heading the Ouishare Brazil Chapter and by running MateriaBrasil, a free open source platform that works as a library for social-environmentally responsible materials, products and services available in Brazil. Together they will present and discuss their change agenda for governments, development organizations and civil society on how to restructure the Global Power Paradigm through Open Source. Concrete suggestions for the apation and implementation of digital development principles will be made.

Nnenna Nwakanma, Manuela Yamada, Carolyn Florey, Christoph Beier How do we need to change our systems in order to eradicate poverty and enable the world's population to meet basic demands of all people? What do governments and development organizations need to change in order to create real change and impact? Two speakers will present their views before engaging in a fire-side chat on open access to for information and technology for development. Nnenna Nwakanma is the voice behind the chant “All the Internet, all the people, all the time”. She is one of the key advocates for open data, open government and the open Web across Africa, for instance by driving forward the Africa Open Data movement and the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms. She represents the Web Foundation in the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. Manuela Yamanda is one of Brazils young change makers advocating a systemic change in politics and business toward a sustainable, open society. She is doing so by heading the Ouishare Brazil Chapter and by running MateriaBrasil, a free open source platform that works as a library for social-environmentally responsible materials, products and services available in Brazil. Together they will present and discuss their change agenda for governments, development organizations and civil society on how to restructure the Global Power Paradigm through Open Source. Concrete suggestions for the apation and implementation of digital development principles will be made.

Guests: Dwyane Winseck, Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication and John Lawford, Executive Director and General Counsel of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) in Ottawa. 

How are we, and the rest of the world, doing in striking the right balance between protecting Internet rights and serving national security concerns? How much should citizens in democracies get a say in what that balance is? Rebecca MacKinnon, a former CNN correspondent in China and now director of the New America Foundation's "Ranking Digital Rights Project," weighs in.

[Jenny Toomey, Director of the Internet Rights unit at the Ford Foundation, talks about the differences and similarities between running a DIY record label and helping innovators get the resources they need.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59822

[Jenny Toomey, Director of the Internet Rights unit at the Ford Foundation, talks about the differences and similarities between running a DIY record label and helping innovators get the resources they need.] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59822

Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit out of his dorm room at the University of Virginia. As a leader of the grass-roots movement that overturned Congress's Stop Online Piracy Act and Senate IP Protection Act, he earned a spot in The Daily Dot's top ten most influential Internet Rights activists of 2012 and was dubbed the "Mayor of the Internet" by Forbes. Still, as you'll discover in this episode, Alexis is an incredibly down-to-earth guy with a great sense of humor. On today's show, Alexis, Bryan and Hunter talk about Alexis' book Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed. As more and more individuals use the internet to innovate and create better and better business opportunities, there's plenty of reasons to be optimistic. However, there are things we need to do to ensure those freedoms. Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed is available from all major booksellers. Alexis can be followed on twitter @alexisohanian.