Access to Knowledge is a campaign by the Center for Internet and Society to promote the fundamental principles of justice, freedom, and economic development. It deals with issues like copyrights, patents and trademarks, which are an important part of the
This section of the Electronic Frontier Foundation unpacks different issues in regards to intellectual property including DCMA, file sharing, patents and copyright. Even if the content is quite US-specific, you’ll find resources in this section that unpack the uderlining issues
By Deborah Brown, Senior Project Coordinator, and Jac Sm Kee, Women’s Rights Programme Manager, Association for Progressive Communications Source: ISHR In recent years, revelations of mass governmental surveillance have propelled the right to privacy into the public eye and discourse. However,
16 May 2012 By Jac sm Kee Source: GenderIT.org I found myself being confronted with the issue of anonymity and accountability in different ways at the AWID Forum. At the Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX) and Connect Your Rights events that
15 September 2014 By Rafia Shaikh Source: GenderIT.org Since the Edward Snowden saga, a lot of focus has been geared towards individual privacy rights and ultimately to the fight against mass surveillance. In this ongoing attempt to create a
17 November 2009 By Jac sm Kee Source: GenderIT.org I attended two sessions on privacy yesterday and today. The first one was on Privacy, Literacy and Social Networking and the second today, was on Privacy Protection, Openness and Online Behavioral
14 September 2010 By Francoise Mukuku The future of privacy is a theme that strikes me directly. Will ‘privacy’ in ten years be different from what we know today? I’m a lawyer by training and I know that the law
Webinar on privacy on the road to the Global Conference on Cyberspace 2015 in The Hague. With Andrew Puddephatt, Global Partners Digital.
By Alex Comninos (APC), April 2013 The security of digital networks and of networked digital information is increasingly important to stakeholders in governments, the private sector and civil society. This paper introduces some important conceptual issues in cyber security; investigates
10 June 2013 By Margarita Salas Source: GenderIT.org When we talk about freedom of expression we are within the paradigm of human rights. Human rights are indivisible, interrelated and interdependent, which means that the improvement of one right facilitates