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Human Rights and Digital Technologies

By humanrightsathome

The Committee on Human Rights of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a Symposium on Human Rights and Digital Technologies on September 19, 2019.  Registration information is available here.  The proceedings will be held at the National Academies’ headquarters in Washington, D.C., and will be available via live webcast.  The keynote will be delivered by David Kaye, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression.

Here’s the organizers’ description of the symposium:

Digital technologies offer promising means of anticipating, analyzing, and responding to serious human rights concerns, but they also present human rights challenges. The Committee on Human Rights of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will gather experts in the fields of human rights and technology to examine these challenges and to explore ways of leveraging digital innovation in a manner that helps protect internationally recognized human rights.