Human Rights and Information Technology in the Era of Big Data
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Essex
Abstract
Edward Snowden's leaks about the extent of US and UK intelligence services' electronic surveillance dramatically demonstrated how in an increasingly digitised world, technological developments and the collection, storage and use of 'big data' pose unprecedented challenges for the protection of human rights. The aim of this programme of research is to ensure that the use of technological developments and big data are compatible with the ideals of human rights protection and can even have a positive impact.
Snowden's revelations are part of a much bigger picture in which electronic monitoring and data is collected and shared by companies and states on a routine, daily basis through social media, consumer activity and smartphones. The same technologies that threaten our privacy also provide opportunities for enhanced protection of human rights through better documentation of human rights violations and by demonstrating the effectiveness of rights-shaped policies in order to influence resource allocation and budgets.
Existing work either fails to consider the rights-implications of the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and big data or focuses on a particular right. What is missing is a wider investigation into the diverse and complex rights-implications (positive and negative) of the use of ICT and big data including, but not limited to, privacy and the many social, ethical and legal issues lurking beneath the surface of human-machine interaction and use of big data. Moreover, regulation of the use of ICT and big data is currently fragmented between states, the United Nations and internet governance sector. This project will provide added value by offering a fuller picture of the totality of human rights issues raised by ICT and big data to advance new thinking and regulatory solutions.
The research questions focus on issues that cut across the threats and opportunities:1) How is the use of ICT and big data shaping the content and scope of rights? (2) How does the use of ICT and big data shape operational practices across state and non-state activities? What new theoretical questions and implications for human rights are generated? (3) What methodologies are needed to identify and document the misuse of modern technologies and the failure to comply with rights-based obligations? (4) How can the use of ICT and big data best support evidence-based approaches to human rights protection and advocacy? (5) What possibilities and limitations exist for regulating the collection, storage and use of ICT and big data by states and non-state actors?
The project will be organised into 4 work streams. The first (WS1) will focus on the overarching and synthesising themes. This will be complemented and informed by three in-depth studies: state and non-state surveillance (WS2); health as an example of using new technologies and big data for accountability purposes and evidence-based approaches to rights (WS3); and human rights advocacy and humanitarian work (WS4). The project will use multiple methods (desk research, interviews, econometrics, comparative case studies and computational techniques).
Communication and impact streams will be developed across the different stakeholder communities to establish agreement and a shared vocabulary by forming an expert working group of practitioners (human rights and technology), international internet governance, UN actors and academics that will meet twice a year to develop international standards on information technology, big data and human rights.
Dissemination and engagement with academics, practitioners and the public will be achieved via an interactive website; social media channels; conferences; public events; academic publications; shorter practice-orientated articles, policy briefings and blogs; media pieces; and time sensitive interventions targeting key policymakers and influencers and international, regional and national courts.
Snowden's revelations are part of a much bigger picture in which electronic monitoring and data is collected and shared by companies and states on a routine, daily basis through social media, consumer activity and smartphones. The same technologies that threaten our privacy also provide opportunities for enhanced protection of human rights through better documentation of human rights violations and by demonstrating the effectiveness of rights-shaped policies in order to influence resource allocation and budgets.
Existing work either fails to consider the rights-implications of the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and big data or focuses on a particular right. What is missing is a wider investigation into the diverse and complex rights-implications (positive and negative) of the use of ICT and big data including, but not limited to, privacy and the many social, ethical and legal issues lurking beneath the surface of human-machine interaction and use of big data. Moreover, regulation of the use of ICT and big data is currently fragmented between states, the United Nations and internet governance sector. This project will provide added value by offering a fuller picture of the totality of human rights issues raised by ICT and big data to advance new thinking and regulatory solutions.
The research questions focus on issues that cut across the threats and opportunities:1) How is the use of ICT and big data shaping the content and scope of rights? (2) How does the use of ICT and big data shape operational practices across state and non-state activities? What new theoretical questions and implications for human rights are generated? (3) What methodologies are needed to identify and document the misuse of modern technologies and the failure to comply with rights-based obligations? (4) How can the use of ICT and big data best support evidence-based approaches to human rights protection and advocacy? (5) What possibilities and limitations exist for regulating the collection, storage and use of ICT and big data by states and non-state actors?
The project will be organised into 4 work streams. The first (WS1) will focus on the overarching and synthesising themes. This will be complemented and informed by three in-depth studies: state and non-state surveillance (WS2); health as an example of using new technologies and big data for accountability purposes and evidence-based approaches to rights (WS3); and human rights advocacy and humanitarian work (WS4). The project will use multiple methods (desk research, interviews, econometrics, comparative case studies and computational techniques).
Communication and impact streams will be developed across the different stakeholder communities to establish agreement and a shared vocabulary by forming an expert working group of practitioners (human rights and technology), international internet governance, UN actors and academics that will meet twice a year to develop international standards on information technology, big data and human rights.
Dissemination and engagement with academics, practitioners and the public will be achieved via an interactive website; social media channels; conferences; public events; academic publications; shorter practice-orientated articles, policy briefings and blogs; media pieces; and time sensitive interventions targeting key policymakers and influencers and international, regional and national courts.
Planned Impact
The project's research findings will primarily benefit four key communities:
(1) International human rights and humanitarian institutions (particularly UN agencies - we do not have letters of support as it is not UN practice because of their independence and impartiality): the project will provide them with increased capacity to understand the multifaceted human rights implications of technology and big data; to respond to and effectively regulate the challenges posed by information technology and big data to human rights; and increased capacity to understand and use technology and big data for the mapping, monitoring and documenting of situations of acute crisis.
(2) States: the project will benefit states by informing their efforts to regulate non-state actors' development. The research will provide state actors with a better understanding of the importance of the human rights' aspects of states' use of technology and how to choose the best way to regulate states' collection, storage and use of technology and big data.
(3) Technology industry: technological advancement offers new opportunities and the technology industry is a key driver and facilitator. The research findings will improve their understanding of the potentially adverse effect on human rights, through due diligence and self-regulation. This will raise the visibility of such issues in technology design and use. Both national (Institute of Engineering and Technology and British Computer Society) and professional bodies (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Association for Computer Machinery) that provide guidelines for professional system developers and engineers in the area of technology would benefit from the outcomes of this project and would enable them to develop conduct guidelines for professionals compatible and supportive of human rights.
(4) Human rights organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations: organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have long been aware of the downside of technology and how the development of new technologies and availability of big data sets poses serious threats to human rights and the ability of regulation to keep pace. The same organisations are also using information technology and big data to verify/falsify human rights violations allegations and struggling to understand how to effectively deal with the vast amount of data produced through social media. The project will help these groups to understand the threats and opportunities and the limits and challenges that technology and big data can pose for human rights advocates.
These four communities will be involved in the design and implementation of the programme from the outset in order to ensure its relevance to their work. A major benefit will be that the project will provide multiple opportunities and pathways for these actors to come together to share information and best practice and develop innovative and connected solutions, including on regulation, to the issues identified. Until now they have tended to work in unconnected ways at different levels (national, regional, international) thus hindering opportunities for effective regulatory response.
The project will also benefit the media and general public, including through an interactive website, where there is a high level of interest in the issues raised by this research. Big data has been lauded as a transformative resource that can be used to benefit researchers, organisation, and society in general. However, as the recent Snowden revelations revealed there is another side to the story. Snowden reignited debates about privacy and surveillance, government use and abuse of data, and revealed the threats and opportunities that advanced technologies and big data provide. The project will be able to provide valuable evidence-based input about the human rights dimensions of this ongoing debate.
(1) International human rights and humanitarian institutions (particularly UN agencies - we do not have letters of support as it is not UN practice because of their independence and impartiality): the project will provide them with increased capacity to understand the multifaceted human rights implications of technology and big data; to respond to and effectively regulate the challenges posed by information technology and big data to human rights; and increased capacity to understand and use technology and big data for the mapping, monitoring and documenting of situations of acute crisis.
(2) States: the project will benefit states by informing their efforts to regulate non-state actors' development. The research will provide state actors with a better understanding of the importance of the human rights' aspects of states' use of technology and how to choose the best way to regulate states' collection, storage and use of technology and big data.
(3) Technology industry: technological advancement offers new opportunities and the technology industry is a key driver and facilitator. The research findings will improve their understanding of the potentially adverse effect on human rights, through due diligence and self-regulation. This will raise the visibility of such issues in technology design and use. Both national (Institute of Engineering and Technology and British Computer Society) and professional bodies (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Association for Computer Machinery) that provide guidelines for professional system developers and engineers in the area of technology would benefit from the outcomes of this project and would enable them to develop conduct guidelines for professionals compatible and supportive of human rights.
(4) Human rights organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations: organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have long been aware of the downside of technology and how the development of new technologies and availability of big data sets poses serious threats to human rights and the ability of regulation to keep pace. The same organisations are also using information technology and big data to verify/falsify human rights violations allegations and struggling to understand how to effectively deal with the vast amount of data produced through social media. The project will help these groups to understand the threats and opportunities and the limits and challenges that technology and big data can pose for human rights advocates.
These four communities will be involved in the design and implementation of the programme from the outset in order to ensure its relevance to their work. A major benefit will be that the project will provide multiple opportunities and pathways for these actors to come together to share information and best practice and develop innovative and connected solutions, including on regulation, to the issues identified. Until now they have tended to work in unconnected ways at different levels (national, regional, international) thus hindering opportunities for effective regulatory response.
The project will also benefit the media and general public, including through an interactive website, where there is a high level of interest in the issues raised by this research. Big data has been lauded as a transformative resource that can be used to benefit researchers, organisation, and society in general. However, as the recent Snowden revelations revealed there is another side to the story. Snowden reignited debates about privacy and surveillance, government use and abuse of data, and revealed the threats and opportunities that advanced technologies and big data provide. The project will be able to provide valuable evidence-based input about the human rights dimensions of this ongoing debate.
