Power Dynamics and Inclusion in Virtual Meetings
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At the end of 2023, we hosted our very first Digital Policy Leadership Forum. The virtual half-day event took place on 5 December, and gathered more than 60 participants from across Europe, and beyond, centered around the themes of Policy Leadership Opportunities, Needs, and Visions for 2024.
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Our 19th annual Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland, California will be taking place on November 16-18.
This three-day gathering is designed for everyone from passionate grassroots activists to radical software developers. It brings together participants from around the world to collaborate, share knowledge, build relationships, and collectively envision the future of free and open technology to support social justice efforts and movement building.
Aspiration has worked with and in support of information security trainers and capacity builders in the human rights sector for over a decade.
We have witnessed the growth of this community of practice from local to international levels, appreciating the opportunity to observe how the outcomes of the work of hundreds of practitioners worldwide have had a critical impact on the security, sustainability and efficiency of human rights organizations and individual activists.
After leading Aspiration's Human Rights Technology Program for almost four years, I will move to a new professional adventure. From this month I will focus on new projects as a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, exploring how Internet infrastructure and human rights interconnect.
The stakeholders we interviewed widely agreed that taking a forward-looking and proactive approach to human rights technology would better enable modeling of future states of play.