[kictanet] Tech SMEs and human rights event

[Grace Githaiga]

Listers


This might be of interest to some of you.



Small and medium tech entreprises (SMEs) have a crucial – and increasing – role to play in respecting user rights in Kenya, including privacy and free expression. After all, they run the platforms on which people communicate; they provide the services that get you from A to B; and they store mountains of personal data about you, from your financial information, to where you have been since you last logged on.


Despite this, there’s not very much dialogue between human rights defenders and tech businesses in Kenya.


To address this missed opportunity, Global Partners Digital (GPD) – in collaboration with Facebook – will be running two free workshops in Nairobi, on Thursday 25 May and Friday 26 May,aimed at bringing businesses and civil society together to talk about privacy, security and free expression.


  *   The first event (Thursday 25 May) is a workshop for human rights defenders, which will explore ways human rights defenders can engage effectively with tech SMEs in Kenya, using a new tool developed by GPD.


  *   In the second event (Friday 26 May), we’ll introduce the tool to some local SMES, and discuss with them the importance and value of respecting privacy, security and free expression. Afterwards, civil society actors who attend will have the opportunity to network with these SMEs, which include some of the leading lights of the emerging tech scene in Nairobi.

To confirm your attendance at the first event, please email Charles Bradley on charles at gp-digital.org<mailto:charles at gp-digital.org>.

To confirm you attendance at the second event, please follow this link.<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-protect-your-users-data-from-hackers-and-governments-tickets-34417575896>

Spaces are limited, so please register asap!

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Charles Bradley
Executive Director | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL
Second Home, 68 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL
T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 | M: +44 (0)7852 535222 | Skype: charles.globalpartners
gp-digital.org<http://gp-digital.org/>
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