With satisfaction and joy, we held the closing of the Human Rights and Technology Bootcamp 2026, the second edition of this training space driven by TEDIC in partnership with Amnesty International Paraguay, with the support of Diakonía and funding from the European Union.
Through this Bootcamp, we seek to create a space for reflection and training to promote critical thinking and practical skills to engage in urgent debates related to technology, freedom of expression, privacy, artificial intelligence, and gender online.
This edition was aimed at human rights activists and defenders in Paraguay and achieved a record number of applications, with 117 submissions, the highest figure since we began this initiative, confirming the growing interest of Paraguayan civil society in understanding and engaging in debates about technology and human rights.
The training sessions consisted of 9 intensive workshops held during the month of February. These workshops featured talks by experts in digital rights with extensive experience in the field, and were accompanied by spaces for debate and discussion with the participants.
This stage was followed by a two-month process of virtual meetings and asynchronous exchanges, in which the participants worked on writing their articles with the support of personalized mentoring provided by the TEDIC team.
Key topics and panelists
During the training process, key topics at the intersection of human rights and technology were addressed, such as:
- How does the Internet work? Led by Maricarmen Sequera (TEDIC)
- Privacy and personal data protection. Led by Veridiana Alimonti (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Freedom of expression and content moderation. Led by Amalia Toledo (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Foundations of artificial intelligence (AI) from a human rights perspective. Led by Beatriz Busaniche (Fundación Vía Libre)
- Technology-facilitated gender-based violence. Led by Jazmín Ruíz Díaz (TEDIC)
- Digital security for human rights defenders. Led by Lupa (TEDIC)
- Indicators and risks in AI implementation. Led by Maricarmen Sequera (TEDIC)
- Ethical dilemmas and AI regulation in Latin America. Led by Lucía Camacho (Derechos Digitales)
- Writing articles with a human rights focus. Led by Jazmín Ruíz Díaz (TEDIC)
Where participants had the opportunity to interact with prominent digital rights experts, who shared their knowledge and experience in live sessions.
The videos of the sessions given by the panelists are available for anyone who wants to review or go deeper into the content covered during the training process, at the website
Writing to amplify
The Bootcamp’s training process allowed participants to develop original articles, with an approach notably shaped by their own activism, which made it possible to amplify digital rights issues from different angles and realities. From the rights of indigenous peoples to the role of women as creators of technology, not merely as users.
As a result of this process, the participants of Bootcamp 2026 produced the following articles, which are now available to read:
- Hate speech disguised as freedom of expression on X: the loosening of policies, a non-neutral algorithm, and its impact on vulnerable groups by Amín Basabe and Matías Ojeda
- The architecture of social media makes us hostile by Ash Hrycan
- Your data for sale: underground markets for personal data and the Paraguayan challenge by Daniel Torres
- When the algorithm decides: bias, discrimination, and privacy in the age of AI by Aurora Rojas
- When evidence becomes harm: the path of digital revictimization in Paraguay by Carolina Sales
- From fiber to pixel: weaving indigenous language into the digital fabric. Indigenous youth, intercultural communication, and freedom of expression by Elena Martínez
- AI, language, and labor precarity in Paraguay by Karen Vera
- Self-censored: how digital violence threatens to push us off the Internet and what we do to resist by Norma Flores
- Deepfakes: AI-generated synthetic images and gender-based violence, a legal perspective by Patricia González
- A selfie to collect your pension by Raquel Rivaldi
- Ethical governance of AI in Paraguay by Zunilda Medina and Silena Delgado
- AI: Ethical dilemmas and the perspective of human rights and indigenous peoples. Between historical exclusion and the opportunities of the future. by Ana Romero Flores
- Creators, not just users by Jessica Escobar
- Generative Artificial Intelligence: innovation, disinformation, and challenges for democracy by Daisy Hume and Gerardo Paciello
These articles reflect the diversity of perspectives and activism present in this edition of the Bootcamp, ranging from freedom of expression and content moderation, to the privacy of personal data, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, algorithmic bias, the rights of indigenous communities, and the labor precarity linked to artificial intelligence.
During the feedback sessions, participants noted that the writing process helped them identify issues related to their topic that are not being discussed, and that today, they are the ideal messengers to help the conversation about human rights and technology grow and be discussed in many other spaces. That exercise of researching, organizing, and building an argument led them to view with new eyes the problems they knew closely but had not been able to name or put on the agenda.
Thanks to this process, they were also able to become messengers. Today, those who took part in Bootcamp 2026 are well positioned to be ideal spokespeople, both in their own activist spaces and in the broader public debate.
Closing event at Amnesty International
The closing event and certificate ceremony for this process took place on Tuesday, June 30, at a presentation event held at the headquarters of Amnesty International Paraguay, where participants shared their articles and reflections with the public. This space enabled direct exchange between the authors, allied organizations, and people interested in these topics, strengthening community ties and the commitment to defending human rights in digital environments.
The Human Rights and Technology Bootcamp reaffirms TEDIC and Amnesty International Paraguay’s commitment to training activists and human rights defenders capable of critically engaging with the digital ecosystem, and lays the groundwork for further expanding this partnership in future editions.
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