Bread&Net is launching a new note-taking competition for young participants interested in reporting on digital rights issues in the Arabic-speaking region. The aim of the competition is to invite new voices from the region to continue to cover digital rights news beyond the event itself. We hope that the selected writers will continue to contribute …
Bread&Net 2022 is returning this November as a regional, hybrid festival in Beirut. Your participation in Bread&Net over the past four years has helped shape the event into what it has become today: a network of passionate advocates for digital rights and freedoms across communities in the Arabic-speaking countries. We value your contribution, and we …
Bread&Net returned for the fourth time last week, from 23 to 26 November, welcoming around 1000 participants from 74 countries to take part in the regional discourse on digital rights and freedoms in the Arabic-speaking world. Over the course of four days, technologists, organizers, researchers, lawyers, and journalists brought forth their ideas, concerns, insights, and recommendations in …
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In this #BreadandNet 2020 session moderated by Accessnow’s Marwa Fatafta, Senior Legal Consultant Mohammad Moghabat, Joey Shia, and Etienne Manyier overview the laws pertaining to data protection in the Arab Speaking World and assess the privacy implications of these legal frameworks. According to Joey Shia, data protection laws in the Gulf are similar to the …
A chatbot is an artificial intelligence feature that can be used in websites and different platforms like Facebook or Twitter and that simulates human conversation through voice commands, text or both. The first chatbots appeared in the 1960s and reemerged in 2015- 2016, when mobile phone devices made it easier for companies to see how …
In this #BreadandNet 2020 session Andreas Gebhard,co-founder and CEO of re:public, a festival for the digital society that was forced to cancel a physical event with more than 1.000 guest speakers around the world because of the COVID’s pandemic. Gebhard explains how they had to change their plans and go online and the challenges they …
In this #BreadandNet 2020 session, the Tunisian research analyst at the Corporate Accountability Index Afef Abrougui and the Egyptian journalist Wafaa Heikal discuss Corporate Accountability of Telecommunication companies. Abrougui looks into how the policies and practices of telecommunication and technology companies affect digital rights in the region. The speakers also address how organizations in the …
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The session demystifies online transformation leadership in the civil society by introducing online tools and modules that can be used to understand a given context, organize activist and volunteer groups and bring new mediums to the advancement of civil rights causes in critical contexts; especially where access to the internet may be limited due to …
In this #BreadandNet 2020 session Britta Senn from DW Academie presents 5 steps to convert your Face to Face workshop into an interactive online workshop and shares some tools that make digital training easier. The workshop ends with a Q&A session and a discussion of e-training experiences.
In this session, Jillian C. York discusses her book “Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism,” while keeping in mind these two crucial questions: How do companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our democracy? And what happens to free speech under surveillance capitalism? The internet once promised to be a place …