Name: Putting Users First! The responsibility of tech SMEs in the Global South to respect human rights
Start: 2019-06-13T14:15:00+0100
End: 2019-06-13T15:30:00+0100

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Putting Users First! The responsibility of tech SMEs in the Global South to respect human rights

This session aims to address the challenge that many tech SMEs face in implementing the UN Guiding Principles due to a lack of capacity and resources comparable to larger companies. This challenge is particularly acute in the global south, where an absence of National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights, and up-to-date legal and regulatory frameworks, have meant issues left unconsidered. By bringing together representatives of large tech companies, tech SMEs, human rights defenders, and others, we will debate, discuss and share the good practices of others, and find ways of transferring the broad principles in the UN Guiding Principles into practical steps that tech SMEs can take to respect their users’ human rights.

Moderators

Richard Wingfield

Head of Legal, Global Partners Digital

Speakers

Abdulghani Kataya

Leandro Ucciferri

Policy Analyst, Asociación por los Derechos Civiles

I'm a lawyer, policy analyst and researcher working at the Association for Civil Rights (ADC in Spanish), a not-for-profit, independent, NGO founded in 1995, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. My work focuses mostly on privacy issues. https://leandro.im

'Gbenga Sesan

Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative

‘Gbenga Sesan is the Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative, a social enterprise that works on digital rights and digital inclusion across Africa, with offices in Cameroon, Nigeria, Tanzania, Togo and Zambia. Originally trained as an Electronic & Electrical Engineer at Obafemi... Read More →