Organisations
- University of Essex (Lead Research Organisation)
- Scottish Human Rights Commission (Collaboration)
- United Nations (UN) (Collaboration)
- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) (Collaboration)
- Human Rights Commission (Collaboration)
- Getulio Vargas Foundation (Collaboration)
- Federal University of Ceara (Collaboration)
- University of Barcelona (Collaboration)
- World Health Organization (Project Partner)
- Harvard University (Project Partner)
- Human Rights Data Analytics Group (Project Partner)
- Universal Rights Group (Project Partner)
- University of Geneva (Project Partner)
Publications
Abrusci E
(2020)
Law and Human Rights : Essex Dialogues
Abrusci E
(2020)
Disinformazione e diritti umani: lineamenti per un dialogo necessario' (Disinformation and human rights law: a much needed analysis)
in Federalismi.it
Ajay Sandhu
(2018)
The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet: 3
Alhelbawy A
(2020)
An NLP-Powered Human Rights Monitoring Platform
in Expert Systems with Applications
Alhelbawy A
(2020)
An NLP-Powered Human Rights Monitoring Platform
in Expert Systems with Ap-plications
Allen-Robertson J
(2019)
Encrypting Human Rights: The intertwining of voices in the UK state surveillance debate
Allen-Robertson J
(2017)
Critically assessing digital documents: materiality and the interpretative role of software
in Information, Communication & Society
Allen-Robertson, J
(2017)
The Uber Game: Exploring Algorithmic Management and Resistance
| Title | Animation: We need to think about how AI affects our human rights |
| Description | This a short animated film which explores some of the human rights issues posed by big data and Artificial Intelligence. The animation accompanies The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70 report also published by HRBDT. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The animation is available on the home page of the project website. It has also been shared with audiences at a variety of events. |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/ |
| Description | HRBDT's research has been used by a range of stakeholders to move beyond treating the harm posed by big data and AI as vague descriptions of societal harm or narrowly to privacy. Through our research, a number of key stakeholders are recognising the full human rights impact of these technologies. Our research has also been critical in demonstrating to key stakeholders the importance of using existing international human rights law and a human rights-based approach in policies, strategies, governance approaches and regulation to AI. To date, we have achieved this impact through our submissions, facilitation of multi-stakeholder dialogues and engagement with UN agencies (particularly the Office for the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UN special procedures and the Human Rights Council), states, corporations and non-governmental organisations within the 'UN space'. This has been in addition to targeted work at the national level, particularly within the UK, for example by participating in parliamentary inquiries and playing a key role in embedding human rights principles into oversight of surveillance practices. We have also had an impact on public debate and discourse and contributed to capacity-building through our media blogs on topical issues such as Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and Talk Big Data seminar series. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2015 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Acknowledgement in Upturn and Omidyar Network 'Report on Public Scrutiny of Automated Decisions: Early Lessons and Emerging Methods' (Lorna McGregor, Vivian Ng) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.omidyar.com/sites/default/files/file_archive/Public%20Scrutiny%20of%20Automated%20Decisi... |
| Description | Advisory capacity to the Development Economics Research Centre, University of Kent (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://research.kent.ac.uk/development-economics/researchers/ |
| Description | Advisory capacity to the WHO Behavioural Insights Team on a project designed to increase uptake of HPV vaccination amongst teenage girls in schools in Africa, Asia and Europe (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Appointed to the Evidence Panel of the Early Intervention Foundation London (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.eif.org.uk/people/sonia-bhalotra |
| Description | Appointed to the Women in Economics Committee (WinE), European Economic Association (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | http://www.eeassoc.org/committees/wine/current-committee |
| Description | Contributed to a 'Friends of the Court' submission by the Surveillance Camera Commissioner to the Bridges appeal (Pete Fussey and Daragh Murray) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Contribution to Leiden University's Open Consultation on the UN Group of Government Experts (UN GGE) 2015 Norm Proposals - Review of Zero Draft of Commentary, HRBDT work cited in footnotes and contributions acknowledged (Vivian Ng) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.un.org/disarmament/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Civil-Society-2017.pdf |
| Description | Core contributor to a rapid evidence review of the ethics and rights implications of technological approaches to easing lockdown by the Ada Lovelace Institute (Pete Fussey) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/evidence-review/covid-19-rapid-evidence-review-exit-through-the... |
| Description | Evidence on maternal and child health shared with Justine Menzies, Child and Maternal Health, Children and Families Directorate, Scottish Government on 18 January (Bhalotra S) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Evidence on universal child health shared with Tom McBride (Director of Evidence) of the Early Intervention Foundation, London on 8 January (Bhalotra S) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | HRBDT Article cited in Element AI report on Algorithmic Accountability (Lorna McGregor, Daragh Murray, Vivian Ng) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | HRBDT research cited in the Annual Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association to the General Assembly (A/HRC/41/41, 17 May 2019) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | Invitation to join Department for Education's Serious Violence Research and Analysis Expert Advisory Group (Pete Fussey) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Invited member of Corona Economic Research Network, Stockholm School of Economics (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.hhs.se/en/research/sse-corona-economic-research-network/ |
| Description | MIT Technology Review highlights HRBDT Human Rights Violation Detection Technology |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| Impact | Our paper on detecting human rights violations in images has been rated by MIT Technology Review, one of the world's leading technology magazines, as the most thought-provoking paper from the arXiv for the week ending 25 March 25 2017. |
| URL | https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603983/the-best-of-the-physics-arxiv-week-ending-march-25-2017/ |
| Description | Member of The Millennium Nucleus for the Study of the Life Course and Vulnerability International Advisory Board (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://www.iniciativamilenio.cl/en/millennium-nucleus-for-the-study-of-the-life-course-and-vulnerabi... |
| Description | Member of the #LancetWomen International Advisory Group (Women in Science, Medicine and Global Health) (Sonia Bhaltora) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-women-advisory-board |
| Description | Member of the Ethics and Legal Advisory boards of 3 projects (COPKIT, D4fly and PROTECT) funded by the EU Horizon2020 secure societies programme. (Kat Hadjimatheou) (2019) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Member of the UNICEF Humanitarian Crises and Adolescents Network steering committee (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Member, Ethics Advisory Board, 'Network of Excellence on Training on Hate (NETHATE) Consortium', Horizon 2020 Project, Trinity College Dublin (2021-2024) (Ahmed Shaheed) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Participation in a Consultation Session on Online Content Regulation and Internet Platforms - UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression (Krisztina Huszti-Orban) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Participation in a Government Office for Science group "Rebuilding a resilient Britain: Supporting post-Covid recovery" (Pete Fussey) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.upen.ac.uk/go_science/RRB3_TrustInPublicInstitutions.pdf |
| Description | Political participation of refugees in country of nationality |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Advice on political participation of refugees in country of nationality enhanced in three elections. |
| URL | http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/search?comid=3e5210567&cid=49aea9390&tags=PPLA |
| Description | Preparation of Submission to Scottish Government on Consultation on the Digital Strategy for Scotland on Behalf of the Scottish Human Rights Commission (Lorna McGregor and Sabrina Rau) (2020) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Increasing the capacity of a national human rights commission to participate and influence policy. (Influence of key stakeholders) |
| URL | https://www.scottishhumanrights.com/media/2141/submission-to-scottish-government-on-consultation-on-... |
| Description | Presentation and consultation as part of Danish Institute for Human Rights work on "human rights impact assessment of digital activities" (Lorna McGregor and Sabrina Rau) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.humanrights.dk/publications/human-rights-impact-assessment-digital-activities |
| Description | Submission for the Justice and Home Affairs Committee Inquiry - New technologies and applications of the Law |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/38635/pdf/ |
| Description | Submission on 'Bias in Algorithmic Decision Making' to the UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, 14 June (Lorna McGregor, Daragh Murray, Vivian Ng) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/responses-to-cdei-call-for-evidence/cdei-bias-review-call... |
| Description | Submission on 'Online Targeting ' to the UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, 14 June (Elena Abrusci, Sam Dubberley, Lorna McGregor, Sabrina Rau) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cdei-review-of-online-targeting/call-for-evidence#list-of... |
| Description | Submission on 'Online Targeting ' to the UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, 14 June (Elena Abrusci, Sam Dubberley, Lorna McGregor, Sabrina Rau) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cdei-review-of-online-targeting/call-for-evidence#list-of... |
| Description | Submission to Home Affairs Select Committee on Policing for the Future |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/home-affairs-committee/i... |
| Description | Submission to House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry on Algorithms in Decision Making, written evidence submitted by HRBDT referenced in House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee Report on Algorithms in Decision-Making, published on 23 May 2018 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/science-and-technol... |
| Description | Submission to House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence Inquiry on Economic, Ethical and Social Implications of Advances in Artificial Intelligence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/artificial-intellig... |
| Description | Submission to OHCHR Consultation on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age (Lorna McGregor, Pete Fussy, Daragh Murray, Vivian Ng) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Members of the HRBDT Project submitted contributions to the OHCHR report on the right to privacy in the digital age. The submission focused on the seriousness of violation of the right to privacy, and on challenges in the implementation of obligations to establish procedural safeguards, effective oversight and remedies for State and businesses' practices in the digital age. HRBDT contribution referenced in OHCHR report. |
| URL | http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/39/29 |
| Description | Submission to a Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression - Official 2017 Outcome of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility (Krisztina Huszti-Orban, Krzysztof Garstka and David Erdos) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Submission to the Home Office Consultation on the Government's Proposed Reponse to the Ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union on 21 December 2016 Regarding the Retention of Communications Data (Investigatory Powers Act 2016) (Daragh Murray, Pete Fussey and Maurice Sunkin) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://1ing2s14id7e20wtc8xsceyr-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Home-Office-IPA-... |
| Description | Submission to the Report on Ways to Bridge the Gender Digital Divide from a Human Rights Perspective by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Women/WRGS/GenderDigital/HRBDT_submission.pdf |
| Description | Submission to the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Consultation on the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7575... |
| Description | Submission to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) on the human rights implications of the proposed NHSX contact-tracing app (May 2020) (Lorna McGregor, Pete Fussey, Daragh Murray, Chris Fox, Geoff Gilbert, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Ahmed Shaheed) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Our submission was one of the few academic sources cited by the Joint Committee on Human RightsJCHR in its report on 'Human Rights and the Government's Response to Covid-19: Digital Contact Tracing' [S9, p6 fn 4 and 5; p9, fn10]. TOur submission was also cited by the Committee in its report, 'The Government's Response to COVID-19: Human Rights Implications', |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/3973/html/ |
| Description | Submission to the UN Secretary-General High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation Call for Contributions (Elena Abrusci, Lorna McGregor, Sabrina Rau, Ahmed Shaheed) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | The Joint Committee on Human Rights report 'The Government's Responses to COVID-19: Human Rights Implications' acknowledged written evidence (footnotes 203 and 205) provided by HRBDT |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/2649/documents/26914/default/ |
| Description | The joint Committee on Human Rights report 'Human Rights and the Government's Response to Covid-19: Digital Contact Tracing' acknowledged written evidence (footnotes 4, 5 and 15) provided by HRBDT |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5801/jtselect/jtrights/343/34304.htm |
| Description | UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises - Inputs for 2018 Report to the UN General Assembly on emerging practice and innovations of corporate human rights due diligence across sectors |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N18/224/87/PDF/N1822487.pdf?OpenElement |
| Description | Worked with the Surveillance Camera Commissioner on national guidance to regulate police surveillance technologies as part of leadership of the human rights strand of the national strategy (Pete Fussey) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Written evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies on misinformation, 29 October 2019 (Elena Abrusci, Sam Dubberley, Lorna McGregor) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/democracy-and-digit... |
| Description | British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship |
| Amount | £78,111 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AF160082 |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2016 |
| End | 09/2019 |
| Description | British Academy Sustainable Development Programme (GCRF) |
| Amount | £337,308 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | GF160011 |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2016 |
| End | 09/2018 |
| Description | Grand Challenges Explorations Data Science Approaches to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Brazil |
| Amount | $0 (USD) |
| Funding ID | Using Geocoded Big Data to Identify Causal Links Between Infectious Diseases and Child Developmental Outcomes |
| Organisation | GCE Lab School |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 04/2020 |
| Description | RCUK-CONFAP Newton Fund |
| Amount | £79,737 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/N000048/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 12/2016 |
| Title | Code and documents for reproducibility purposes: Privacy Nudging in Search - Investigating Potential Impacts |
| Description | 'Privacy nudging in search - Investigating potential impacts' involved a comparison of 3 novel methods to address privacy concerns in a search engine. The published code and documents include: web page meta data (including 3rd party tracker data), anonymised participant data and web pages as displayed to users. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | No known impact yet |
| URL | https://github.com/stevenzim/chiir-2019/commits/master |
| Title | Code books - Improving Hate Speech Detection with Deep Learning Ensembles |
| Description | Code books for reproducibility purposes on the Wasseem Hatespeech and Semeval Twitter datasets published in paper: Improving Hate Speech Detection with Deep Learning Ensembles. The paper explored an neural ensemble approach to identify hate speech. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | No known impact to date |
| URL | https://github.com/stevenzim/lrec-2018 |
| Title | Human Rights Archive CNNs Dataset |
| Description | The Human Rights Archive is the core set of HRA Database, which has been used to train the Human-Rights-Archive-CNNs. There are 3050 train images from 8 human rights violations categories and one 'no violation' category in the HRA, which are used to train the Human-Rights-Archive-CNNs. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact |
| URL | https://github.com/GKalliatakis/Human-Rights-Archive-CNNs |
| Title | Human Rights Understanding Dataset |
| Description | This is the first ever image dataset of human rights violations photographs, labelled with human rights semantic categories, comprising a list of the types of human rights abuses encountered at present.The dataset consists of 4 different categories of human rights violations and 100 diverse images per category. This dataset was constructed with the specific purpose of capturing a range of real world situations of common human rights violations (e.g. child labour, child soldiers etc.) The dataset has been used to train various CNNs based on a deep representation learning tool for image classification with Matlab, called MatDeepRep. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of impact to date. |
| URL | https://github.com/GKalliatakis/Human-Rights-UNderstanding-CNNs |
| Description | Domestic violence as a public health issue |
| Organisation | Federal University of Ceara |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research on public health in Brazil initiated under this award led us to connect with Prof Jose Carvalho at the Federal University of Ceara. As an extension of the research on this award, we have started to discuss new research on domestic violence as a public health issue. I have applied with Prof Carvalho for a GCRF networking grant to develop these links. My contribution arises from my experience of working on gender, health and domestic violence. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof Carvalho's experience arises from his having led the implementation of two rounds of a survey of 10,000 women on domestic violence in Brazil. We are currently discussing collaborating in design of the third wave of the survey, including further collaborators from Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands. |
| Impact | The collaboration has resulted in (a) an award from a Swedish funder of 50,000 euros to pilot an intervention for domestic violence in Brazil ; (b) a GCRF networking application to the UKRI of £150,000 to create an international network on domestic violence in developing countries and (c) a new research team involving a psychologist working at a large NGO in Brazil and economists working in Brazil, the UK (me), Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | GCC award collaboration |
