Join us online to discuss digital resistances, reproductive rights and internet shutdowns.
RightsCon starts next week, January 24-27, 2025. Some of our colleagues will travel to Taipei. Others will participate online. DDP is co-hosting three sessions:
Digital resistances in the Francophone world
DDP + LabDelta. February 26, 08:45 – 09:45 CST.
French-speaking activists working on digital rights are generally isolated and under-represented at global conferences. This dialogue is an invitation to get to know the initiatives, discourses and postures that seek to challenge, subvert, refuse or transform the dominant digital infrastructures and platforms within a political horizon of social emancipation in the francophone context.
Building digital resistance networks for reproductive rights
SocialTIC + DDP + ONG Amaranta. February 26, 16:00 – 17:00 CST.
In Latin America, activists and defenders of sexual and reproductive rights, especially those supporting abortion access, face persistent digital threats despite years of digital security training, such as misinformation, identity theft, harassment, surveillance, content removal, and reduced reach, increasingly in response to the repressive and conservative contexts where they operate.
In this session, our goal is for diverse organizations specializing in technology and digital rights, activists, and groups defending sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America to use this space to identify the challenges we face today to ensure security in the digital environment and start devising strategies to better mitigate them in the future:
- Share findings on the main detected threats.
- Adapt measures to needs and contexts without diminishing their scope.
- Share documentation methodologies.
- Work together in gathering evidence and reducing the impact of attacks against sexual and reproductive rights. –
- Generate a collaborative front that can provide more effective and timely attention.
At the end of the session, we will look for ways to collaborate to improve these supports in the logic of complementing efforts.
Why keep documenting internet shutdowns? Experiences from Latin America
Fundación Karisma + DDP. February 26, 12:15 – 13:15 CST.
Internet shutdowns and disruptions are growing in number for multiple causes: Attempts to control access to information, lack of maintainenance of the infrastructure, organized crime interventions or climate crisis events, among others. How are we measuring Internet shutdowns in Latin America and the Caribbean? What common methodologies can we agree on to share information, identify trends and develop redundancy and circumvention strategies? In this session, we will share Internet shutdown documentation experiences and invite participants to contribute to the collective effort of developing accessible methodologies for distributed documentation. Although this proposal is based on the work we have developed in Latin America, we believe it can be useful in a broader perspective for other regions that also experience this problem.
