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Agenda - Palestine Digital Activism Forum 2018

Last update: 15.1.2018

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9:30 Arrival & Registration
 

10:00 Welcoming: 7amleh Board Member - Mustafa Kabalwi

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10:15 - 11:15  Panel Discussion 1: Protection of Digital Rights in Palestine: The Role of Civil Society

• Moderator: Duaa Qreea, Executive Director of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organisations Network (PNGO)

• Omar Shakir - Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine Director

  • Violations of Palestinian (Digital) Rights: Who’s Responsible?

• Samer Sharkawe - General Manager, Supervisor on Human Rights and Gender Units in the Palestinian Ministry of Justice

  • Commitment of the Palestinian Authority to International Conventions on Digital Rights

• Dr. Issam Abdeen - Legal Advisor and Head of Regional and Local Advocacy Unit at Al-Haq

  • Reflections on the Cybercrime Law and its Impact on Palestinian Digital Rights

• Mahmoud Hassan - Lawyer at Addameer

  • Israeli Violations of Palestinian Digital Rights

11:15 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:30 Panel Discussion 2: Global Trends in Digital Rights: From International Perspectives to Palestinian Reality

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• Moderator: Nadim Nashif, 7amleh director

• Sebastian Mondial - Data & Security specialist

  • Ethics in Automated Decision Making (ADM)​

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• Thawab Shibly - YouTube Policy Specialist for Google

  • The Importance of Context when Documenting Conflict & Violence

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• Joshua Franco - Researcher/Advisor on Technology and Human Rights at Amnesty International

  • Human Rights Law's Responsibilities in the Light of New Technologies

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• Aibhinn Kelleher - Facebook Product Policy Manager

  • Facebook's Policy of Moderating Content in Conflict Areas​

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• Anriette Esterhuysen - Director of Global Policy and Strategy, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)​

  • How to Integrate Digital Rights into Human Rights Mechanisms

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12:30 - 13:30 Panel Discussion 3: Digital Activism for a Progressive and Just Palestine: Inspiring and Innovative Use of Digital Tools

• Moderator: Remie Abi-Farrage - Youth Active Citizenship Advisor, Oxfam

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• Dr. Amal Nazzal - Researcher & Lecturer at Birzeit University

  • Digital Ethnography: Research into Digital Activism

• Farah Mustaklem - Representative of Palestine in the Levant Wikimedia User Group

  • Wikipedia and it’s Importance in Palestine

• Khaldi Twins - Video Bloggers from Gaza

  • We are the Narratives of Our Story​

• Derrar Ghanem - Co-Founder at Build Palestine

  • The Strength of the Space in the Virtual Sphere: Build Palestine Experience

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13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
 

14:30       Workshops

• You and Your Digital Privacy

  • Dalia Othman, Digital Privacy Trainer

• Social Media Management for Nonprofit Organisations

  • Izzy al-Zaytawi, IMEU

• Crowdfunding (in Arabic)

  • Derrar Ghanem, Build Palestine

• Re-thinking Digital Security: From the Individual to Organisations

  • Edin Omanovic, Privacy International

  • Ed Geraghty, Privacy International

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• Filming for Evidence with your Mobile Phone

  • Raja Althaibani, Witness

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• Understanding and Defending your Media from Content Moderation

  • Dia Kayyali, Witness

• Strength in Numbers: Managing Campaigns and Mobilisation for NGOs

  • Angus Wong - SumOfUs.org

• Photography as a social movement

  • Mohamed Badarne. - Photographer, Trainer, and Activist

17:00   Summary and Closing the Forum

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17:30    End

The forum will serve as a platform to explore these Applications:

• Liyla and The Shadows of war

• Palestine Blood Bank

• eyeWitness to Atrocities