| Organisation | Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) |
| Department | Research Center Aggeu Magalhães |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Based on the work done under this award on public health in Brazil, we made contact with Prof Mauricio Barreto. He is a major public health expert in the FIOCRUZ research centre in Bahia, Brazil. He has linked administrative data from various sources to study health. We were one of a group awarded a Grand Challenges Canada award to collaborate with the Bahia group. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The contribution of the FIOCRUZ group and Prof Barreto is to have led new research on maternal and child health, dengue, zika, using individual linked data from Brazil. they have also created a research consortium funded by GCC of which we are a part (we being me and Prof Rudi Rocha, my collaborator in Brazil). |
| Impact | An outcome is the award to Prof Rocha and me of a Grand Challenges award starting 2019.there will be further outcomes from this new research. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Innovation Service, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| Organisation | United Nations (UN) |
| Department | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UNHCR Innovation Service and the HRBDT Project are collaborating to research image and text based computational analysis to advance human rights and humanitarian protection. The HRBDT research team will explore possibilities of the application of big data and associated technologies within displacement settings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UNHCR Innovation Service will test the application of computational techniques in real-world settings, applying them to decision making from emergency preparedness through to durable solutions. |
| Impact | A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in February 2018. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving, among others, computer scientists and lawyers. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | New Zealand Human Rights Commission UPR monitoring |
| Organisation | Human Rights Commission |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Carmel Williams and Paul Hunt have met with the Human Rights Commission on several occasions and have designed and developed a research initiative involving application of big data to the Commission's web-based UPR monitoring mechanism. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The New Zealand Human Rights Commission has facilitated meetings with their staff, other government agencies, and major organisations working with big data for social investment purposes in New Zealand. |
| Impact | A workshop with the New Zealand Human Rights Commission on Big Data and Human Rights (28 February 2017). This was multidisciplinary, involving many sectors: Statistics NZ, Treasury, Health, Internal Affairs (privacy), and the private sector. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | New research on the impact of health on earnings, poverty and welfare dependency |
| Organisation | University of Barcelona |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | With my collaborator on this award, we raised a research grant from the Sustainable Development Programme of the British Academy to extend our research on health rights and universal health provision in Brazil to look at new data and new questions pertaining to the impact of (a) dengue and (b) expansion of public health coverage and (c) cash transfer programmes providing income support on health, earnings, poverty and welfare dependency outcomes. Under the BA award, we hired Dr Gabriel Facchini at Universidad Autonoma Barcelona, who now continues to work with us to take forward this evolving research agenda. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Facchini has contributed scholarship during the period of the BA award (ending Dec 2018) and going forward from there. He will coauthor the paper on health, income and welfare dependency. |
| Impact | A paper which is forthcoming in the ISER Working Paper series. A number of seminar/conference presentations, with more to come. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership with the Scottish Human Rights Commission |
| Organisation | Scottish Human Rights Commission |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We were engaged as consultants to draft the submission for the Scottish Human Rights Commission to the Scottish Government, thus adding to its capacity to engage with, and influence policy in Scotland, on the implications of data analytics and AI technologies on human rights. The collaboration was subject to a formal consultancy agreement. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above |
| Impact | https://www.scottishhumanrights.com/media/2141/submission-to-scottish-government-on-consultation-on-the-digital-strategy-for-scotland-final-for-web.pdf. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Universal health and Emergency room crowding |
| Organisation | Getulio Vargas Foundation |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Following our work on this award, we applied to the Newton Fellowships for a new award (directed at my coauthor Rudi Rocha in Brazil), which we were successful in obtaining. Under this award, we hired Leticea Nunes, a PhD student at FGV Rio. With Leticea we have been working on a new question, with new data, investigating the creation of walk-in health centres, open 24/7, designed to reduce the growing burden on emergency room services provided by hospitals. The average travel time to the walk-in centre is also nearer, so in principle the less severe cases can be treated at the nearer location and the more severe cases taken by ambulance to the hospital ER. We created geo-coded data on the walk in centres and hospitals in the state of Rio and state of the art models to estimate impacts of the new initiative on hospital performance and on health outcomes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner is in the case Dr Nunes at FGV and her contribution has been to manage the data creation and analysis with supervision from Rudi and me. |
| Impact | A working paper based on our new research will be published in the next 2-3 months, it is currently being drafted. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | DisplaceNet - Recognising Displaced People from Images by Exploiting Dominance Level |
| Description | DisplaceNet is a novel model which infers potential displaced people from images by integrating the control level of the situation and conventional convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier into one framework for image classification. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Displacement reduces the amount of manual labour required for human-rights-related image analysis. Our experimental results showed that this is an effective strategy, which we believe has good potential beyond human rights related classification. All our code and data are publicly available. |
| URL | https://github.com/GKalliatakis/DisplaceNet |
| Description | 'As paedophile hunters proliferate, police need a strategy for dealing with them', Policing Insight (25 November 2019) (Kat Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This article described the benefits and dangers of working with vigilante padeophile hunter groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://policinginsight.com/features/analysis/as-paedophile-hunters-proliferate-police-need-a-long-t... |
| Description | 'Can a Human Rights-Based Approach Add Value to Accountability of Algorithmic and Artificial Intelligence Systems?' AI Law and Policy Conference, HUJI Cyber Security Research Centre, Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vivian Ng participated in the AI: Law and Policy Conference hosted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Federmann Cyber Security Center - Cyber Law Program. Vivian Ng presented on 'Can a Human Rights-Based Approach Add Value to Accountability of Algorithmic and Artificial Intelligence Systems?' during the session on 'AI and Human Rights Challenges'. Based on a paper co-authored with Lorna McGregor and Daragh Murray, the presentation looked at how the human rights framework can contribute to effective accountability for the use of algorithms in decision-making. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://csrcl.huji.ac.il/event/ai-law-and-policy-dayI |
| Description | 'Expert Workshop on Privacy/Data Protection Impact Assessments' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Expert Workshop on Privacy/Data Protection Impact Assessments coorganised by the Danish Institute for Human Rights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | 'How does content moderation affect human rights? Commentary on the case of infowars' (Vivian Ng, Sabrina Rau) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The post analysed the role that social media platforms play in the realisation of the right to freedom of expression in particular, and considered if and how content moderation by private companies that own and control such platforms can be compliant with human rights standards and norms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://hrbdt.ac.uk/how-does-content-moderation-affect-human-rights-commentary-on-the-case-of-infowa... |
| Description | 'Locating Human Rights in the Critical Analysis of Algorithmic Decision-Making: A Brief Commentary on the Science and Technology Committee Report on Algorithms in Decision-Making |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The post analysed how human rights have featured in the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Fourth Report of Session 2017-2019 on 'Algorithms in decision-making', and argued that human rights should underpin and center the understanding of how algorithms affect individuals and groups in society, as well as the responses to address the risks and challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/locating-human-rights-in-the-critical-analysis-of-algorithmic-decision-makin... |
| Description | 'Moving beyond the problem: pathways to meaningful consent online', RightsCon (Tunis, 14 June) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This session was organised and moderated by HRBDT and included speakers from a range of organisations with representation from the global south. New perspectives were gained from the forum and attendees were very interested. Further information was requested after the panel and our background paper on consent online was complimented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 'Presentation on 'Can a Human Rights-Based Approach Add Value to Algorithmic Accountability?' at Data Justice 2018 Conference, Cardiff (Lorna McGregor, Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor and Vivian Ng participated in the Data Justice Conference 2018, which was hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University. The conference looked at social justice in terms of research and practices, at a time of datafication and the normalisation of data collection and analysis. Lorna McGregor and Vivian Ng gave a presentation on 'Can a Human Rights-Based Approach Add Value to Algorithmic Accountability', during the session 'Auditing, Explaining and Accountable Data'. Based on a paper co-authored with Daragh Murray, the presentation outlined some existing approaches to algorithmic accountability and looked at how the human rights framework can contribute to effective accountability for the use of algorithms in decision-making. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://datajustice.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/programme-final-2018.pdf |
| Description | 'Regulating Surveillance' Global MSC Security Conference and Exhibition 2019 (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 'Regulating Surveillance' Global MSC Security Conference and Exhibition 2019 at Bristol University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Surveillance, Trust and Vigilance' talk at workshop for the Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance project (K.Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paper presentation: 'Surveillance, Trust and Vigilance', at the workshop for the Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance project (University of Berlin) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/tatas/ |
| Description | 'The Role of Technology Companies during Covid-19 with Sabrina Rau' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Podcast with Talk Time to discuss the role of tech companies during covid-19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://podcasts.apple.com/am/podcast/the-role-of-technology-companies-during-covid-19/id1557249880?... |
| Description | 'The Uber Game: Exploring the user/algorithm relationship through new computational methods', Digital Cultures Conference (James Allen Robertson) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'The Uber Game: Exploring the user/algorithm relationship through new computational methods', Digital Cultures Conference at the University of Leuphana |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'What next after the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revelations?', co-hosted with Chatham House, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Co-hosted a panel discussion with the International Law Program at Chatham House, on 'What Next After the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Revelations?'. Experts on the panel included Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch, David Kaye, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Lorna McGregor, the Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the HRBDT Project, and James Williams, a writer and academic at the University of Oxford, and formerly a strategist at Google. The discussion was chaired by Harriet Moynihan, an Associate Fellow of the International Law Program at from Chatham House. The discussion covered issues including how the concerns identified in the technology sector relate to other sectors that also process and amalgamate data, complexity in assessing the real benefits and risks of artificial intelligence applications for healthcare, the state of public opinion and the trajectory of development in this area. It also explored various recourses for accountability, such as what individuals can do and particular challenges for certain minority groups that rely on social media platforms for communication, the role that technological solutions can play in terms of design solutions and for remedy, the operationalisation of and coordination between various monitoring and oversight mechanisms, as well as priorities for different stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.chathamhouse.org/event/what-next-after-facebook-and-cambridge-analytica-revelations |
| Description | (How) Can Algorithms Be Human Rights Compliant? at RightsCon 2017 (Lorna McGregor, Daragh Murray, Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The Project organised a panel discussion that focused on exploring whether and how algorithms can be human rights-compliant, drawing on experts with diverse expertise to converge human rights principles with technological solutions. The session outlined the risks to human rights posed by algorithmic decision-making, assessed whether and how methodologically robust algorithms can be designed and developed in a human rights-compliant manner, including examples of what has and has not worked, with recommendations on the way forward in this complex, interdisciplinary area. The session was chaired by Lorna McGregor, with panellists Natasha Duarte (Center for Democracy & Technology), Bernard Shen (Microsoft), Ben Wagner (Center of Internet & Human Rights) and Bruce Schneier (Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society and Harvard Kennedy School). The session received positive feedback on social media as a 'phenomenal session' and 'one of the best sessions so far' at the conference. The session was selected as one of two highlighted sessions under the 'Algorithmic Accountability and Transparency: Shining a light in the black box' track in the RightsCon Brussels Outcome Report released by Access Now on 14 June 2017 (report link: https://www.rightscon.org/cms/assets/uploads/2017/06/Rightscon-2017-Brux-Outcome-Report.pdf). The session was valuable in demonstrating the rights perspective the Project brought to a topical issue, and provided a good opportunity for building relationships with other key stakeholders in this context. The expert opinions of the panellists have also been considered in ongoing Project research on algorithmic accountability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://events.bizzabo.com/RightsCon/agenda/session/177202 |
| Description | A Brief Review of the OHCHR Consultation on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The post highlighted the key elements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expert workshop on the right to privacy in the digital age, outlined HRBDT's contributions, and summarised OHCHR's outcome report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://hrbdt.ac.uk/a-brief-review-of-the-ohchr-consultation-on-the-right-to-privacy-in-the-digital-... |
| Description | A New Deal on Big Data Roundtable (Ajay Sandhu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 5 September 2017, Ajay Sandhu participated in a roundtable discussion with members of Amnesty International and related activist organisations about the politics of big data and the rights concerns that must be addressed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | A key note lecture on 'Citizen-led digital policing' at the SIPR International Policing Conference 2019, Scottish Institute for Policing Research, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 10 December 2019) (Katerina Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kat presented a key note lecture on 'Citizen-led digital policing' at the SIPR International Policing Conference 2019 which aimed to explore ethical, legal, and societal concerns raised by the incorporation of various forms of technology, and the challenge of policing in a digital sphere. The lecture was the Inaugural Nick Fyfe Memorial Lecture at the Scottish Institute for Policing Research. The audience were academics, Police, NGO's and private consultants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.sipr.ac.uk/news-events/sipr-international-policing-conference-2019 |
| Description | A panel discussion on 'Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigations' at the Digital Witness Book Launch on Amnesty (London, 26 February 2020) (Sam Dubberley and Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | 100 people from the general public, third sector organisations and students attended this panel event 'Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigations' at the Digital Witness Book Launch. The book is the first guide to using open source investigations to identify human rights violations. The discussion was recorded and is available as a podcast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/panel-discussion-book-launch-for-digital-witness-26-february-2020-2/ |
| Description | A presentation on Surveillance and Security in the Digital Age at the ESRC Festival of Social Science (Colchester, 10 November 2019) (Katerina Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was an open lecture to engage with the general public on the topical issue of Surveillance and Security in the Digital Age, discussing the growing reliance on digital surveillance and security to uphold public safety. It was held in a town centre pub as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.essex.ac.uk/events/2019/11/06/surveillance-and-security-in-the-digital-age |
| Description | A presentation on 'Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden' (Oxford University, Economics Department, 21 May 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 'Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden' to students and staff at the Oxford University on 21 May 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2a3ad460-a163-4a36-a4a4-45b0ac3108c0/ |
