<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp193d4939yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><div style=""><span id="ydpb016edfbdocs-internal-guid-dd11b01a-7fff-1a4f-bc4d-f38fbf24393b" style=""><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9872; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: inherit;" size="3">Dear IRPC community,</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">We hope this email finds you well. Below we present recent IRPC updates and opportunities. </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">IGF 2022: </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">IGF 2022 is around the corner! Mark your calendars for IRPC sessions at IGF 2022:</font></span></p><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: inherit;"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Day 2: </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13.50 - </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DC Main Session: Our Digital Future: How IGF Dynamic Coalitions support the Global Digital Compact</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The IRPC will be joining the panel in </span><span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the second part of the session:</span><span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “</span><span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The contribution of DC priorities, activities and outcomes to the UN Secretary-General’s Global Digital Compact (GDC) and the WSIS+20 Review” </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;"> </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">Day 3 </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11.15 - [DC]</span><a href="https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2022-irpc-access-participation-as-enablers-of-digital-human-rights" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Access & participation as enablers of digital human right</a><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17.30 - [TH #96]</span><a href="https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2022-town-hall-96-safeguarding-human-rights-with-a-free-and-open-internet" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Safeguarding human rights with a free and open internet</a></font></p><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are at the IGF onsite, don’t forget to visit IRPC’s booth at the</span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> IGF Village. </span><br></div><p style="font-size: 16px;"></p><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: inherit;"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">Opportunities: </font></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">The IRPC is co-organizing an in-person workshop, the </span><span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Quantum Constitutionalism Workshop: Law and Governance for the Quantum Age</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> that will take place in </span><span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Bremen, Germany on November 7-8, 2022. </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">If you are in the area, please let the organizers know through the</span><a href="https://www.quantumconstitutionalism.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> website</a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines (such as computer science, law, political science, etc.) to develop a research agenda focusing on the future rollout of quantum technologies such as quantum cryptography and the impact these </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">might</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> have on human rights. Outputs will be shared through this newsletter.</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">The Center for AI and Digital Policy is accepting applications for </span><a href="https://www.caidp.org/global-academic-network/ai-policy-clinic/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AI Policy Clinic</a></b></font><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>’s Spring 2023 cohort.</b> Interested candidates may fill out this </span><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CAIDPSpring23" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">form </a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>by November 15, 2022</i>. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-setdir="false"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="3" style="background-color: inherit;"><b>SMEX </b></font><b>announced an inaugural </b></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://smex.org/2023-smex-fellowship-on-technology-and-human-rights/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fellowship on Technology and Human Rights</a></span></font><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">B</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">ilingual (Arabic/English) applicants from or with significant ties to the MENA region and interested in research and/or mobilisation on such topics as freedom of expression, digital surveillance, Internet shutdowns, business and human rights, climate change and technology and so forth<i> are encouraged to apply by December 11, 2022.</i> This part-time and paid fellowship is envisaged to begin in early 2023. </span></p></li></ul><div style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Best regards,</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Meri Baghdasaryan</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">(on behalf of IRPC Steering Committee) </span></font></div></span></div><br></div></div></body></html>