Join us for the launch of a new report: “Scanning the Horizon: The Future of Digital Rights & Resilience in the Global Majority” on March 20, 2:00-3:30 PM UTC. This report provides a scoping of the key geopolitical, technological, and economic trends impacting our digital resilience ecosystem.
Building on the trends we highlighted in this report, join us in this conversation on how digital resilience organizations are strategically addressing two patterns: the increasing consolidation of infrastructure by a handful of big tech companies, and the changes in the funding landscape are affecting our ecosystem. In particular we will be addressing these main questions:
- How can civil society organizations working in the global majority respond to the increased consolidation of infrastructure by big tech?
- How can the global majority respond to changes in the funding ecosystem from a resilience perspective? What can organizations and communities do to prevent harsher impacts? What alternatives exist and can be leveraged in the global majority?
In this webinar we will hear from:
- Tanya Lockwood, Executive Director, Fundación Acceso, Costa Rica
- Juan M Casanueva, CEO and Co-founder, SocialTIC, Mexico
- Mohamed Najem, Executive Director, SMEX, Lebanon
- Nighat Dad, Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan
- Esra’a Al Shafei, Founder and Executive Director of Majal, Bahrain
- Nanjira Sambuli, Tech Policy Researcher and Analyst, Kenya
- Juan Ortiz Freuler, PhD candidate & Wallis Annenberg Fellow at USC, USA
Juan Ortiz Freuler, the author of the report, to give a short presentation about these trends and the methodology of producing the report. This session will be facilitated by Lidija Sabados, Critica’s Head of Programs.
JOIN US on March 20!
The report is currently only available in English but will be translated into other languages.
The webinar will be conducted in English, but we hope to organize other discussions in the coming months in other languages.