| Description | A presentation on 'Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden' (University of Warwick, 9 March 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave an online presentation entitled 'Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden' on 9 March 2020 as part of the University of Warwick's economics research seminar series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | A presentation on 'Police Data Systems: Problems of Transparency and Accountability' at The Eyes Online Project Knowledge Exchange Event at the University of Dundee (Dundee, 11 October 2019) (Katerina Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on 'Police Data Systems: Problems of Transparency and Accountability' at The Eyes Online Project Knowledge Exchange Event on the 11/10/19 at the University of Dundee which was attended by 30 police, academics and NGO's. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | A presentation on Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence (Human Rights Centre-Criminology Joint Seminar, University of Essex, February 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence for a Human Rights Centre-Criminology Joint Seminar at the University of Essex, February 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | A presentation on Leveraging Computer Vision for Visual Recognition of Human Rights Abuses at International Conference on Digital Image and Signal Processing (DISP) (Oxford, 29 April 2019) (Klaus McDonald-Maier) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on Leveraging Computer Vision for Visual Recognition of Human Rights Abuses at International Conference on Digital Image and Signal Processing (DISP), on 29 April 2019 in Oxford by Klaus McDonald-Maier. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/event/q9z0v/international-conference-on-digital-image-... |
| Description | A talk on ' Digital ethics in policing' at the National Police Chief's Council's Annual Internet Investigations and Intelligence conference (K.Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk on ' Digital ethics in policing' at the National Police Chief's Council's Annual Internet Investigations and Intelligence conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | A talk on 'Surveillance, Trust, and the Presumption of Innocence' at a Conference on 'Fundamental Rights and Criminal Procedure in the Digital Age' Sao Paulo University (Brazil, 22 August 2019) (Katerina Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 80 academics and students attended the presentation on 'Surveillance, Trust, and the Presumption of Innocence'. Conference on 'Fundamental Rights and Criminal Procedure in the Digital Age' at Sao Paulo University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | A talk on Online Security at the University of Essex (Colchester, January 2020) (Katerina Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A talk for secondary school children at Aspire Academy, a school for children who are not able to cope with mainstream education. The talk was about online security. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | A talk or presentation - 'Disruptive technology I: what does artificial intelligence mean for human rights due diligence', United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights (Geneva) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | participants noted a change in views following the panel and many asked for more information. Many new contacts were made through this presentation for the project for further collaboration. Based on these contacts HRBDT was also invited to expert meetings with businesses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://2018unforumbhr.sched.com/event/GZ5u/disruptive-technology-i-what-does-artificial-intelligenc... |
| Description | A talk or presentation - 'Watching over our private lives (and why it matters to resist and regulate)' panel at Goldsmiths Law Symposium on technology and human rights. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendance of a wide range of individuals ensured engaging conversations throughout the day. Audience members reported thinking differently about the issues at hand following the panel. New netwroking opportunities established for the project in particular to surveillance activities in Germany that work stream 2 is working on. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://sites.gold.ac.uk/law/technology-and-human-rights-an-uneasy-relationship/ |
| Description | A talk or presentation - Presentation on 'Data Sharing in Health Technology Public-Private Partnerships in the NHS: Implications for the Right to Health' at the Human Rights Research Students Conference (London, 16 May 2019) (Amy Dickens) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On the 16th of May 2019 the Human Rights Consortium hosted the latest Human Rights Research Students's Conference. Students from across the UK (and beyond) gathered to present on issues ranging from the impact of new technologies on the right to health in the UK to the rights of people with disabilities in Latin America. Amy Dickens presented her research on Data Sharing in Health Technology Public-Private Partnerships in the NHS. As a result Amy was asked to run a half-day workshop on AI and the right to health at a School of Advanced Studies summer school. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://hrc.sas.ac.uk/events/human-rights-research-students-conferences |
| Description | AI for Good but Good for All?, June 29 2019 (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The post commented on the 'AI for Good Summit' in Geneva. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/ai-for-good-but-good-for-all/ |
| Description | Addressing Access to Remedy in the Digital Age: Corporate Misconduct in Sharing and Processing Personal Data - 2017 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights (Sheldon Leader and Krisztina Huszti-Orban) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, together with the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations, organised a panel session in the context of the 2017 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. The panel was moderated by Sheldon Leader and Krisztina Huszti-Orban participated as a panellist. The event identified the main challenges to ensuring access to legal, as well as non-legal, remedies in the context of data processing and data-sharing by corporations with their business relationships, in line with Pillar 3 of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and addressed the shortcomings in ensuring access to remedy in the context of data-sharing in response to requests by public authorities, justified on grounds of national security or law enforcement interests. Benefiting from the multi-stakeholder perspectives represented on the panel, the side event also explored potential solutions and good practices regarding the remediation of adverse impact of corporate misconduct and steps that can be taken on part of companies and the state in this regard (including through public-private partnerships). Several members of the audience approached members of the Project to inquire about the Project and modalities for cooperation. The panellists invited by the Project have similarly expressed interest in cooperation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Business/ForumSession6/20_AddressingAccessRemedy.pdf |
| Description | Advisory Board, Lancet theme on Women in Science, Medicine and Public Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Prof Sonia Bhalotra invited by the Chief Editor of the Lancet to act on an international Advisory Board for a current theme on Women in Science, Medicine and Public Health "given her expertise in gender and public health". Note that the dropdown menu below does not allow for a future impact but the impact stated will be in the coming year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | After Paris, It's Traditional Detective Work That Will Keep Us Safe, Not Mass Surveillance (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog discusses the limitations of mass surveillance for security. The blog is designed to raise awareness of issues related to mass surveillance and security. Reposted on Juan Cole's informed comment blog (https://www.juancole.com/2015/11/after-detective-surveillance.html) and Phys.org. (https://phys.org/news/2015-11-opinion-paris-traditional-safe-mass.html) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/after-paris-its-traditional-detective-work-that-will-keep-us-safe-not-ma... |
| Description | Algorithmic Decision-Making and Human Rights (Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog post sets out some of the preliminary thinking in the Project regarding algorithmic decision-making, the issues Project members are working on from an inter-disciplinary perspective, in particular algorithmic discrimination, and some critical questions to be addressed. The blog post was reposted on the UK Administrative Justice Institute website (https://ukaji.org/2017/04/24/algorithmic-decision-making-and-human-rights/) and the Project received an invitation to speak at a conference following this blog post. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/algorithmic-decision-making-and-human-rights/ |
| Description | American Association of Geographers Annual Conference (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In April 2017, Pete Fussey presented preliminary research findings on 'Predictive Policing, Ethics and Rights' at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference in Boston, US. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | American Society of Criminology Conference 2016 (Ajay Sandhu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of 'Police's Data Visibility' concept in preparation for research discussing the monitoring of police work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Amnesty International's Tanya O'Carroll on Privacy and the Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear Argument (Ajay Sandhu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog post discusses popular views about privacy in light of the expansion of big data and surveillance with Tanya O'Carroll, a Technology and Human Rights Advisor at Amnesty International. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/amnesty-internationals-tanya-ocarroll-on-privacy-the-nothing-to-hide-nothing... |
| Description | An End to PFI/PF2 - Implications for the Right to Health (Amy Dickens) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Philip Hammond delivered a UK Conservative Budget including the announcement that the government will end the Private Finance Initiative (PFI/PF2) on the basis of 'compelling evidence' that it does not deliver value for money or transfer risk to the private sector, as proclaimed by the Conservatives and their political predecessors. Amy Dickens analyses this statement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://hrbdt.ac.uk/an-end-to-pfi-pf2-implications-for-the-right-to-health/ |
| Description | Analysis of Text-Based Social Media Sources and Its Application in Detecting Human Rights Violations (Speaker: Professor Massimo Poesio) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The talk was to provide support to civilian-led reporting of human rights violations, in the context of MRG's involvement in the Ceasefire Centre and, in particular, in the Ceasefire Iraq project. This project complements the objectives of the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, exploring the contributions of big data - and in particular, social media - to the identification of human rights violations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.essex.ac.uk/iads/news_and_seminars/seminarDetail.aspx?e_id=11506 |
| Description | Article "The Key to a Sustainable Digital Future; Human Rights Safeguards- European Financial Review" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This article was published in the European Financial review and was later republished in the World financial review. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://worldfinancialreview.com/the-key-to-a-sustainable-digital-future-human-rights-safeguards/ |
| Description | Article in The Conversation on 'Cambridge Analytica is more than a data breach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The article focused on how people can bring human rights claims in cases like the Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook user data, and analysed the application of the right to a remedy.The article elaborated on the serious and pervasive human rights harm in such incidents, assessed opportunities for individuals to make claims for violations of their human rights, and critical elements for determining and ensuring accountability. As of 28 February 2019, the article had 3652 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/cambridge-analytica-is-more-than-a-data-breach-its-a-human-rights-proble... |
| Description | Article in The Conversation on 'Four ways your Google searches and social media affect your opportunities in life' (Lorna McGregor, Daragh Murray, Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The article focused on the real, everyday impact of technology like search engines on individuals' lives and opportunities in life. The article examined four examples - credit scores, job opportunities, parole and bail decisions, and visa applications. Republished in The Times LIVE, The Independent, inews, and The Metro. As of 28 February 2019, the original article on The Converation had 17,166 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/four-ways-your-google-searches-and-social-media-affect-your-opportunitie... |
| Description | Article in The Conversation on 'Google's new principles on AI need to be better at protecting human rights' (Lorna McGregor, Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The article analysed the compability of Google's new principles on artificial intelligence with human rights, with recommendations for the company's overall approach and considerations to be responsible for how it develops and deploys artificial intelligence, As of 28 February 2019, the article had 5429 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/googles-new-principles-on-ai-need-to-be-better-at-protecting-human-right... |
| Description | Article in The Conversation on 'Smartphone data tracking is more than creepy - here's why you should be worried' (Vivian Ng and Catherine Kent) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article focused on how smartphones can be used as effective tracking tools through the collection, amalgamation and processing of data. Republished in The Conversation Indonesia and the i Newspaper. As of 28 February 2019, the original article on The Converation had 72,530 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/smartphone-data-tracking-is-more-than-creepy-heres-why-you-should-be-wor... |
| Description | Article on Police use of Big Data (Away Sandhu and Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Police are using big data to profile young people, putting them at risk of discrimination' published on The Conversation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/police-are-using-big-data-to-profile-young-people-putting-them-at-risk-o... |
| Description | Attendance of UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (Geneva, 25-27 November) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UN Forum on business and human rights brought together a wide variety of stakeholders. HRBDT's attendance was impactful in contributing human rights perspectives to a range of panels that were attended. Furthermore, side meetings with a range of stakeholders made it possible to build new collaborations and projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Business/Forum/Pages/2019ForumBHR.aspx |
| Description | Attended invitation-only policing event on 'Policing the Nation' (July 2019) (Kat Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Kat Hadjimatheou took part in an expert working group on 'Policing the Nation'. The discussions fed into an upcoming report on ethical and legal issues in big data and AI in policing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | B-tech Community of Practice meeting on Remedy for tech related human rights harm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An expert workshop to discuss the remedy ecosystem with industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Background discussion with Alastair Reid, Press Association on Cambridge Analytica and role in Brexit Campaign (Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Background discussion with Alastair Reid, Press Association on Cambridge Analytica and role in Brexit Campaign (Daragh Murray) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Beyond privacy: the right to health implications of data sharing partnerships in healthcare (Amy Dickens, Linsey McGoey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Blog published on HRBDT website to raise awareness of human rights issues extending: "Beyond privacy: the right to health implications of data sharing partnerships in healthcare" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom - Some initial thoughts (Daragh Murray, Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The post analysed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom, with a focus on the bulk interception programme. It looked at the following elements of the case - effective remedy, extraterritorial human rights obligations, general principles applicable to secret surveillance, the legitimacy - in principle - of bulk interception, the 'reasonable suspicion' requirement, the six minimum requirements applicable to bulk interception and other interception regimes, the role of prior judicial or independent authorisation, building in the test of 'necessity' of surveillance measures into the legal framework, and intelligence-sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://hrbdt.ac.uk/big-brother-watch-and-others-v-the-united-kingdom-some-initial-thoughts/ |
| Description | Big Data Hothouse event Essex/Kent police (Pete Fussey, Ajay Sandhu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hothouse event on big data in policing with police units |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Big Data and Human Rights - European Youth Forum (Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The European Youth Forum organised an expert group for consultation in the process of drafting the organisation's position on opportunities and challenges in the digital economy. Vivian Ng was invited to present to members of the Forum on big data, human rights, and the future of work on 23 October 2017. The presentation addressed the opportunities and risks that big data and associated technologies present and the importance of considering both, the need to have a forward-looking perspective about future development of big data and technology given its relevance for the audience who were predominantly youth, and emphasised the consideration of future challenges and existing issues. The participants posed further questions including issues relating to the gender digital divide, how far the law currently protects rights such as privacy, and the impact of developments such as social credit scoring systems. The organisers provided positive feedback about the new perspectives the participants gained through the session and expressed interest in soliciting the Project's expertise for future related events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Big Data and Monitoring Sustainable Development Goal 3: Not Counting Those Left Behind? (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog, authored by Carmel Williams, summarises a published paper on the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/big-data-and-monitoring-sustainable-development-goal-3-not... |
| Description | Big Data and Monitoring Sustainable Development Goal 3: Not Counting Those Left Behind? by Carmel Williams |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Blog first published on HRBDT website was reprinted on the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.unrisd.org/TechAndHumanRights-Williams |
| Description | Big Data and UPR Methodology - Law and Society Association Conference (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Carmel Williams presented the methodology being used in research using big data to hold the New Zealand government to account over the recommendations from the 2014 Universal Periodic Review at the 2017 Law and Society Association Conference in Mexico City. There were questions asked by the audience in the discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Big Data and the Right to Health: Explaining Ourselves! (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This blog was written by Carmel Williams and Paul Hunt to introduce the broad concepts of the right to health, human rights, and their role within the Human Rights Big Data and Technology Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/big-data-and-the-right-to-health-explaining-ourselves/ |
