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03 Jun 2019
Report
Cómo respetar la privacidad y libertad de expresión siendo una PYME tecnológica en México
Esta guía fue diseñada para contribuir a que pequeñas y medianas empresas de tecnología respeten la privacidad y libertad de expresión en sus productos y servicios. La guía cubre: El argumento de negocios para respetar la privacidad y libertad de expresión siendo una PYME tecnológica; Qué significan estos…
16 May 2019
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GPD gives evidence at UK Parliament hearing on democracy and freedom of expression
On Wednesday GPD’s Head of Legal, Richard Wingfield, gave evidence to the UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights on the subject of “Democracy, free speech and freedom of association”. He was joined at the hearing by Jodie Ginsberg of Index on Censorship, and Professor Jacob Rowbottom of Oxford…
14 May 2019
Report
How to Respect Privacy and Free Expression as a Tech SME in Kenya
This guide is designed to help small and medium tech enterprises ensure that they are respecting privacy and free expression in your products and services. It covers: The business case for respecting privacy and free expression as a tech SME; What these rights mean in legal terms, and…
02 Apr 2019
Blog post
The case for and against a binding treaty on business and human rights
Hardly a week passes without a new revelation of adverse impacts on human rights by tech companies – from data breaches to problematic decisions over content. What can we do when this happens? The pathways to…
27 Nov 2018
Blog post
Initial thoughts on Facebook’s “Blueprint for Content Governance and Enforcement”
As the world’s largest social media platform, and one of its largest companies, it’s not surprising that Facebook attracts a great deal of scrutiny over its actions, and, in particular, how it moderates content on its platform. Criticism comes from many angles; with the platform…
16 Oct 2018
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Joint statement on online content regulation from GPD, Index on Censorship, and Open Rights Group
Global Partners Digital, Index on Censorship and Open Rights Group are concerned about recent government proposals and announcements related to the regulation of online content, which could have significant adverse impacts on human rights, and particularly freedom of expression. It is well established and accepted that human rights…
27 Sep 2018
news
The EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation: First thoughts
A group of online platforms, social networks, advertisers and advertising industry bodies, brought together by the European Commission, has this week agreed upon a new Code of Practice on Disinformation, setting out a series of commitments that they will undertake to tackle disinformation. While many are positive, or at…
19 Sep 2018
Blog post
Data Protection on the Ground (#3): Brazil’s law
In Chapter 4 of GPD’s recently published Travel Guide to the Digital World: Data protection for human rights defenders, we outline a set of key questions which can be used to determine whether a data protection regime is rights-respecting. In this mini-series, Data Protection on the Ground, we apply…
03 Sep 2018
Blog post
Can National Action Plans make tech companies rights-respecting?
Last month, several online platforms made a collective decision to remove content by Infowars, a conspiracy theory platform associated with the far-right, on the grounds of hate speech and incitement to violence. This decision, while welcomed in many quarters, points to a troubling…
14 Jun 2018
Report
Organisational Development Framework
In the human rights and digital policy space, where large corporations and state interests dominate, a strong and effective civil society voice is critical. But a movement is only as strong as the organisations which drive it. …
30 May 2018
news
GPD’s response to David Kaye’s report on Platform Content Regulation
Earlier this week, David Kaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, published his latest report to the UN Human Rights Council: “A Human Rights Approach to Platform Content Regulation”. This report…
24 Apr 2018
Blog post
Microsoft’s Tech Accord – and what it tells us about the cyber state of play
Last week, Microsoft and 33 other leading tech companies unveiled their Cybersecurity Tech Accord – an agreement on a broad set of principles committing the signatories to “protecting users and customers everywhere”. The introduction to the Accord makes its intention clear: it…
09 Apr 2018
Report
How to respect privacy and free expression as a tech SME in South Africa
This guide is designed to help small and medium tech enterprises ensure that they are respecting privacy and free expression in their products and services. It covers: The business case for respecting privacy and free expression as a tech SME; What these rights mean in legal terms, and the specific obligations placed…
09 Mar 2018
Report
Framework for Multistakeholder Cyber Policy Development
Cybersecurity, and the threats associated with it, is a complex policy area. This complexity demands approaches to policy development which are inclusive, expertise driven, and which engage a broad range of stakeholders – a need which has been recognised by several influential bodies, including the Freedom…
20 Dec 2017
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Content regulation in the digital age: GPD’s recommendations for human rights-respecting responses
In September, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, launched a consultation on ‘Content Regulation in the Digital Age’. The consultation, which closed today, examines two broad issues: the standards that social and search platforms apply to…
27 Sep 2017
multimedia
In beta, episode 6: who gets to decide when online content is removed?
GPD’s executive director Charles Bradley talks to Emma Llansó, Director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) about the role of intermediaries like Facebook and Twitter, and how growing pressure on them to remove user content might affect our freedom of expression.
