Episode 3 | The State of Global Digital Rights: Data Collective to Policy Creation
In episode 3, Beverley Hatcher-Mbu and special guest Irene Mwendwa, Director of Strategic Initiatives & Feminist Movement Building Program at Pollicy, discuss digital rights in non-Western contexts. Among other topics, they explore collective data rights (rather than individual) and policy creation in response to these rights.
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Related links from the conversation:
- Digital Dada Podcast
- “The vulnerable data subject: A gendered data subject?” By Gianclaudio Malgieri and Gloria González Fuster
- African Women in Artificial Intelligence
- Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
- Digital SafeTEA
- Choose Your Own Fake News
- Free Trainings from Pollicy
Special thanks to Mark Hatcher for our theme music. You can find Mark on social media at @markdhatcher.
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