| Description | Big Data can strengthen UPR monitoring and promote improved policies (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The purpose of the blog was to demonstrate how Big Data can contribute to human rights accountability mechanisms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Big Data in Social and Economic Research Workshop organised by the German Data Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Maria Fasli (Lead of the Methodological Research Stream, ESRC BLG DRC), was invited to attend and present at the workshop "Big Data in Social and Economic Research" which was organised by the German Data Forum. The aim of the workshop was to bring together a select group of international experts and research stakeholders to exchange experiences with big data research in the social and economic sciences and to explore and discuss existing and future access to big data sources. Professor Fasli used the workshop to raise awareness of and describe the work on her ESRC-funded projects as well as describe practices and approaches for obtaining, managing and providing access to socio-economic datasets under the ESRC BLG DRC including highly sensitive datasets and research under the project with the charity Freedom from Torture and the Human Rights Big Data and Technology project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Big Data, Mass Surveillance and The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project (Ajay Sandhu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog discusses the wide range of topics addressed by the surveillance and human rights research undertaken within the Project, including security, policing, and privacy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/big-data-mass-surveillance-and-the-human-rights-big-data-technology-project/ |
| Description | Blog EJIL Talk: Contact-tracing Apps and Human Rights (30 April 2020) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog (published by Prof Lorna McGregor in EJIL Talk!) focused on the human rights implications of different contact-tracing apps. The blog argued that while the UK is under an obligation to protect the rights to life and health during the Covid-19 pandemic, it can only introduce measures that may adversely impact other human rights, if it can show that they are necessary and proportionate, including that they are the least restrictive means possible. The blog also argued that the contact-tr |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ejiltalk.org/contact-tracing-apps-and-human-rights/ |
| Description | Blog Just Security: A Conversation with U.N. Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed: Covid 19 and Freedom of Belief |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ryan Goodman, Just Security's co-editor-in-chief, posed a series of questions to Dr Ahmed Shaheed. Ahmed's responses considered the role of faith leaders and human rights advocates during the pandemic and the placing of restrictions by governments worldwide on the right to free expression of religion. Ahmed also discussed the role of social media companies in tackling religious based violence and discrimination which rose sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic and the link between his UN mandate and the need to address the digital divide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/a-conversation-with-u-n-special-rapporteur-ahmed-shaheed-covd-19-and-freedom... |
| Description | Blog Medium: Finding Trump with Neural Networks (June 15 2018) (James Allen-Robertson) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog 'Finding Trump with Neural Networks' was originally published on the Medium website. The blog received over 382 votes of recognition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://towardsdatascience.com/finding-trump-with-neural-networks-4419468e0624 |
| Description | Blog Universal Rights Groups website: The COVID-19 pandemic: Five urgent principles for leaving no one behind through technology (May 19 2020) (Lorna McGregor and Ahmed Shaheed) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this blog post which originally appeared on the Universal Rights Group website, Prof Lorna McGregor and Dr Ahmed Shaheed consider how the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the worldwide digital divide and that if urgent action is not taken, existing structural inequalities will expand and entrench and threaten the protection of human rights and the rule of law worldwide. The authors set out five principles which should be considered immediate priorities for states responding to harm caused by the digital divide during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.universal-rights.org/nyc/blog-nyc/the-covid-19-pandemic-five-urgent-principles-for-leavi... |
| Description | Blog on "The need for clear governance frameworks on predictive algorithms in military settings", ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, 28 March 2019 (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The blog post discussed the need for clear governance frameworks on predictive algorithms in military settings. It explored the current and potential use of these algorithms to assist in decision-making in armed conflict settings and the challenges posed to human rights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2019/03/28/need-clear-governance-frameworks-predictive-algorit... |
| Description | Blog on 'Assessing failures of universal health coverage in a regime where the state can be held accountable - the case of Colombia' on Foco económico (15 October 2019) (Manuel Fernandez Sierra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog discussed the Coloumbian social security system and the impact of barriers to access to health services on health outcomes in the population. The blog originally appeared in Spanish on: Foco económico: un blog latinoamericano de economía y política and was later posted on the HRBDT website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/assessing-failures-of-universal-health-coverage-in-a-regime-where-the-state-... |
| Description | Blog on 'Google's pay audit and the meaning of 'equality', Essex Human Rights Centre Blog, 23 April 2019 (Laura Carter) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Laura Carter wrote a blog piece on: Google's pay audit and the meaning of 'equality' a current topic that is related to her research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/googles-pay-audit-and-the-meaning-of-equality/ |
| Description | Blog on 'The call for radical transparency meaningful accountability and commitment to remedy- David Kaye's report on content regulation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | stimulating more research around content moderation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007,2018 |
| URL | https://hrbdt.ac.uk/the-call-for-radical-transparency-meaningful-accountability-and-commitment-to-re... |
| Description | Blog on HRBDT Conference in Geneva, HRBDT blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Presented key points from the international HRBDT conference in a brief blog format that was easily accessible to reach wider audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://hrbdt.ac.uk/hrbdt-conference-human-rights-in-a-digital-age-2/ |
| Description | Blog on UNRISD website - Big Data and Monitoring Sustainable Development Goal 3: Not Counting Those Left Behind? (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog has been re-posted at the request of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) as part of the UNRISD Think Piece Series, From Disruption to Transformation? Linking Technology and Human Rights for Sustainable Development, launched to coincide with the 37th Session of the UN Human Rights Council and the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this series, experts from academia, think tanks and civil society engage with the topic of linking technology and human rights, and share their experience at the front lines of policy-driven research and advocacy aimed at leaving no one behind in an increasingly digital, automated world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.unrisd.org/TechAndHumanRights-Williams |
| Description | Blog: The shadow pandemic and domestic violence: the potential role of layoffs and unemployment benefits, VoxEU (13 November 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog was published on VOXEU.org at the time of a global surge in domestic violence since the onset of Covid-19. It provides insights into what may be driving this rise, drawing on evidence from Brazil. Job loss leads to increases in domestic violence, irrespective of whether it is the perpetrator or victim whose job is lost. Both income stress and an increase in time spent together seem to contribute to this. The blog goes on to consider policy intervention such as unemployment benefits which have mitigation potential if they can be supplemented by policies designed to encourage a return to work. The purpose of this activity is to disseminate research based policy analysis to key audiences, including VOXEU.org's main readership of economists working in public sector, private sector, academia, the media and students generally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://voxeu.org/article/job-displacement-unemployment-benefits-and-domestic-violence |
| Description | Blog: What are the effects of lockdown and recession on domestic violence? Economics Observatory of the Royal Economic Society (17 August 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog was published on The Economics Observatory (ECO) blog at the time of a global surge in domestic violence since the onset of Covid-19. It is vital to understand the impact of unemployment, income loss and time spent at home to assess the remedial potential of cash transfers compared to initiatives such as shelters that can help women to escape. The purpose of this activity is to disseminate the HRBDT Project's research to key audiences, including ECO's main readership of economists, policy makers and the general public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.economicsobservatory.com/what-are-effects-lockdown-and-recession-domestic-violence |
| Description | Blog: Cybersecurity and Human Rights: Some Reflections (March 29 2018) (Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In January 2018 The Bury St Edmunds Amnesty International Group and West Suffolk College co-organised a conference on Cybersecurity and Human Rights. Discussion themes included the behaviour of online offenders from a psychological perspective and the opportunities and challenges in the digital age from a human rights perspective. A series of workshops were also conducted to address the practical elements of these issues. This blog post summarises key lessons from the workshops conducted, and some reflections. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/cybersecurity-and-human-rights-some-reflections/ |
| Description | Blog: GCHQ's Ethical Approach to AI: An Initial Human Rights-Based Response. (Intel website, March 2021) (Pete Fussey and Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In this blog for the about:intel website on 5 March 2021, Dr Daragh Murray and Prof Pete Fussey considered the UK's intelligence and security agency (GCHQ) new AI and Data Ethics Framework that will guide the agency's future use of AI. They argued that this step towards public engagement and transparency is laudable, but the report's content raises concerns. Namely, it proposes a vague ethical approach rather than a concrete one based on human rights. Moreover, it raises questions as to how GCHQ approaches the "necessary in a democratic society" test used to evaluate the lawfulness of certain measures - especially critical in the field of intelligence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://aboutintel.eu/qchq-ethics-ai/ |
| Description | Blog: Quick Comment on UK Draft Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations 2018 and the Definition of 'Serious Crime' for Bulk Surveillance Powers (3 July 2018) (Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog 'Quick Comment on UK Draft Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations 2018 and the Definition of 'Serious Crime' for Bulk Surveillance Powers' was published on the HRBDT website in July 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/quick-comment-on-uk-draft-data-retention-and-acquisition-regulations-2018-an... |
| Description | Blog: Relationship Between Big Tech and Policing is Shielded Behind Commercial Confidentiality - It's a Problem' (The Conversation, August 2021) (Katerina Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog was published on The Conversation website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/relationship-between-big-tech-and-policing-is-shielded-behind-commercial... |
| Description | Blog: Those pop-up 'I agree' boxes aren't just annoying - they're potentially dangerous (December 2018) (Sabrina Rau) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog ('Those pop-up 'I agree' boxes aren't just annoying - they're potentially dangerous') was first published in the Conversation and later on the HRBDT website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/those-pop-up-i-agree-boxes-arent-just-annoying-theyre-potentially-danger... |
| Description | Blog: Vicarious Trauma of the Private Counter-Terror Workforce: Extending the Duty of Care (August 2017) (Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog 'Vicarious Trauma of the Private Counter-Terror Workforce: Extending the Duty of Care' was published on the HRBDT and Human Rights Centre websites. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/vicarious-trauma-of-the-private-counter-terror-workforce-extending-the-duty-... |
| Description | Blog: What Next After the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Revelations? (28 July 2018) (Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog provides an overview of panel discussions the HRBDT Project co-hosted with the International Law Program at Chatham House, on 'What Next After the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Revelations?' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/what-next-after-the-facebook-and-cambridge-analytica-revelations-2/ |
| Description | Blog:AI's Role in COVID-19 Poses Human Rights Risks Beyond Privacy (Carmel Williams) (01 September 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'There is little doubt that AI can advance healthcare products and services, but it is important to question whether it can do so without risking freedoms, protections, and entitlements afforded by human rights'. This blog explored these questions through the lens of Covid-19, examining 'firstly, where the technology is being used to detect, monitor, and control the spread of the virus; and secondly, in the development of vaccines, diagnostic tools, and medical treatments'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/ais-role-in-covid-19-poses-human-rights-risks-beyond-privacy/ |
| Description | Breakfast Seminar on Data-Driven Technologies and State Surveillance: Interactions between Government and Business (Sheldon Leader, Peter Fussey and Krisztina Huszti-Orban) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The breakfast seminar, co-organised by the Law Society of England and Wales and the HRBDT Project, presented the Project's research on the human rights implications of the ways in which businesses cooperate with state requests for user data, especially in case of requests justified by national security and public order interests. The seminar is part of a series of events co-organised with the Law Society showcasing the research undertaken by the Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Bridging the Gender Digital Divide from a Human Rights Perspective (Krisztina Huszti-Orban and Amy Dickens) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A blog post summarising the Project's submission in contribution to the report on ways to bridge the gender digital divide from a human rights perspective by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/bridging-the-gender-digital-divide-from-a-human-rights-perspective/ |
| Description | Chair of Question Time-Themed Event on the Future of Surveillance Cameras (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey chaired a large public event hosted at the LSE with a prestigious panel of surveillance experts and leading practitioners, including Silkie Carlo (Director of Big Brother Watch), Tony Porter (Surveillance Camera Commissioner), Lord Brian Paddick (Lords Spokesperson for Home Affairs), Simon Israel (Senior Home Affairs Correspondent, Chanel 4 News) and Mike Barton (Chief Constable of Durham Constabulary and National Police Lead for Crime Operations). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/all-media/the-future-of-surveillance-cameras-in-the-uk-a-question-tim... |
| Description | Chaired and co-organised a panel session on 'What works in health messaging? New international research' (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra chaired a session on "health messaging" that included as panelists Charles Alessie (Public Health England) and Patrick Ladbury (National Social Marketing Foundation). The audience consisted primarily of economists and epidemiologists working on health. The purpose was to increase knowledge exchange between Third Sector organizations, government and researchers. Awareness was clearly raised on both sides and some of the academics at the workshop are likely to have approached the PHE and NSMF for collaborative purposes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Chairing of a panel at "The Future of Human-Centered AI" conference (Stanford University, 16 April 2019) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor was invited to chair a panel on 'Protecting Privacy, Free Expression and Democracy' at the high-level HRBDT co-sponsored international conference on "The Future of Human-Centered AI: Governance Innovation and Protection of Human Rights" organised by the Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/content/human-centered-ai |
| Description | Co-organised Roundtable with the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility on the implementation of the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech in the online space (Webinar, 2-4 June 2020) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor, Ahmed Shaheed, Elena Abrusci from HRBDT, together with the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, convened a roundtable to discuss the implementation of the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech in the online space. More than 30 participants from leading tech companies, civil society, UN agencies, UN Special Procedure mandates and academia joined the discussion, which explored, through three sessions, different aspects and challenges of addressing online hate speech. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Colchester Gazette - Trailblazing Essex University Human Rights Project Uses Computers to Highlight Abuse (Klaus McDonald-Maier) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Report in regional newspaper on research in using computer vision to aid the detection of human rights violations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/local/15383768.Trailblazing_human_rights_project_uses_computers_t... |
| Description | Commentary on UK Poverty Report and Big Data (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty released a report on the UK which included a critique of the use of Big Data - this blog highlighted the critique |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://hrbdt.ac.uk/un-austerity-and-human-rights-report-highlights-big-data-risks-in-the-uk-2/ |
| Description | Commented on facial recognition technology in an article published by The New Statesman (9th September 2020) (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey comments on Live Facial Recognition were included in an article published by the New Statesman. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/security/2020/09/what-facial-recognition-technology-means |
| Description | Commented on racial bias and police uses of surveillance in an article published by The New Statesman (2nd September 2020) (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey commented on racial bias and police uses of surveillance in an article published by The New Statesman, "The Met Police didn't check if facial recognition tech was racist before trialling it." Pete referred to the HRBDT published report into the use of Live Facial Recognition technology by a UK police force and the South Wales police trials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://tech.newstatesman.com/public-sector/the-met-police-didnt-check-if-facial-recognition-tech-wa... |
| Description | Commented on the NHS contact tracing app in the Financial Times (24 September 2020) (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey commented on the NHS contact tracing app in an article published by the Financial Times, "Revamped NHS tracing app gets off to promising start". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ft.com/content/c0c42341-4dda-4c89-9a28-8d14d129c8b2 |
