{"id":23496,"date":"2023-12-21T09:57:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tedic.org\/?p=23496"},"modified":"2025-02-07T15:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:36:59","slug":"international-incidence-building-bridges-at-the-regional-and-international-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tedic.org\/en\/international-incidence-building-bridges-at-the-regional-and-international-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"International advocacy – Building bridges at the regional and international levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Incidence at local<\/u><\/a>, regional and international levels for the generation of public policies based on scientific evidence is part of our work agenda, which, based on an approach to global issues that allows us to articulate and connect with other actors, transcends the borders of Paraguay. The objective of these spaces is to echo our reality in other latitudes and to learn about other realities in order to understand our own better<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognising the importance of occupying spaces at the local and international levels, throughout this year, we participated in workshops, roundtables, international forums, virtual and in-person presentations, and many other events in order to meet these objectives. Continuing with the international advocacy work carried out in the first 4 months of the year<\/u><\/a>, in this blog, we invite you to know a summary of the extensive journey of our quest to reconcile the advancement of digitisation with a human rights perspective within the international agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presence in the leading Internet governance forums and events.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Both RightsCon and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) stand out as the preeminent events in our Internet governance advocacy agenda, central to our fight for respect for digital rights. RightsCon, known for its focus on human rights in the digital realm, provides a unique platform for activists, technology experts, policymakers, civil society and academia to collaborate in formulating strategies to address the current challenges of our time. On the other hand, the IGF, organised by the United Nations, brings together a wide range of global stakeholders to discuss critical issues affecting the Internet and its governance. TEDIC believes that both events are crucial because they not only facilitate the creation of inclusive and human rights-centred policies but also provide a space for us as civil society to exert influence to ensure that the Internet remains a safe, open and accessible space for all people, reflecting diversity and plurality from the Global South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RightsCon 2023 – June 2023, San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After three years of virtual editions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the RightsCon<\/u><\/a> global conference returned to a face-to-face format in Costa Rica, a country noted for its rich biodiversity in Latin America. The selection of Costa Rica as this year’s venue is significant, especially because a central and emerging theme of the conference was the critical assessment of the negative impact of the technology industry on the climate crisis, thus raising a necessary look at environmental justice and intersectionality between digital rights and sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RightsCon Costa Rica 2023, in its twelfth edition<\/u><\/a>, marked a significant milestone in the history of the conference since its inception in 2011, being the largest conference to date in both the number of sessions and participants. With 8,332 participants in attendance, including 2,871 face-to-face and 5,466 online, the conference brought together representatives from 174 countries and 689 organisations, although several people were unable to attend<\/u><\/a> meaning that key voices from the Global Majority, including people from Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as well as at-risk communities facing conflict, crisis, repression, criminalisation and marginalisation around the world, were absent. This expansion, with its complications, reflects the growing importance of RightsCon in the global digital rights agenda, where crucial issues affecting the future of technology and human rights are being discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Participation in RightsCon Costa Rica 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Participation in RightsCon Costa Rica 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Participation in RightsCon Costa Rica 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From TEDIC, we participated in person, being in charge of 8 sessions with the participation of Maricarmen Sequera and Eduardo Carrillo, co-directors of the organisation, and Araceli Ramirez, coordinator of the communication area of the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the eight organised sessions, there were other discussion tables and participation in different spaces for dialogue and training with the aim of influencing the regulatory and technological policy agendas at the global and regional levels, establishing new alliances and offering critical approaches to evaluate the various international agreements under discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sessions organised:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Session 1<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/strong> \u201cInternet Service Providers and Data Privacy Rights: Challenges, Trends and Ways Forward in Latin America and Spain\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Session 2<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/strong> \u201cSeeking Multilateralism in the Platform Economy: Strategies for Promoting Workers’ Rights in the Global South\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Session 3<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/strong> \u201c Reclaiming and Building Workers’ Power in an Era of Workplace Surveillance”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Session 4<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/strong> \u201c Dialoguing on inter-American norms to build public and democratic debate online.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Session 5<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/strong> \u201cNon-discrimination by design: how can digital work platforms combat gender-based bias\/violence?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Session 6<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/strong> \u201cData and Action: Using Data Analytics for Incident Response and Threat Prevention\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Session 7<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/strong> \u201cNeither China nor Silicon Valley: a regulatory initiative from Latin America and the Caribbean.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Session 8<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/strong> \u00abF*ck it, we\u2019ll do it ourselves: building products to prevent and counter gender-based violence online.\u00bb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    In addition, throughout the week of the event, we participated in several private meetings and discussion sessions. One of these meetings convened us as a member organisation of the AlSur<\/u><\/a> consortium, which brought together more than 35 representatives of civil society and governments of the region – including Chile, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Bolivia – and the participation of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in the private session “Building a Latin American agenda for digital security”<\/u><\/a>. In this session, we debated and explored the need to build a Latin American agenda on digital security, a debate that we have been following for some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Team ALSUR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    IGF 2023 \u2013 October 2023, Kyoto, Japan<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    In its eighteenth edition, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was held in October this year in Kyoto, Japan. Since its inception in 2006, the IGF has been an annual space for multiple stakeholders, including governments, businesses, civil society and academia, to discuss relevant Internet issues such as the upcoming presentation of the UN Global Digital Compact (GDC) document, the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, the regulation of platforms, the narrowing of gaps in the use and access of technologies and the need for sustainable approaches to the climate crisis. TEDIC has participated in this event since 2014<\/strong><\/u><\/a>. This year, Eduardo Carrillo and Maricarmen Sequera were present as co-directors of the organisation, and were in charge of the following sessions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n