Fighting for Human Rights and Democracy in the Digital World: New tools, new actors – How to be more efficient?
Moderators
Head of open government, Etalab
Amélie Banzet is in charge of Open Government for Etalab and is the French State point of contact for the Open Government Partnership.Etalab is part of the French Direction for State Digital, Information system and communication, within the Prime minister office, where it carries...
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Speakers
Executive Director, The SecDev Foundation
Deirdre Collings is the co-Founder and Executive Director of The SecDev Foundation, which works globally to promote digital opportunity, safety and citizenship in conflict and fragile contexts. She is a specialist in conflict and development, identity-based politics and digital change...
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Head of Journalism and Technology desk, Reporters without Borders
Identifying new threats that undermine the freedom of information l Knight-Wallace Fellow’20. Working on countering online attacks against female journalists.
Ambassador for Human Rights and Democracy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Ambassador at-large on Human Rights and Democracy Mr. Rauno Merisaari (b. 1957) is a Finnish diplomat and has a long career in the human rights policy and foreign relations both in the government and in civil society. He is a leading expert in the international human rights policy...
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European Policy Manager, Access Now
Fanny (@infofannny) is Access Now’s European Policy Manager based in Brussels. Previously, Fanny was International Privacy Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. where she focused on E.U.-U.S. data transfers. For three years Fanny led the Freedom...
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Director, TESPRDD, OHCHR
Since January 2016, Peggy Hicks has served as director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division at the UN's human rights office. From 2005 to 2015, she was global advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, where she was responsible for coordinating...
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Ambassador for Digital Affairs, France
Henri Verdier was born in 1968. Currently, he is Ambassador for Digital Affairs for the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Previously, he was the interministerial director for digital information and communications systems (DG Dinsic) of France; and director of Etalab...
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