Presented at
Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017),
Aug. 6, 2017, 4:50 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Standards bodies, infrastructure providers, internet governance organizations and operators are getting more attention nowadays, but how are these institutions impacting human rights?
In this talk we'll introduce you to the slippery acronym world of the IETF, ICANN, IEEE, ITU, 3GPP, RFCs, IXPs, RIRs and we promise you won't be bored!
We'll try tot uncover parts that are crucial for what is (im)possible on the Internet, but that normally stay hidden. As a bonus we'll show you what you can do!
#Politics #Society
Presenters:
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Niels ten Oever
Niels implemented freedom of expression projects in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and Northern Africa, Brazil and Afghanistan and worked on global Internet governance issues in ICANN, IETF, IEEE and ITU. Niels started off working on radio when he got bitten by the Linux bug. After that he increasingly worked on websites, apps, internet governance, digital rights and digital security. Why? Because technology can support democratic processes by improving freedom of expression, access to information and organizing. Peer-to-peer is far more interesting than one-to-many.
Niels is a free and open source software enthusiast who has trained journalists, activists and human rights defenders in reporting, activist engagement strategies in Internet governance fora, digital security, and media production. Niels holds a cum laude research MA in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam where he currently is a PhD candidate in the topic of Data Activism.
Niels furthermore promises that this was the last time he wrote about himself in the third person.
Twitter: @nielstenoever
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