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Q&A: Corporate Accountability for Digital Rights in MENA [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

In this #BreadandNet 2020 session, the Tunisian research analyst at the Corporate Accountability Index Afef Abrougui and the Egyptian journalist Wafaa Heikal discuss Corporate Accountability of Telecommunication companies. Abrougui looks into how the policies and practices of telecommunication and technology companies affect digital rights in the region. The speakers also address how organizations in the […]

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Freedom of Expression in Lebanon: Future threats and opportunities. [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

In this #BreadandNet 2020 session, Aya Majzoub from Human Rights Watch and Ayman Mhanna from Samir Kassir Foundation, moderated by Mohamad Najem from SMEX, discuss freedom of speech in Lebanon. There have been no new laws to govern speech in Lebanon, but so many things have changed in freedom of expression. One major change is

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Designing Leafcutter [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

In October 2019 activists and journalists in Lebanon were facing threats, account suspensions, devices being hacked and censorship. That’s why SMEX opened a telephone line for people to reach out for help. In this session of #Breadandnet2020, Operations Manager Lucie Doumanian and Technology Unit Lead Samar Halal talk to Principal Cybersecurity Operations Engineer at MITRE

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From a Notification to a Movement: Exploring a MENA Activism Toolbox [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

The session demystifies online transformation leadership in the civil society by introducing online tools and modules that can be used to understand a given context, organize activist and volunteer groups and bring new mediums to the advancement of civil rights causes in critical contexts; especially where access to the internet may be limited due to

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Taking your Face2Face Workshop Online: How-to Guide [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

In this #BreadandNet 2020 session Britta Senn from DW Academie presents 5 steps to convert your Face to Face workshop into an interactive online workshop and shares some tools that make digital training easier. The workshop ends with a Q&A session and a discussion of e-training experiences.

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Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

In this session, Jillian C. York discusses her book “Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism,” while keeping in mind these two crucial questions: How do companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our democracy? And what happens to free speech under surveillance capitalism? The internet once promised to be a place

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I know nothing about computers [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

In this #BreadandNet 2020 session Dima Jweihan from The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), Nahla Hamdani from WeYouth, and Lina Jarrous from Seeds discuss the online presence of civil society organizations and cyberlaw, moderated by Lisa Vermeer.  Today, almost all civil society organizations (CSOs) have an online presence. This presence takes different shapes: through

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Domain Name System in Times of COVID 19 [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

In this #BreadandNet 2020 session, Fahd Batayneh, ICANN’s Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager (Middle East) explains the domain name system; i.e. top-level domains, domain names, and root-servers. Batayneh shares some statistics on the surge in DNS queries during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Then, he discusses the work undertaken by the domain name industry when it comes to

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Bread&Net 2020nline | Corporates, Governments and the Pandemic: Threats to Digital Freedom

Bread&Net 2020nline welcomed more than 800 participants from 32 countries on Hopin this year! Over four eventful days, we held 63 diverse sessions, with over 100 speakers who joined us to share their valuable insights. Totalitarian Arab regimes, monopolized telecommunications infrastructures, armies of bots promoting fake news, increased surveillance disguised as COVID-19 tracking apps, among

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