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In beta is a podcast which investigates the big questions facing human rights in the digital environment. It's created and delivered by Global Partners Digital (GPD) – a social purpose company dedicated to fostering a digital environment underpinned by human rights and democratic values.
Episodes
July 15, 2020 • 30 mins
We speak to Jason Pielemeier, Policy Director at the Global Network Initiative (GNI), for a big picture discussion on the rapidly involving debate around online content regulation.
Find out more about GNI's upcoming policy brief on online content regulation here: globalnetworkinitiative.org/dsa-roundtable-june4/
Follow Jason on Twitter here: twitter.com/pielemeier
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July 9, 2020 • 15 mins
In this episode, we speak to Sharon Bradford Franklin, Policy Director at New America's Open Technology Institute, about a new report contact tracing apps: 'Digital Tools for COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Identifying and Mitigating the Equity, Privacy, and Civil Liberties Concerns.'
Read the report here: https://www.newamerica.org/oti/policy-papers/digital-tools-covid-19-contact-tracing-identifying-and-mitigating-equity-privacy-and-ci...
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June 30, 2020 • 21 mins
We discuss the recently launched www.disinformationtracker.org with the team at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria (CHR)—Hlengiwe Dube, Marystella Simiyu, and Tomiwa Ilori Ilori.
Find out more about CHR here: https://www.chr.up.ac.za/
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June 19, 2020 • 26 mins
In this episode, we speak to Ivana Bartoletti, author of the recent book, An Artificial Revolution: Power, Politics and AI.
Buy the book here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Artificial-Revolution-Power-Politics-Indigo-ebook/dp/B0874WLS4L/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Take a look at our new tool to track disinformation responses in Sub Saharan Africa here: https://www.disinformationtracker.org/
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June 8, 2020 • 26 mins
We speak to Barrie Sander, Fellow at Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) Direito Rio in Brazil, about current trends in content moderation by online platforms.
Read his recent article, "Freedom of Expression in the Age of Online Platforms" here: https://www.fordhamilj.org/new-blog/2020/5/19/freedom-of-expression-in-the-age-of-online-platforms-the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-content-moderation
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May 28, 2020 • 22 mins
We speak to Evelyn Douek, a leading commentator on online content moderation by platforms, about Facebook's Oversight Board—which recently unveiled its first slate of members.
Recent work by Evelyn:
https://lawreviewblog.uchicago.edu/2020/05/11/fb-oversight-board-edouek/
https://www.lawfareblog.com/covid-19-and-social-media-content-moderation
Other resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/20/1...
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May 19, 2020 • 20 mins
We speak to GPD Senior Programme Lead Sheetal Kumar about how COVID-19 is affecting discussions on cyber norms at the international level.
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.globalencryption.org/events/
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May 13, 2020 • 14 mins
We speak to Prasanth Sugathan of the Software Freedom Law Center in India (SFLC.IN) about how the COVID-19 pandemic is playing out in India, and its impacts on human rights in the digital environment.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/1000961/launching-mittr-covid-tracing-tracker/
https://www.accessnow.org/privacy-and-public-health-the-dos-and-donts-for-covid-19-contact-tracing-apps/
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May 5, 2020 • 20 mins
We speak to CIPESA's Ashnah Kalemera about responses to COVID-19 on the African continent.
Explore CIPESA's work here: https://cipesa.org/
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Other resources mentioned in this episode:
https://freedex.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2015/files/2020/04/A_HRC_44_49_AdvanceEditedVersion.pdf
https://ict4peace.org/activities/a-human-centric-framework-to-evaluate-the-risks-raised-by-contact-tracin...
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April 28, 2020 • 14 mins
We speak to Stefaan Verhulst about GovLab's new repository of COVID-related data initiatives.
Explore the repository here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JWeD1AaIGKMPry_EN8GjIqwX4J4KLQIAqP09exZ-ENI/edit
And find out more about The GovLab's Global AI Ethics Consortium (GAIEC) here: https://medium.com/data-stewards-network/the-global-ai-ethics-consortium-gaiec-on-ethics-and-the-use-of-data-and-artificial-intelligence-f3dfcdee...
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April 21, 2020 • 18 mins
We talk to Nick Couldry, Professor of Media and Communications and Social Theory at LSE, about the concept of data colonialism, and how it can help us understand the present moment.
Find out more about Professor Couldry's latest book, The Cost of Connection, here: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28816
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April 14, 2020 • 16 mins
We speak to Lisa Vermeer of the International Center for Not-For-Profit Law (ICNL) about the COVID-19 Civic Freedom Tracker (https://www.icnl.org/covid19tracker/), a new tool which monitors government responses to the pandemic that affect civic freedoms and human rights.
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April 8, 2020 • 15 mins
We talk to our Head of Legal, Richard Wingfield, about recent measures taken by governments and tech companies to counter disinformation in the context of COVID-19.
Links for the resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.icnl.org/covid19tracker/
https://www.privacyinternational.org/examples/tracking-global-response-covid-19
https://www.derechosdigitales.org/14301/civil-society-from-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-demands-t...
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November 1, 2018 • 30 mins
In the wake of the 2016 US election, and more recent incidents like the Cambridge Analytica scandal, media and political narratives increasingly posit digital technologies as a threat to democracy. Are they? We speak to Jamie Bartlett, author of a new book which makes this argument, to unpack and explore this question.
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October 25, 2018 • 47 mins
Governments and other institutions are increasingly avoiding the term "fake news", preferring disinformation.
But if the term has fallen out of fashion, policy responses to the issues it evokes show few signs of abating. In Singapore, the government has just signalled their intention to develop a new law to tackle “online falsehoods.” This follows an extensive public consultation which, on paper, seems like an admirable commitment...
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October 18, 2018 • 42 mins
In California, a landmark piece of legislation recently passed which regulate the usage of internet bots in certain contexts. The original version of the bill was broader, and attracted significant opposition from human rights defenders – who argued that it posed a risk to freedom of expression.
To find out more about this story, and the questions it raises, we spoke to Jeremy Gillula of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and lawy...
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February 20, 2018 • 36 mins
GPD's Charles Bradley talks to Sonia Jorge, Executive Director of A4AI and head of digital inclusion programmes at the Web Foundation, about the challenge of achieving universal access to the internet.
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January 18, 2018 • 29 mins
In 1982, the Bell telecommunications monopoly in the US was broken up after a landmark antitrust suit, ushering in a wave of innovation and competition.
Today, companies like Alphabet and Facebook are capturing an unprecedented – and increasing – share of the world’s attention. Should we be thinking about breaking them up, too? We ask Gene Kimmelman of Public Knowledge.
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November 2, 2017 • 20 mins
GPD's executive director Charles Bradley talks to Gaus Rajnovic, chief financial officer and board member at the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), and GPD's Lead Strategist Matthew Shears, about multistakeholder approaches to cybersecurity.
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September 27, 2017 • 25 mins
GPD's executive director Charles Bradley talks to Emma Llansó, Director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) about the role of intermediaries like Facebook and Twitter, and how growing pressure on them to remove user content might affect our freedom of expression.
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