{"id":24426,"date":"2024-05-31T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tedic.org\/?p=24426"},"modified":"2025-02-07T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:32:44","slug":"national-advocacy-first-semester-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tedic.org\/en\/national-advocacy-first-semester-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"National advocacy: First semester of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a world where digitization is advancing rapidly, the defense of human and digital rights in Paraguay becomes a fundamental task. Our national context presents unique challenges, from the protection of personal data to the fight against digital gender violence, through the need to guarantee freedom of expression and continue to promote the strengthening of our democracy. As an organization that fights for the defense of human rights in digital environments, one of our missions is to influence policies that protect and promote these rights from a transversal gender perspective, ensuring that technology benefits society equitably and fairly. During the first semester of 2024, we carried out various actions that reflect this commitment, working tirelessly to influence the national political agenda and ensure that our rights are respected and protected.
Below, we present a series of our advocacy actions for this first half of the year, divided into our main areas of work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personal data: We continue fighting for the sanction of a comprehensive Law for Paraguay<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During the month of February, in the third edition of the Crypto Summit of the South, which took place on the 20th of the month in Ciudad del Este, it gave us an excellent opportunity to bring our #MisDatosMisDerechos campaign to another city in Paraguay, being able to share and present several of the resources developed by our organization such as informative postcards about our research on cryptocurrencies and cryptomining and all our fanzines on personal data. Just two days later, on February 22, we participated in Meet and Greet de CiSOFT<\/a>, organized by the Paraguayan Chamber of the Software Industry in the city of Asunci\u00f3n. In this event, Eduardo Carrillo, co-director of TEDIC, Natalia Enciso, and Cecilia Abente, lawyers who are part of the Personal Data Coalition of Paraguay, shared and discussed with more than 15 people about the proposal for a personal data law in Paraguay, a legislation that we have been promoting for over 3 years together with the Personal Data Coalition. This event was another opportunity to clarify doubts and emphasize the urgent need for this legislation in our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Participantes<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

March was also a month of great activity. From March 11th to 20th, in collaboration with Klirk <\/a>and with the support of SEDECO<\/a>, ASEPY<\/a> and ADEC<\/a>, we presented a new online course aimed at entrepreneurs, companies, and organizations in Paraguay. This course focused on preparing stakeholders for the practical implementation of the Comprehensive Personal Data Protection Law, highlighting the importance of protecting both personal and business data. The course certified over 40 people from the private sector, government, and civil society on how to apply basic concepts of personal data protection to improve user experiences that generate greater trust in their clients. The importance of this course is magnified in a national context plagued by cases of cybersecurity breaches, such as the data leak of the national police<\/a> in mid-2023 and the incident with TIGO<\/a> in early January 2024, where sensitive data of thousands of people were exposed. We believe that these are just a few examples highlighting the urgency of strengthening cybersecurity practices and data protection in our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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