The 2021 was a year of reunion: we returned to face-to-face activities after a long period without seeing each other. Although we love virtuality and continue maintaining a hybrid way of working, we missed building communities outside digital spaces. In 2021, we primarily focused on thinking about and strengthening safer and more equitable digital areas […]
The repeated instances of violence and threats from government institutions and fundamentalist or conservative groups towards TLGBIQ+ activist groups in Paraguay are taken to the digital world through organized online attacks, harassment, creation of fake profiles, extortion, theft and manipulation of information, and many other dynamics that violate their rights to appear and express themselves […]
Memoria de actividades 2020
At the beginning of this year, the Comisión Nacional de la Competencia – CONACOM (National Competition Commission) published its Opinion D/RD No. 01/2021 on “Regulation of transportation services for people in vehicles hired through digital applications” (CONACOM, 2021). It analyzes and makes recommendations regarding the current regulatory framework of the MUV, Uber, and Bolt apps […]
In our day to day, we make use of heuristics (mental shortcuts that allow us to make decisions, pass judgment or solve problems quickly) to navigate the environment around us reducing our cognitive load, so as to be able to dedicate it to other actions that require more attention and reasoning. Heuristics also apply when […]
In previous articles, we have analyzed how the pandemic has increased the chances of human rights violations to occur. As an example, we can mention the violation of the rights to privacy and to freedom of expression through mass surveillance carried out with the help of new intrusive technologies. In this article, however, we will […]
