The session “Ethical AI Advocacy for Civil Society in MENA” was held as part of Bread&Net 2022 in Beirut between 15 to 17 November. We hosted Qusai Suwan, Policy Officer at the Jordan Open Source Association, to discuss how civil society in the MENA region can advocate for rights-based AI policies. Suwan highlights the basics […]
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This year’s turnout at Bread&Net exceeded our expectations! More than 800 attendees took part in what became the largest convention on human rights in the Arabic-speaking region. In more than 100 sessions across 19 tracks, we addressed the most threatening challenges that restrict our rights and freedoms in the digital sphere. We also explored opportunities
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Bread&Net returned for the fourth time last week, from 23 to 26 November, welcoming around 1000 participants from 74 countries to take part in the regional discourse on digital rights and freedoms in the Arabic-speaking world. Over the course of four days, technologists, organizers, researchers, lawyers, and journalists brought forth their ideas, concerns, insights, and recommendations in
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We invite you to register for Bread&Net 2021, our yearly unconference on digital rights in its fourth edition, taking place from the 23th to the 26th of November. The event will cover a wide range of topics around policy advocacy in the Arabic-speaking countries, digital tools for a safer, more accessible internet, and regional community
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In this #BreadandNet 2020 session moderated by Accessnow’s Marwa Fatafta, Senior Legal Consultant Mohammad Moghabat, Joey Shia, and Etienne Manyier overview the laws pertaining to data protection in the Arab Speaking World and assess the privacy implications of these legal frameworks. According to Joey Shia, data protection laws in the Gulf are similar to the
In this #BreadandNet 2020 session Andreas Gebhard,co-founder and CEO of re:public, a festival for the digital society that was forced to cancel a physical event with more than 1.000 guest speakers around the world because of the COVID’s pandemic. Gebhard explains how they had to change their plans and go online and the challenges they
In this #BreadandNet 2020 session, the co-founder and CEO of re:publica Andreas Gebhard shares his experience since large scale events had to turn their strategy 100% in 2020. How will we meet in the future beyond Covid and borders? Are we facing a golden age of hybrid decentralized global gatherings? Time to reboot the connections