| Description | Computing Multiple Systems Estimation in R (Author: Patrick Ball) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is a semi-technical introduction to estimating undocumented events by using multiple, intersecting datasets. The point of Multiple System Estimation (MSE) is to use multiple, partial lists of a population to estimate the total population. The method depends on the integration of the lists, in which records that refer to the same elements of the population (called "co-referent" records) are linked in clusters. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://hrdag.org/tech-notes/basic-mse.html |
| Description | Conceptualising Identity in the Digital Age and its Effect on Human Rights Protection - Bytes, Bodies and Souls: Interrogating Human Digitalisation Conference, University of Kent (Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 30 May 2017, Vivian Ng presented a draft paper on 'Conceptualising Identity in the Digital Age and its Effect on Human Rights Protection' on the 'Human Digitalisation' panel at the Eastern ARC Workshop 'Bytes, Bodies and Souls: Interrogating Human Digitalisation'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/bytesbodiessoul |
| Description | Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | presentation of our research at SBE [Brazilian Econometric Society] 2018 Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Consent presentation at Essex Human Rights cluster, 15 May |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | approx 15 people attended the research cluster and asked challenging questions and gave new perspectives to issues around consent online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Contributed to Roundtable Discussion on AI in Policing at Reform Event with Accenture and Chief Constable of Essex police (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Reform event was a collaboration with Essex Police and Accenture to scope out the future of artificial intelligence in policing. Pete Fussey was invited to discuss the role of ethics in such practices. This has led to subsequent invites to engage with both the police and industry on these issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Convened together with Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation and the World Jewish Congress two regional consultations between technology and social media companies and Jewish Communities of Ten OSCE states on combating antisemitism online. (7 July 2021 and 17 January 2022) (Ahmed Shaheed) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Convened together with Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation and the World Jewish Congress two regional consultations between technology and social media companies and Jewish Communities of Ten OSCE states on combating antisemitism online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism Online: What Role for Social Media Platforms? - Internet Governance Forum 2017 (Krisztina Huszti Orban) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Krisztina Huszti Orban was invited to present her chapter on 'Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism Online: What Role for Social Media Platforms?' at the 2017 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in the context of the discussion organised by the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://sched.co/CTqv |
| Description | Daragh Murray Expert meeting Fundamental Rights Agency Vienna |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EU FRA Expert Meeting on Big Data and Fundamental Rights, Vienna (focus on discrimination) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://fra.europa.eu/en/event/2018/mapping-impact-big-data-fundamental-rights |
| Description | Data Driven Policing: Highlighting Some Risks Associated with Predicting Crime (Ajay Sandhu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog summarises the HRBDT Project's submission to Home Affairs Committee's Policing for the Future Inquiry. The submission summarised the opportunities and risks associated with the police's adoption of 'data driven technologies,' which aid the bulk collection, storage, and analysis of data about persons, places, and practices. Data driven technologies can improve the efficiency of police work by offering law enforcement agencies methods of analysing crime data and generating predictions about crime that is yet to take place. However, existing research indicates a series of risks that must be considered when adopting data driven technologies. This submission highlights three risks associated with data driven technologies, focusing on: the quality of the input data, the potential for discriminatory decision-making, and privacy harms. This blog recaps the conclusion of the Project's submission by highlighting the risks associated with data driven technologies used to predict crimes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/data-driven-policing-highlighting-some-risks-associated-with-predicting-crime... |
| Description | Data Governance Roundtable, organised by the British Academy and The Royal Society (Maurice Sunkin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Maurice Sunkin participated in a roundtable meeting concerned with data governance. Presentations were given by experts - and discussion was stimulated - on matters including: gaps in the legislative/governance landscape; challenges facing data governance; the role of law and regulation; different approaches to data governance across jurisdictions; governance tools and techniques in a European context; developing principles to inform governance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Data Protection Law Liability and User Generated Content: Ways Forward Under the GDPR (David Erdos) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | David Erdos presented a conference paper on 'Data protection law liability and user generated content: ways forward under the GDPR' at the Privacy Laws and Business conference in Cambridge, the chair being Elizabeth Denham (UK Information Commissioner). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Data for Social Change | An Interview with Andrew Stott (Daniel Marciniak and Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Co-authored blog by Daniel Marciniak and Vivian Ng from an interview with Andrew Stott (former Director for Transparency and Digital Environment for the UK Government), who presented at the 'Big Data, Big Brother' panel at the Talk Big Data seminar series in November 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/data-for-social-change-an-interview-with-andrew-stott/ |
| Description | Discuss with Ministry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | National Secretary of Primary Care (Ministry of Health) visited my coauthor Prof Rudi Rocha in Sao Paolo University to discuss results of our research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Doxing and White Nationalists' Right to Privacy (Ajay Sandhu and Daniel Marciniak) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog, authored by Ajay Sandhu and Daniel Marciniak, considers the potential impact of anti-racist doxing campaigns, including the risky consequences of denying white nationalists' their privacy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/doxing-and-white-nationalists-right-to-privacy/ |
| Description | ESRC Festival of Social Science Film interview (November 2020, University of Essex) (Sonia Bhalotra and Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | What is Social Science? was a short film produced for the Festival of Social Science 2020. The film highlighted how the social sciences make a difference to the world today and explored questions such as: How can an economist help to address domestic violence? What can a sociologist do to improve policing techniques? The film included interviews with leading academics at the Faculty of Social Sciences including HRBDT researchers Prof Pete Fussey and Prof Sonia Bhalotra who spoke about their research into surveillance technology and the long run benefit of universal investment in child health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/471012421 |
| Description | Embedding Human Rights in Internet Governance (Lorna McGregor, Daragh Murray, Ahmed Shaheed and Catherine Kent) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EJIL:Talk! blog that discusses the WSIS+10 review, opportunities and challenges presented by the use of ICT and big data and a human rights based approach to Internet governance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ejiltalk.org/embedding-human-rights-in-internet-governance/ |
| Description | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel - 'Free informed and unambiguous consent in the digital age: fiction or possibility', HRBDT website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | informed a wider audience of the discussions that occured during the UK Law Society Event on "Free, informed and unambiguous consent in the digital age: fiction or possibility'. Allowed for key messages ot resonate with a larger audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://hrbdt.ac.uk/free-informed-and-unambiguous-consent-in-the-digital-age-fiction-or-possibility/ |
| Description | Essex Police Hothouse Event at BT (Adastral Park) (Ajay Sandhu and Peter Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues participated in a hothouse event with police officers and police agents from across the UK. The hothouse was intended to creatively discuss new technologically supported methods of addressing specific crime control issues. Researchers used this opportunity to develop their network of research participants and gather data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Ethics workshop on open source investigations (Colchester, January 2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 25 specialists in open source investigation and researchers from the HRBDT team were brought together to explore both the ethical and human-rights based tensions around open source investigations for the benefit of improving and sharing experiences on ethical approaches to human rights open source research, to feed the research being done in the HRBDT project, in particular around building tools to assist the open source community and to inform the forthcoming protocol on open source investigati |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Event on 'Businesses as Gatekeepers of Online Content: A Human Rights Approach', co-organised with the Law Society, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event attracted a wide range of practitioners and urged participants to express changes in views and requesting more information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Event on 'Free, informed and unambiguous consent in the digital age: fiction or possibility?', co-organised with the Law Society, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This activity resulted in a change of views by the audience and requests for further information from the panlists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://hrbdt.ac.uk/free-informed-and-unambiguous-consent-in-the-digital-age-fiction-or-possibility/ |
| Description | Examining how the data economy could threaten primary health care (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog was initially published on the website of the Health and Human Rights Journal, then on the HRBDT blog |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.hhrjournal.org/2018/09/alma-ata-at-40-its-values-are-relevant-to-the-data-economy/ |
| Description | Expert Consultation for Developing an Action Plan for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism (The Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights and UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief) (15-16 November 2021) (Ahmed Shaheed) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A virtual stakeholder consultation entitled 'Developing an Action Plan for Monitoring and Combating Global Antisemitism' was convened on 15-16 November 2021 by AJC's Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights at the request of and together with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ahmed Shaheed. The Special Rapporteur was able to discuss trends in antisemitism and efforts to combat it that took place from 2019 to 2021 with representatives of intergovernmental organizations, governmental envoys on antisemitism, and representatives of antisemitism monitoring organizations and Jewish communities from around the world. Participants joined the consultation from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, France, Italy, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They included the European Commission's Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism; the Commissioner to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism for the Organization of American States; Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism; and the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Antisemitism for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Numerous recommendations were made for the action plan as a result of the consultation - see URL for full report of the expert consultation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.jbi-humanrights.org/JBI%20SR%20FORB%20Antisemitism%20Consultation.pdf |
| Description | Expert Meeting with OHCHR and Korea University on non-state grievance mechanisms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended by a large variety of participants, the expert meeting in Korea brought together a wide range of stakeholders to discuss non-state grievance mechanisms in the digital age. Prof. Lorna McGregor gave the welcoming remarks at the start of the conference, gave a presentation on human rights implications of AI, and co-chaired the session on "Access to Remedy Through Non-State-Based Grievance Mechanisms in the Technology Sector". Sabrina Rau presented on "UN responses to the HR Impact of New and Emerging Technologies" The session that was organised was a short panel followed by 2 scenario questions that sparked the interest of the attendees and brought about interesting discussions about this topic. Individuals reported increased interest in the subject and acknowledged their increased awareness of human rights in the digital space through the session. We also learned more about local perceptions which is useful to our research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://sskhumanrights.org/the-12th-asia-human-rights-forum-human-rights-business-and-technology-an-e... |
| Description | Exploratory Workshop on Citizen Involvement in the Use of Data Analytics in the Public Sector organised by the University of Cardiff (Cardiff, 7 June 2019) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | HRBDT was invited to join an expert closed workshop at the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University to examine how citizens' voices can be heard and participation ensured as algorithms and new and emerging technologies are developed and used by governments. HRBDT contributed its research on the human rights impact of the use of algorithms and how international human rights standards and norms can form the basis for the right to participation, protect citizens' rights and ensure accountability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in the Context of State Surveillance Activities? (Vivian Ng and Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Co-authored blog by Vivian Ng and Daragh Murray examining the Investigatory Powers Tribunal decision in the case of Human Rights Watch & Others v The Secretary of State for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office & Others. The blog lays out issues for consideration should further claims be made to challenge the Tribunal's decision. Following publication, a new syllabus on International Law and Politics of Cyberspace at FGV Direito Rio included the blog post as compulsory reading. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/extraterritorial-human-rights-obligations-in-the-context-o... |
| Description | First Meeting of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on the Human Rights Dimensions of Automated Data Processing and AI (MSI-AUT) (Catherine Kent) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Kent participated in the first meeting of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on the human rights dimensions of automated data processing and AI (MSI-AUT) in Strasbourg. Key contacts were made and further information about the Project was requested. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.coe.int/en/web/freedom-expression/msi-aut |
| Description | First Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy to the Human Rights Council (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EJIL:Talk! blog that discusses the first report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy to the Human Rights Council, including the scope of the mandate, safeguards, oversight and remedies, the definition of privacy and connecting initiatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ejiltalk.org/first-report-of-the-un-special-rapporteur-on-the-right-to-privacy-to-the-hum... |
| Description | GIZ-led panel on 'Disinformation, human rights law and the Global South', FoME2019 (Bonn, 7 November 2019) (Elena Abrusci) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | GIZ invited HRBDT to share our current research on disinformation and human rights to a panel organised within the 2019 FoME Symposium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Global consultation on the role of national human rights institutions (NHRIs) in facilitating access to remedy for business related human rights abuses (Geneva, 10 -11 October 2019) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor was invited to present her research on the role of NHRIs in facilitating access to justice for victims, particularly in the context of the tech sector, either by providing a dispute resolution themselves or by supporting victims in accessIng corporate grievance mechanisms or state-based remedies. This presentation also drew on research previously carried out with the support of the Nuffield Foundation on the role of NHRIs in facilitating access to justice generally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | HRBDT Conference, Geneva |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event brought together a wide range of practitioners with whom HRBDT has been able to continue successful work relationships. Participants noted changes in views following presentations and discussions and new collaboration opportunities came about. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://1ing2s14id7e20wtc8xsceyr-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/HRBDT-Full-Confe... |
| Description | HRBDT Public Lecture, "Algorithmic Accountability and Human Rights" (London, 26 March 2019) (Lorna McGregor and Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | This event offered the occasion to present and discuss our research and position on the importance of a human rights-based approach for algorithmic design, use and application. 43 people attended and in the feedback provided by participants, 7 people believed the talk would inform their future work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/hrbdt-public-panel-discussion-algorithmic-accountability-and-human-rights-26... |
| Description | HRBDT Public Lecture, "Facial Recognition and Human Rights" (London, 10 September 2019) (Pete Fussey and Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The HRBDT project hosted a panel discussion at on "Facial Recognition and Human Rights". The panelists discussed operational aspects of the technology and how it may impact police performance, they examined the human rights implications, and considered if and how this technology can be regulated. Following the presentations there was a time of questions and discussion from the audience. Feedback forms from the event suggested that opinions about Live Facial Recognition had been changed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/hrbdt-public-panel-discussion-facial-recognition-and-human-rights-10-septemb... |
| Description | HRBDT Public Lecture, "Your data: why should you care" (Colchester, 3 December 2019) (Sabrina Rau, Elena Abrusci, Amy Dickens) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 27 members of the public attended this lecture which included presentations which covered topics such as the challenges and implications of providing consent online, disinformation, fake news, online targeting and the use of data-driven technologies such as artificial intelligence in the healthcare sector. The audience asked a variety of questions afterwards and reported that the event was thought provoking and they would change their online behaviour as a result. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/your-data-why-should-you-care-video/ |
