[IRPCoalition] Public Debate 18th May: Activism Behind the Screen

[Marianne Franklin]

Dear all

Apologies (in advance) for any cross-posting. For anyone in London
around 18th May, all welcome to the third edition of /Defending Human
Rights in a Digital Age. /In this debate, entitled */Activism Behind the
Screen/*, participants consider how human rights activism can impact on
internet design and its day-to-day running. These decisions take place
behind the screen in organizations such as the Internet Corporation of
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet Engineering Taskforce
(IETF), or the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3).

Panellists will focus on ICANN for the most part, the US-incorporated
entity that controls the Domain Name System that is a cornerstone of how
the internet works, and people find their way around the web. ICANN has
just completed its transition to a “privatized, multistakeholder"
governance structure. At the same time activists have been developing a
range of human rights agendas from within the organization's various
working groups.

The aim of this debate is to introduce these architects of the internet
to a Goldsmiths audience; to discuss how human rights matter for what
they do.

More information at https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=10764
Videos and articles relating to these events at
https://www.opendemocracy.net/hri

-- 
Marianne Franklin, PhD
Professor of Global Media and Politics
Convener: Global Media & Transnational Communications Program
http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-global-media-transnational-communications/
Goldsmiths University of London
Department of Media & Communications
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Tel: +44 207 9197072
<m.i.franklin at gold.ac.uk>
@GloComm
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/franklin/
Chair: Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)
Co-Chair: Internet Rights & Principles Coalition (IRPC)

Editor: Human Rights and the Internet Series, openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/hri

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