Global Internet Governance Forum 2022: UN Human Rights Office Open Forum

IGF 2022 Open Forum #101 – Open Forum on Technical Standard-Setting and Human Rights

Date: 29 November 2022
Time: 17:30 – 18:30 East Africa Time

The Open Forum is organized by the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, and the Center for Democracy and Technology. The Forum will be held in English and will be held in hybrid mode.

This Open Forum will provide an opportunity to convene various stakeholders, particularly from academia, technical community, private sector and civil society, and discuss the following questions:

• How can standard setting processes be made more transparent and accessible to organizations working at the intersection of human rights and digital technology, and to civil society organizations more broadly?
• What are the potential ways through which concerns related to human rights in standard-setting processes can be facilitated? What are some of the case studies or examples we can look to?
• What are the current gaps and challenges for effective civil society participation in various standard-setting fora? What are some of the possible solutions to the challenges identified?

The Open Forum will be chaired by Peggy Hicks, Director, TESPRDD, UN Human Rights (OHCHR) and feature the following speakers:

• Bilel Jamoussi, Chief of Study Groups Department, ITU
• Lars Eggert, Chief, Internet Engineering Task Force
• Mehwish Ansari, Head of Digital, Article 19
• Desalegn Yehuala, Researcher and Lecturer, Addis Ababa University / Member of the Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) Caucus of
  ICANN

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Center for Democracy and Technology: @CenDemTech