| Description | HRBDT expert meeting on consent online (Colchester, 23 May) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This full day expert meeting brought together a range of stakeholders to discuss the challenges of consent online. The meeting allowed for development of diverse views and arguments and progressed HRBDT's development of consent guidelines. Participants noted the usefulness and importance of the meeting. This meeting led to closer relationships with the participants as well as helped the development ad thinking of HRBDT colleagues working on consent online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | HRBDT panel series (Webinar, 23 February 2022) (Various colleagues) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The HRBDT project organised three online panel discussions. The purpose was to represent the culmination of the project and highlight main findings across the project's interdisciplinary themes of research, discussed and debated by expert panellists. Panel themes were: - Machine Learning and Protecting Forcibly Displaced Persons - Interdisciplinary Interaction With Professor Geoff Gilbert, University of Essex, Bruno Queiros Arcanjo, University of Essex and Sofia Kyriazi, Innovation Service, UNHCR. - Violence Against Women: Evidence From Administrative Data With Dr Cyprien Batut, Paris School of Economics, Dr Nadine Ketel, VU Amsterdam, Prof Tom Kirchmieir, LSE Centre for Economic Performance, Director Policing and Crime and Prof Sonia Bhalotra Warwick, University of Essex. - Interdisciplinary Engagement in Practice: Internal and External Factors With Professor Geoff Gilbert, University of Essex, Professor Pete Fussey, University of Essex and Rebeca Moreno Jimenez, Innovation Service, UNHCR. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | HRBDT-HUJI expert workshop on human rights and algorithms in decision-making (London, 15 May 2019) (Daragh Murray, Lorna McGregor, Maurice Sunkin, Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The workshop on 'Human Rights and Algorithms in Decision-Making' was co-hosted by the HRBDT and The Federmann Cyber Security Center - Cyber Law Program at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The meeting addressed the human rights implications of the use of algorithms in decision-making, discussed the case for a right to human decision-making and considered if and when a fully automated decision would be permissible under IHRL or even desirable. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | HRBDT-URG Side Event at Human Rights Council 40th Session, "The Digital Society and Human Rights: Putting Human Rights at the Heart of the Design, Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence" (Geneva ,14 March 2019) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Side event at the Human Rights Council 40th Session organised to present and discuss the HRBDT report on the Universal Declaration and Artificial Intelligence. The event was co-sponsored by HRBDT, Universal Rights Group, Geneva Academy and the governments of Germany and the Republic of Korea. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Harnessing Big Data for Patient Empowerment: An Interview with Nathan Lea (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Blog written by Carmel Williams interviewing a speaker, Nathan Lea, who presented at the Talk Big Data series at the University of Essex (November 2016). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/harnessing-big-data-for-patient-empowerment-an-interview-with-dr-nathan-lea/ |
| Description | Health and Gender: Global and Economic Perspectives Conference (Sonia Bhalotra and Paul Hunt) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This conference brought together new research on inequality in health, with a special focus on maternal health, the pre-school years and the design of public policy. Paul Hunt and Sonia Bhalotra both presented preliminary findings on the Brazil case study, Paul Hunt analysing this from a right to health perspective, and Sonia Bhalotra providing an economic analysis of the benefits of the family health program on the health of women and children in Brazil. Sonia has obtained further funding based upon a track record of research in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/events/conferences/2016-09-23 |
| Description | Human Rights Practice in the Digital Age Workshop (Sam Dubberley, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Baekkwan Park and Steve Zimmerman) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This workshop co-hosted and co-organised by the Centre for Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge and the HRBDT Project brought together scholars and practitioners working in a range of disciplines (computer science, law, media and communications, political science, and sociology). The day was divided up into four themed sessions: (1) Human rights fact-finding innovations in the digital age; (2) Representing and advocating for human rights in the digital age; (3) Clashes between new technologies and existing practices; and (4) and Risk and human rights practice in the digital age. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/human-rights-practice-in-the-digital-age-workshop/ |
| Description | Human Rights in the Digital Age: The Perils of Big Data and Technology (Part II) (Vivian Ng and Catherine Kent) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Co-authored introductory blog by Vivian Ng and Cath Kent on the perils of big data and technology for human rights in the digital age. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/human-rights-in-the-digital-age-the-perils-of-big-data-and-technology-part-ii... |
| Description | Human Rights in the Digital Age: The Promises of Big Data and Technology (Part I) (Vivian Ng and Catherine Kent) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Co-authored introductory blog by Vivian Ng and Catherine Kent on the promises of big data and technology for human rights in the digital age. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/human-rights-in-the-digital-age-the-promises-of-big-data-and-technology-part-... |
| Description | International Business Conversations Youtube |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Basic introduction to human rights and the intersection with technology and the relevance of business and human rights in this context. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | International Day for Universal Access to Information: Artificial Intelligence, e-Governance and Access to Information |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Fasli was a panel moderator and speaker at th eInternational Day for Universal Access to Information: Artificial Intelligence, e-Governance and Access to Information conference organised by UNESCO in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and contributed to the Tashkent Declaration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://events.unesco.org/event?id=1031265894 |
| Description | Internet Governance Forum 2015 (Ahmed Shaheed and Catherine Kent) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral submission made by Ahmed Shaheed at an IGF session and questions raised by both Ahmed Shaheed and Catherine Kent during IGF sessions, raising awareness of the Project and debating the human rights based approach to Internet governance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/ |
| Description | Interview for Inter Press Service News Agency Article on World's Poor Trailing Far Behind Rich in Digital Technology (Ahmed Shaheed) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An interview with Ahmed Shaheed for an Inter Press Service News Agency article on 'World's Poor Trailing Far Behind Rich in Digital Technology'. This followed the Project's two submissions to the WSIS+10 Review, which is discussed therein. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/12/worlds-poor-trailing-far-behind-rich-in-digital-technology/ |
| Description | Interview for ProPublica Article on So What the Hell Is Doxxing? (Ajay Sandhu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Ajay Sandhu was interviewed and cited for Decca Muldowney's What the Hell is Doxxing? article on ProPublica. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.propublica.org/article/so-what-the-hell-is-doxxing |
| Description | Interview for Why Refusing to Give Up Passwords is Illegal under UK Terror Law By Chris Baraniuk, New Scientist (Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Daragh Murray for a contribution to a New Scientist article on judicial oversight of the police's Schedule 7 powers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/2148644-why-refusing-to-give-up-passwords-is-illegal-under-uk-t... |
| Description | Interview on 'Fake News', BBC Radio Essex (3 December 2019) (Elena Abrusci) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC Radio Essex contacted us for an interview on fake news and their impact on individuals and society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Interview on Sky News (July 2019) (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey was interviewed by Sky News following the publication of the project's report into the use of Live Facial Recognition by the Metropolitan Police. The interview was shown on Sky News as part of a feature on Live Facial Recognition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEEUFOj6pcU |
| Description | Interview with BBC Radio 4 (August 2019) (Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Daragh Murray was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's PM programme. Daragh highlighted the human rights and public interest considerations following news that facial recognition has been deployed around Kings Cross by a private company. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/bbc-radio-4-interview-facial-recognition/ |
| Description | Interview with BBC Radio Essex (June 2019) (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey was interviewed on BBC Radio Essex talking about his role leading the human rights, data and technology strand of the National Surveillance Camera Strategy. Pete described how digital innovation has driven the development of ever more sophisticated surveillance tools. But their increased use, coupled with the development of new technologies such as drones, face recognition and body worn cameras, has resulted in an increased need to ensure that technology used to uphold public safety is proportionate and appropriate and also respects our rights and freedoms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/bbc-radio-essex-interview-surveillance-technology/ |
| Description | Interview with Forces TV discussing Cambridge Analytica (Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Forces TV, discussing analytics, Cambridge Analytica |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Interview with Sycomore-am on HRBDT "At the crossroads of big data and human rights" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This interview allowed HRBDT to get more visibility and to present its views to a different audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://en.sycomore-am.com/files/T/h/5d88cd23-The_Responsible_Way_11_The_Good_in_Tech.pdf |
| Description | Interviewed and research featured in two articles on facial recognition in the Nature Research Journal (November 2020) (Pete Fussey and Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey and Daragh Murray were quoted in two articles in the Nature Research Journal discussing facial recognition. 'Is facial recognition too biased to be let loose?' highlights the ethical and privacy concerns raised by Pete and Daragh in their independent review of the London Metropolitan Police's trials of facial recognition technology. Prof Pete Fussey also contributed to 'Resisting the rise of facial recognition' in which he comments on the overselling of the technology's capability to reduce crime. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03188-2 |
| Description | Investigating Human Rights Violations in the Digital Age (Sam Dubberley) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sam Dubberley participated in a panel discussion with Alexa Koenig (Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley School of Law) and Hugh Williamson (Human Rights Watch), which was moderated by Basak Çali (Hertie School). This panel discussion discussed: how has digitalisation changed investigating, verifying and reporting on human rights violations? How have digital sources and big data been successful in investigating human rights violations? How can digital techniques be used in human rights work to affect change, address attribution of responsibility and fight impunity? What are the pitfalls and ethical concerns with using digital sources in human rights investigations? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.hertie-school.org/en/events/event-previews/2017/investigating-human-rights-digital-age/ |
| Description | Invited as guest lecturer to Presentation at the Business and Human Rights Summer School by the Human Rights International Corner and University on "Big Data, AI, Business and Human Rights" (Sheldon Leader and Sabrina Rau) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a presentation on "Big Data, AI, Business and Human Rights" teaching a two hour seminar as part of the Business and Human Rights Summer School that was intended to take place in Italy but instead occurred online. International audience from diverse sectors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.prorights.org/business-and-human-rights-summer-school-3rd-edition.html |
| Description | Invited talk on 'When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: Multiword expressions and idiomaticity' at The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (Florence, 2 August 2019) (Aline Villavicencio) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Aline Villavicencio gave an invited presentation at the Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet at ACL 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_03_MWE-WN_2019___lb__ACL__rb__ |
| Description | Invited to record Podcast by Signals Talk Time Project on "'With Great Reliance Comes Great Responsibility: The Role of Technology Companies during Covid-19.'" (Sabrina Rau) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sabrina Rau was Invited to record Podcast by Signals Talk Time Project on "'With Great Reliance Comes Great Responsibility: The Role of Technology Companies during Covid-19.'" due to come out in the following weeks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Keynote Talk at Pre-Conference of International Health Economics Association Workshop (Rodrigo Saures) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 4 July 2017, research collaborator and co-author Rodrigo Saures presented findings on the Brazil Family Health project at a research seminar at a Brazilian research centre (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Keynote lecture on "The value of the new ignorance studies" (Linsey McGoey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to deliver the keynote address on ignorance and non-knowledge: what consequences for democratic governance, politics and policy at the University of Vienna |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote speech on 'Why Human Rights Matter in the Design, Development and Deployment of New and Emerging Tech' at FUZZ-IEEE 2021 (webinar, July 13 2021) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor gave a keynote speech on 'Why Human Rights Matter in the Design, Development and Deployment of New and Emerging Tech' at the FUZZ-IEEE 2021 conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://attend.ieee.org/fuzzieee-2021/program-overview/ |
| Description | Keynote speech on Human Rights Implications of New and Emerging Technologies at the Not-Equal Summer School on Social Justice and the Digital Economy (webinar, 7th June 2021) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor gave a speech on 'Human Rights Implications of New and Emerging Technologies' during The Evolution of Social Justice in the age of Networks and Machine Learning webinar as part of the Not-Equal Network+ Summer School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://not-equal.tech/summerschool/ |
| Description | Keynote talk on: Strategic ignorance and political economy (Linsey McGoey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote at the 6th-annual Unintended Consequences conference, co-organized by the University of Warsaw and the Polish Sociological Association |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Knowing all of the law, all of the time - responding to Covid 19 (Geoff Gilbert) (14 May 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this post Prof Geoff Gilbert discusses COVID-19 and displaced people. He argues that a successful response to COVID-19 in humanitarian settings will depend partly on ensuring humanitarian actors in the field are aware of key laws, so as to ensure that governments fulfil their obligations and displaced persons do not fail to obtain their rights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/publication/knowing-all-law-all-time-%E2%80%93-responding-covid... |
| Description | Leadership, Leverage and the Special Challenges of Big Data - 2016 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights (Sheldon Leader and Krisztina Huszti-Orban) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, together with the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and the Institute for Human Rights and Business, organised a panel in the context of the 2016 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, where Sheldon Leader participated as a panellist. The session was centred around the following topics: defining big data and setting a link with human rights principles via the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; addressing the challenges posed by the use of big data for identifying good business leadership in standard setting and enforcement; exploring ways for responsible collection and use of data by government and business, given the vast amount of new knowledge about possible human rights impacts, both positive and negative. Several members of the audience approached members of the Project to inquire about the Project and modalities for cooperation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Business/ForumSession5/Nov16/LeadershipLeverage.pdf |
| Description | Leveraging New Sources of Data for Human Rights Protection without Harming the Individual at RightsCon 2017 (Sam Dubberley and Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sam Dubberley organised and spoke, along with Lorna McGregor, on panel at the international conference RightsCon in Brussels, Belgium in March 2017. This is the largest and most important technology and human rights event globally. The panel aimed to address the ethical concerns raised out of research on advancing human rights and humanitarian responses - namely how to use big data technologies without causing harm to the subject of research. The panel brought together several academic and professional experts in the area, and the audience was a wide-range of human rights practitioners engaged with technology and big data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Lightning talk on 'Artificial intelligence and human rights for media development', FoME 2019 (Bonn, 8 November 2019) (Elena Abrusci) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to deliver the lightning talk on Artificial Intelligence during the plenary of the FoME 2019 Symposium with more than 100 people attending. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPFUp6XYhMs |
