[kictanet] The Dark Side of Internet Policy: How flawed policy can lead to censorship, surveillance and shutdowns

[Barrack Otieno]

Listers,

This might be of interest to some. Remote Participation will be available.

Best Regards

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:11:05 -0500
Subject: [Internet Policy] IGF17/ 20th Dec. 1040: The Dark Side of
Internet Policy: How flawed policy can lead to censorship,
surveillance and shutdowns
To: internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to extend an invitation to those attending the IGF in
Geneva next week to join us us Wednesday, December 20th, 10:40 - 12:10,
in room Room IX/A for the session titled :

The Dark Side of Internet Policy:How flawed policy can lead to
censorship, surveillance and shutdowns


A description of the session is available below and at the following
URL:
https://goo.gl/TrqHBt



The internet’s promise as an open civic space for democratic
participation has increasingly come under assault, whether by government
laws targeting political dissent online, censorship, and network
disruptions, to the sophisticated use of troll farms, gender-based hate
speech, and propaganda to poison public discourse.  Moreover, civil
society elements most concerned with the ever increasing erosion of
online rights - - investigative journalists, digital rights activists,
and academic policy analysts -- are often under-resourced, and suffer
from a lack of unity and direction necessary for effective counter
advocacy.

A seasoned panel of activists, academic researchers, press and media
specialists report out dispatches from the front lines of four countries
facing unique challenges and threats to online civic spaces and
democratic engagement: Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
We’ll cover everything from “hybrid warfare” and gender based
harassment online, to a new ministry of cybersecurity, threat detection
and mitigation, and attempts to use hate speech codes to stifle free
expression.

This collaborative and multidisciplinary effort aims to highlight and
present traditionally under-represented stakeholders and issues in this
forum, and encourages audience participation.

Moderator: Dominic Bellone, Sr. Program Officer, Counterpart
International

Speaker: Guy Berger, Director for Freedom of Expression and Media
Development, UNESCO

Speaker: Nalaka Gunawardene, science writer, journalist and development
communication specialist (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Speaker: Andrii Puziak  Taras Shevchenko University (Kyiv, Ukraine),
Hubert Humphrey Fellow American University Washington College of Law

Speaker: Iria Puyosa, Researcher and consultant on political
communication, stakeholders relations, internet policies and digital
strategy, (Quito, Ecuador)

Speaker: Earnest Mudzengi, Executive Director, Media Centre (Harare,
Zimbabwe)

Speaker: Vitaliy Moroz, Director of New Media Development,
Internews-Ukraine (Kyiv)

Speaker: Sachini Perera is a Sri Lankan feminist activist currently
based in Malaysia. She has a background in law, journalism and
international relations, and has worked in strategic communications and
advocacy with feminist and women’s rights organizations for the last
decade.
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