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SUMMARY:Cyberlaw and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:After two decades of little direct legislation of the internet\
 , national laws and related court decisions meant to govern cyberspace are
  rapidly proliferating worldwide. They are becoming building blocks in new
  legal frameworks that will shape the evolution of Internet governance and
  policymaking for years to come.In the Global South and particularly under
  repressive regimes\, these frameworks can be imposed with little regard f
 or human rights obligations and without a full understanding of the techno
 logies and processes they regulate or their implications for the preservat
 ion of the core values of the internet: interoperability\, universality\, 
 and free expression and the free flow of information.This panel brings tog
 ether practitioners from five international organizations monitoring the d
 evelopment of legislation and case law related to cyberspace to discuss th
 e implications for the future of human rights online.PanelistsModeratorRob
 ert Faris is the research director at the Berkman Klein Center where he co
 ntributes and provides oversight to research at the center. His research i
 ncludes the study of digital communication mechanisms by civil society org
 anizations and social movements\, and the emergence and impact of digitall
 y-mediated collective action\, as well as the influence of networked digit
 al technologies on democracy and governance and the evolving role of new m
 edia in political change.Dr. Hawley Johnson is the Project Manager for Col
 umbia Global Freedom of Expression\, an initiative to advance the understa
 nding of international and national norms and institutions that best prote
 ct the free flow of information and expression in an interconnected global
  community. Hawley has over twelve years of experience in international me
 dia development both academically and professionally\, with a focus on Eas
 tern Europe. She recently worked with the award winning Organized Crime an
 d Corruption Reporting Project to launch the Investigative Dashboard (ID)\
 , a joint effort with Google Ideas offering specialized databases and rese
 arch tools for journalists in emerging democracies.Robert Muthuri is curre
 ntly a Research Fellow – ICT at the Centre for IP and IT (CIPIT) at the 
 Strathmore School of Law. He is a Legal Knowledge Engineer working at the 
 intersection of legal theory and AI. Robert is an Advocate of the High Cou
 rt of Kenya who\, with the conviction that technology had a lot more to of
 fer the legal domain\, further pursued a career in legal informatics. Juan
  Carlos Lara is a Chilean lawyer\, specializing in law and technology\, cu
 rrently working as the manager of the Public Policy and Research team at D
 erechos Digitales\, a non governmental organisation based in Santiago de C
 hile that promotes and defends digital rights in Latin America. He has wor
 ked as a consultant in intellectual property for public and private entiti
 es\, has been a research assistant at the Centre of Studies in Cyber Law a
 t the University of Chile\, and is currently an LL.M. candidate at UC Berk
 eley. In Derechos Digitales\, he leads research and policy analysis on tec
 hnology and data privacy\, equality\, freedom of expression\, and access t
 o knowledge and human rights in online platforms.Gayatri Khandhadai is a l
 awyer with a background in international law and human rights\, internatio
 nal and regional human rights mechanisms\, research\, and advocacy. She pr
 eviously worked with national and regional human rights groups\, focusing 
 on freedom of expression. She coordinated the IMPACT — India\, Malaysia\
 , Pakistan Advocacy for Change through Technology — project with the Ass
 ociation for Progressive Communications. Her current focus is on digital r
 ights in Asia with specific emphasis on freedoms of expression\, assembly\
 , and association on the Internet.Jessica Dheere is co-founder of the Beir
 ut–based digital rights research\, training\, and advocacy organization 
 SMEX (smex.org) and a 2018-19 research fellow at the Berkman Klein Center 
 for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She is also incubating dir
 ector of the recently launched CYRILLA Collaborative (cyrilla.org)\, a glo
 bal initiative that maps and analyzes the emergence and evolution of legal
  frameworks in digitally networked environments through open research\, da
 ta models\, and databases.
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LOCATION:23 Everett Street \, Cambridge (United States of America) 
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