12 Sep 2017
Report
Travel Guide to the Digital World: Encryption policy for human rights defenders
Everyone who uses the internet depends on encryption. It makes online banking and shopping possible, allows us to communicate securely, and facilitates the exercise of many human rights. Despite these obvious benefits, encryption has always had its opponents – and they are becoming more active. In legislatures and…
29 Aug 2017
Report
Navigating Human Rights in the Digital Environment: the ICDPPC
Navigating human rights in the digital environment is a series of tools aimed at helping human rights defenders engage effectively in three key policy forums. The second tool focuses on the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC), showing how it works, who the different actors and stakeholders are, and when,…
23 Jun 2017
news
GPD publishes new paper on distributed internet governance
Across the world, increased internet adoption has radically altered people’s lives – creating the need for new methods of internet governance that are more effective, flexible, inclusive, and legitimate. Conversations about reforming the internet governance ecosystem are already taking place at the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation,…
09 Jun 2017
Report
Navigating Human Rights in the Digital Environment: the G20
Navigating Human Rights in the Digital Environment is a series of tools aimed at helping human rights defenders engage effectively in three key policy forums. The first tool focuses on the Group of Twenty (or G20) process, showing how it works, who the different actors and stakeholders are, and when,…
02 May 2017
news
Introducing our Strategic Advocacy Canvas
GPD is excited to unveil its Strategic Advocacy Canvas, a new tool to help human rights defenders build more effective advocacy strategies. The Canvas is a highly editable, adaptable tool, designed to suit a range of advocacy needs. Some might find it useful as…
02 May 2017
Report
Strategic Advocacy Canvas
The Strategic Advocacy Canvas is a tool to help human rights defenders build more effective advocacy strategies. The Canvas is designed to suit a range of advocacy needs. You can use it as a tool for experimentation and testing out ideas; for example, as a way…
14 Dec 2016
multimedia
Cyber policy on the ground, episode 1: conversation with Nanjira Sambuli
GPD’s Lead Strategist Matthew Shears discusses a new mapping report on the cyber policy landscape in Kenya with its author, Nanjira Sambuli.
02 Dec 2016
news
Mapping the cyber policy landscape in Chile, India, Indonesia, and Kenya
GPD today launches a new series of mapping resources to help civil society actors navigate the cyber policy landscape in four countries: Chile, India, Indonesia, and Kenya The series, entitled Mapping the Cyber Policy Landscape, identifies the key cyber actors, institutions, legislation and…
26 Sep 2016
news
New study published on multistakeholder governance
Since the internet’s inception, people have been grappling with the question of how it should be governed. In recent years, these discussions have increasingly centered on the advantages and disadvantages of multistakeholderism—referring, in the words of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, to a model ‘in which affected stakeholders who…
29 Jul 2016
multimedia
How to engage in cyber policy
Are you a human rights defender interested in cyber policy? GPD’s video training series, ‘How to engage in cyber policy’, may be of interest. The series – available free on YouTube – aims to help human rights defenders develop the tools, skills and knowledge they need to engage effectively…
29 Jul 2016
news
Watch our new online series on cyber policy for human rights defenders
We’re delighted to unveil our new online training series: “How to engage in cyber policy: tools for human rights defenders”. The series is a core part of the training component of GPD’s cyber capacity building programme (CCB),…
28 Jul 2016
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Participants selected for GPD’s cyber policy training programme
We’re pleased to announce that 48 human rights defenders from Africa, Asia and Latin America have been selected to participate in our cyber policy training programme – a core element of GPD’s cyber capacity building programme.
30 Jun 2016
Report
Using the Universal Periodic Review for human rights online
The guide is designed to help human rights defenders working on human rights online navigate the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, with resources and case studies of real life advocacy to help inform and structure engagement. It also provides examples of how the UPR has been used for human rights online,…
30 Jun 2016
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Introducing our new guide to the UPR for human rights defenders
For human rights defenders working to advance human rights online, UN mechanisms can seem intimidating. They’re often complex, unwieldy, distant and dominated by states – and what space exists for non-governmental actors is often carefully limited. All these things are true of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the UN’s process…
14 Jun 2016
news
GPD announces new leadership and advisory board
Global Partners Digital (GPD) today announces some key organisational changes. On 1 July, Andrew Puddephatt will be moving out of his current position as GPD’s Executive Director to oversee the organisation’s new Advisory Board. The Advisory Board, a collective of globally recognised thought leaders,…
18 May 2016
Report
Travel Guide to the Digital World: Cybersecurity policy for human rights defenders
The rapid digitisation of human life has made cybersecurity a key priority for policymakers worldwide. In a context marked by contested definitions of what cybersecurity is and how it should be achieved, it is critical for human rights defenders to understand the situation, actors and issues at stake in order…
13 May 2016
news
GPD’s Head of Programmes selected to join UN’s Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation
GPD’s Head of Programmes Lea Kaspar has been selected to join the UN’s Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC) as one of its five civil society representatives. Lea was put forward for this role by the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) out of a shortlist of 25…
15 Dec 2014
Report
NETmundial: reflections from Brazil, India and Kenya
The NETmundial conference was a seminal event in the 2014 internet governance landscape. The multistakeholder meeting, convened by the Brazilian government on the back of the post-Snowden frenzy, momentarily turned São Paulo into a Mecca of decade-old internet governance debates; simultaneously, a beacon of hope for reformists and revolutionaries, and…
03 Jun 2014
Report
Travel Guide to the Digital World: Internet policy and governance for human rights defenders
The internet is the defining technology of our age, transforming relationships in every aspect of our lives, from commerce to politics, from education to art. With these transformations come new opportunities, and also new threats. How the internet operates and is governed affects the rights of users – a new…
02 Oct 2013
Report
The importance of self regulation of the media in upholding Freedom of Expression
The media is a site which permits the free exchange of ideas and opinion necessary in a democracy and which is therefore deserving of the highest protection and freedom from state interference. It is also a social actor in its own rights, whose choices about whether or how to cover…
05 Mar 2013
Report
Drafting a positive agenda: human rights and the internet infrastructure
There is now a broad consensus that the human rights system that applies offline should apply online. However, to really understand and shape the human rights environment online it is necessary to go beyond looking at the content it carries and the controls which are applied to that content –…