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Landmark: Voter Beware! - Microtargeting in Political Elections and Campaigns
Moderators
Programs & Partnerships, Meedan
Tom Trewinnard (UK) is Director of Programs at Meedan, a social technology non-profit working on the Check project to develop collaborative verification tools and open training curricula. He is a co-founder of Pop-Up Newsroom, which has led major collaborative reporting initiatives...
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Speakers DC
Director, Democracy Program, Carter Center
David Carroll is director of the Carter Center's Democracy Program and leads the Center's work on developing and building consensus on international standards. He also coordinates a Carter Center team working to develop a methodology and related tools to assess the impact of social...
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Data Scientist, Tactical Tech
Varoon Bashyakarla is a data scientist at the Tactical Technology Collective, a Berlin-based NGO that works globally at the intersection of civil society and technology. For the past two years, he has been studying how personal data is becoming a political asset, influencing elections...
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Cofounder and president, Panoptykon Foundation
Lawyer, activist, performer. Still believing that reclaiming control and power over data is possible. Fighting this battle for last 10 years.
Participant, g0v.tw
I am...- A web developer that works at an Internet company as a day job.- An open-sourced civic tech supporter, participated & founded several projects that facilitates civic participation of democracy.- Going to present Cofacts, the voluntary project I have founded in mid 2016Cofacts...
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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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