Updates on I-star Organizations From the Bullshit Police

Presented at HOPE 2020 Virtual Rescheduled, Aug. 1, 2020, 11 a.m. (50 minutes)

A panel of experts, technologists, and lawyers will give an update on several I-star organizations, namely ICANN, IETF, IEEE, and ITU. Short presentations will touch on the major controversies in each space as they relate to human rights, namely freedom of expression and the right to privacy. Questions to the panel from the moderator will draw out the tensions and synergies of human rights considerations in Internet governance and standards setting across the I-star bodies. Questions from the audience are encouraged.


Presenters:

  • Daniel Kahn Gillmor / dkg as Daniel Kahn Gillmor
    **Daniel Kahn Gillmor** is a contributor to free software projects including Debian, notmuch, GnuPG, and Enigmail, and a technologist for the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. He is also a participant in the IETF, where he focuses on security, privacy, and other protocol features that impact civil rights and liberties.
  • Juliana Guerra
    **Juliana Guerra** studied sociology and explores the intersection between body, technology, and social movements. She has worked at Derechos Digitales since 2016 where she is responsible for coordinating and implementing advocacy and communication strategies, with emphasis on technical issues. In recent years, her work has focused on feminist digital security and infrastructures.
  • Mallory Knodel
    **Mallory Knodel (@malloryknodel)** is the CTO for the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington DC. She advises the Freedom Online Coalition on human rights respecting cybersecurity policy and is the co-chair of the Human Rights and Protocols Considerations research group of the IRTF.
  • Mehwish Ansari
    **Mehwish Ansari (@mehwishaansari)** is a delegate for the U.K. to the ITU-T, ITU-D, and ITU Council. Previously, Mehwish worked on digital rights issues at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), as part of the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. She holds an MSc in global governance and diplomacy from the University of Oxford.
  • Amelia Andersdotter
    **Amelia Andersdotter (@teirdes)** works at CENTR, a trade organization for the Council of European ccTLD registries. She also works on data protection in Sweden with DataSkydd. She was a member of the European Parliament until 2014 and promoted copyright reform, competition, and interplay between technical and legal standards.

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