| Description | Live interview with CNBC Arabia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave a live interview on CNBC Arabia regarding the revelations around Cambridge Analytica and Facebook's use of individuals' data. Addressed issues relating to businesses' human rights responsibilities, and the key human rights concerns around such practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting of academia and think thanks with Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy in the digital age Joe Cannataci on his UK visit, co-organised with Chatham House, London (Lorna McGregor, Pete Fussey, Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosted meeting of academia and think thanks with Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy in the digital age Joe Cannataci on his UK visit, co-organised with Chatham House, London. Facilitated dialogue between the Special Rapporteur and experts, for contribution to the Special Rapporteur's official country report on the UK. This contributed to further engagement with the mandate on issues around privacy in the digital age, and the project contributed a written submission. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting of the UN's Global Protection Cluster at University of Essex |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The UN's Global Protection Cluster held a closed symposium on mainstreaming Age, Gender & Diversity and Data. The GPC is responsible for the protection of 130 million persons affected by conflict, and in particular the 43 million internally displaced persons in 27 operations across the world |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Guy Cohen (Privitar Ltd) (Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge) (Krzysztof Garstka) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Krzysztof Garstka met with Guy Cohen during a visit organised by the Centre for Science and Policy. The conversation focused on anonymisation of personal data, in the light of big data analytics. Krzysztof provided Guy with new information on the interplay between privacy and data protection. Additionally, Krzysztof made Guy aware of various initiatives undertaken within the HRBDT Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Sarah Connolly (Director, Security and Online Harms at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)) (Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge) (Krzysztof Garstka) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Krzysztof Garstka met with Sarah Connolly during a visit organised by the Centre for Science and Policy. The conversation focused on regulation of illicit content online. Krzysztof proposed various legal and regulatory solutions to the issues currently faced by the DCMS. Additionally, Krzysztof made Sarah aware of various initiatives undertaken within the HRBDT Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Mentioned our Research Results at a British Academy Panel Debate on Global Inequalities (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Under Engagement: Sonia Bhalotra made mention of our research results at a British Academy Panel Debate on Global Inequalities on 29 Nov at the Royal Society in London, where she was a panellist who discussed maternal and child health and universal health coverage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Microsoft Human Rights Roundtable (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The meeting was convened on 5 July 2016 for Microsoft to solicit external input for the company's Vision 2020 strategy roadmap to enhance its implementation of the UN Guiding Principles. Lorna McGregor was invited to provide expertise from a human rights perspective. The roundtable enabled networking and developed relationships with a broad range of participants, including other academics, non-governmental organisations, and socially responsible investors. The Vision 2020 strategy was finalised and approved at the end of 2016 and will be publicly released in November 2017. The roadmap contains four work streams: class leading due diligence, rights aware decision making, transparent leadership and proactive engagement. The first year of recommendations are in the process of being implemented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Microsoft and the European Business Network for Corporate Social Responsibility Roundtable on Advancing Human Rights in the Era of Big Data (Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Daragh Murray participated in an informal roundtable on 'Advancing Human Rights in the Era of Big Data', organised by Microsoft and the European Business Network for Corporate Social Responsibility, where he made a presentation entitled 'The International Framework'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.csreurope.org/roundtable-advancing-human-rights-era-big-data#.WMcp_xLyhp- |
| Description | Ministry of health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 2nd Ministry of Health Workshop on Health Policy Impact Evaluation, Fiocruz BA/CIDACS, see http://cidacs.bahia.fiocruz.br/?lang=en |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://cidacs.bahia.fiocruz.br/?lang=en |
| Description | Ministry/World Bank |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Ministry of Health & Worldbank Workshop on Data Science in Brazil |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Moderation and organisation of 'Article 19 and HRBDT's Tech Red-Lines Roundtable' (online event, 5 July 2021) (Lorna McGregor, Alexandra Ziaka) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the meeting was to convene civil society actors who have extensively worked on facial recognition and have advocated for bans or moratoriums in order to discuss about the circumstances where this technology should not be used or what regulatory framework needs to be adopted before this technology is used. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Moderation and organisation of 'Multi-stakeholder roundtable on the implementation of the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech' (online event, 4-5 May 2021) (Lorna McGregor, Ahmed Shaheed, Alexandra Ziaka) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 4-5 May 2021, the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect and the ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project at the University of Essex convened a roundtable to discuss the implementation of the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech in the online space. More than fifty participants from major tech companies, civil society, UN agencies and Special Procedure mandates, and academia joined the discussion, which explored, through two sessions the status of implementation of the recommendations from the first roundtable on addressing and countering online hate speech held on the 2-4 June 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Module on Human Rights in the Era of Big Data and Analytics at the Institute for Analytics and Data Science's Summer School (Daragh Murray and Catherine Kent) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Postgraduate students, academics and practitioners attended a Project-run module on 'Human Rights in the Era of Big Data and Analytics' at the Institute for Analytics and Data Science's Summer School (September 2016 and July 2017). This sparked questions and discussions afterwards on the human rights implications of big data and associated technology in the digital age. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | https://www.essex.ac.uk/iads/events/summer-school.aspx |
| Description | Motion Systems Perspectives Conference 2016 (Klaus McDonald-Maier) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Klaus McDonald-Maier presented research at the Motion Systems Perspectives conference in Jena, Germany. This was a large conference with academics and media in attendance, and resulted in several related approaches from the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.motionscience.uni-jena.de/conference/ |
| Description | New Technology and Human Rights Project Development Workshop - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) (Catherine Kent, Sheldon Leader and Sabrina Rau) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This project development workshop served as a brainstorming session exploring the intersections between new technology and human rights across a range of dimensions relevant to inclusive, sustainable development. The event's aims were to identify and discuss key questions and areas of research on the issues of human rights and new technology. Participants from academia, civil society and international organisations discussed how to incorporate a human rights-based approach to the challenges and opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and started to develop a collaborative research proposal to further explore these issues. This thematic approach, intentionally broad, covers a range of different questions related to privacy, employment, social security, health care, migration, gender, inequality and social dimensions of sustainable development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BD6AB/(httpEvents)/F77F39E2685939F4C125823500578710?OpenDocument |
| Description | New Zealand Human Rights Commission Workshop on Big Data and Human Rights (Paul Hunt and Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paul Hunt and Carmel Williams were keynote speakers at this workshop, which brought together 25 participants - predominantly policy makers from various government departments in New Zealand. The workshop focused on the importance of human rights when using big data, and the role of big data in holding the government to account for their human rights obligations. The participants engaged actively with the panel, asking insightful questions about their own use of big data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | OHCHR-HRBDT expert meeting on non-state grievance mechanisms in the ICT sector (Tunis, 11 June) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event was co-organised by HRBDT and OHCHR and regarded non -state grievance mechanisms in the ICT sector. Professor Lorna McGregor gave the welcome and introductory remarks for the expert meeting. She additionally presented on the work of the project and chaired two sessions during the expert meeting on "issues involving private grievance mechanisms in the tech sector" and "looking beyond individual companies" This meeting allows for different sectors to voice challenges of grievance mechanisms. This assisted HRBDT research and encouraged partnerships with attendees in the future. HRBDT and OHCHR also planned a further consultation in Seoul as a result of this meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | OHCHR/Global Pulse, Panellist at Expert meeting on 'A Human Rights Based Approach to AI: Practical Solution' (Geneva, 13 November 2019) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor was invited to an invitation only expert meeting on the governance of Artificial Intelligence, organised by the UN Global Pulse, the UN Secretary-General's special initiative on big data and AI and UN Human Rights. The meeting was entitled "A Human Rights-based Approach to AI: Practical Solutions" and focus on the development of a human rights-based approach to AI, with a particular emphasis on identifying practical solutions to address transparency and access to information, accountability for harms caused by AI-supported decisions, and equality and non-discrimination. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Organisation and participation in an expert meeting on 'Disinformation, Misinformation and Human Rights' (London, 11-12 February 2020) (Elena Abrusci, Ahmed Shaheed, Sam Dubberley, Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | This meeting, organised together with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and The Carter Center, sits within the partnership with the two organisations to develop a set of guidelines on how to address online disinformation without further endangering human rights. This was the first of a set of meetings that will culminate in the final document and will also inform our HRBDT report on disinformation and human rights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Organised and convened 1st STS-Network Meeting for the Analysis of Computational Knowledge Production in Domestic Security Practices (Bremen, 13-14 September 2019) (Daniel Marciniak) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Daniel Marciniak organised this workshop which focused on interdisciplinary network-building, especially with the intent to bring together researchers from social sciences, law and computational sciences and other relevant fields. Following the workship a network dedicated to the analysis of computational knowledge production in domestic security practices was formed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Panel Discussion on SDGs and Big Data at University of Massachusetts, Boston (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Carmel Williams joined a panel of four, all authors in a special edition of the International Journal of Human Rights on 'Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals', who addressed a postgraduate class of about 30 international students in UMass Boston. She spoke about the role of big data in SDG accountability. This sparked questions and discussion, and follow up emails. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Panel discussion on 'Getting to the truth: Using Open Source Data to Defend Human Rights' at a Westminster Seminar co-organised with the Foreign Policy Centre (London, 25 February 2020) (Sam Dubberley and Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 50 policy makers and politicians attended the panel discussion on 'Getting to the truth: Using Open Source Data to Defend Human Rights'. With modern technology providing enhanced access to information about abuse, this event focused on the potential of technology to revolutionise both human rights reporting and documentation as well as the pursuit of legal accountability. This was a Westminster Seminar co-organised with the Foreign Policy Centre and HRBDT at Westminster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/getting-to-the-truth-using-open-source-data-to-defend-human-rights/ |
| Description | Panel presentation at 'AI and Ethics: What Does it Look Like and What's the Agenda?' organised by BioCentre on (5 December 2019) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at a symposium hosted by Lord Clement-Jones, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on AI and chaired by the executive chair of BioCentre on the challenges posed by AI and the avenues for regulation. The presentation focused on the contributions of international human rights standards and norms to the governance and regulation of AI. Professor Lorna McGregor was invited following her presentation at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights the previous month. A report of the event is forthcoming. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Panel presentation at 'The Changing Character of International Dispute Settlement: Prospects and Challenges. John G Merrills Memorial Conference' (Sheffield Law School, 6 December 2019) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation in a panel on 'The mosaic of International dispute settlement' in the context of a Memorial Conference for John G. Merrills on 'The Changing Character of International Dispute Settlement. Prospect and Challenges. The presentation was entitled "The Adequacy and Effectiveness of Grievance Mechanisms within Businesses as a Form of International Dispute Resolution' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Panel presentation at Royal United Services Institute for AI and Prediction in Criminal Justice event (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel speaker at RUSI for AI and Prediction in Criminal Justice event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Panelist at Cog-X Festival of AI and Emerging Technology 2020 on the CDEI: Facial Recognition Technology Panel (Webinar, 10 June 2020) (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey spoke at the Facial Recognition Technology panel organised by DCMS Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation as part for COG-X 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Panelist at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law webinar on COVID-19: Artificial Intelligence, and Data Governance. (Webinar, 18 May 2020) (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey was a panelist on a webinar (COVID-19, Artificial Intelligence and Data Governance). The webinar A Conversation with Lord Tim Clement-Jones |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/sABSaAkkyrI |
| Description | Panellist 'Drawing a (red) line in the sand: On bans, risks and the EU AI Act' at Privacy Camp (webinar, 25th January 2022) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor participated in a panel on 'Drawing a (red) line in the sand: On bans, risks and the EU AI Act' at the Privacy Camp conference. The event brings together digital rights advocates, activists as well as academics and policy-makers to discuss the most pressing issues facing human rights online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://privacycamp.eu/panel-drawing-a-red-line-in-the-sand-on-bans-risks-and-the-eu-ai-act/ |
| Description | Panellist 'Gender Pay Gaps and Digitalization' at the OECD International Women's Day Event 2019 (Paris, 28 March 2019) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra was an invited panellist at an OECD Paris event marking International Women's Day in March. The topic of the panel was Gender Pay Gaps and Digitalization. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Panellist 'Mapping People, Knowledge and Data in Times of Crisis', School of Advanced Study, University of London (Webinar, 20 Nov 2020) (Amy Dickens) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Amy Dickens spoke as part of an expert panel. The panel explored the issues around increasing use of data to govern and control. The panel was hosted by Damien Short (ICwS, University of London) and also included Doug Specht (University of Westminster), Faine Greenwood (Harvard), Rupert Allan (Independent) and Richard Allan (Regulate Tech). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Panellist 'The Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence' at the Digital Technologies and Human Rights - Opportunities and Challenges: Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting III organised by The Swedish OSCE Chairpersonship and OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) (13 July 2021, Webinar) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor gave an introductory address in the Working Session III, "The Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence" this set the scene for the lively discussion that ensued. The event organisers commented that Lorna's remarks helped convey critical human rights considerations relating to the use of digital technologies and were integral to the success of the event. It hoped that the meeting will provide an impetus to the ongoing efforts of participating States to fully implement OSCE commitments in this area. The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights will now carefully review the recommendations that were made during the meeting and determine how best to continue to contribute to the vital work that lies ahead. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/8/d/488134_1.pdf |
| Description | Panellist 'The role of social media companies in managing content that harms human rights - Interactive dialogue on Facebook's new Corporate Human Rights Policy' organised by the Universal Rights Group (Webinar, 25 March 20201) (Lorna McGregor and Ahmed Shaheed) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Lorna McGregor and Dr Ahmed Shaheed took part in a webinar organised by the Universal Rights Group in cooperation with Facebook. At the event Miranda Sissons, Director of Human Rights at Facebook Inc, presented Facebook's new Corporate Human Rights Policy and panellists were invited to discuss the human rights responsibilities of social media companies and the necessity for ongoing dialogue between States, social media and other technology companies, UN experts and civil society, on how to promote and protect the full enjoyment of human rights in the digital world. Fellow panellists with Lorna and Ahmed included H.E. Carlos Dominguez-Diaz (Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Spain), Dr. Eileen Donahoe (Executive Director, Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford University), Fatou Jagne, (Regional Director for Senegal and West Africa, Article 19) and Iain Levine (Senior Human Rights Advisor, Facebook Inc). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.universal-rights.org/events-detail/the-role-of-social-media-companies-in-managing-conten... |
| Description | Panellist 'What place for human rights in the UK's COVID-19 response?' at the Human Rights Centre Speaker Series (Webinar, October 21 2020) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lorna Mc Gregor was a panellist in the webinar "What place for human rights in the UK's COVID-19 response?" organised in the context of the Human Rights Centre Speaker Series of the University of Essex. The panel showcased perspectives from leading human rights and public health experts highlighting not only what has been at stake for human rights, but also how human rights norms and standards can actively shape and reinforce public health measures to support effective, equitable and sustainable responses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.essex.ac.uk/events/2020/10/21/human-rights-speaker-series |
| Description | Panellist at 'Artificial Intelligence and Data Economy: A Business and Human Rights Approach' webinar organised by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (Webinar, 2 June 2020) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor was a panellist in the webinar organised by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. This webinar was the second in a series on 'Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Risks, and the Future of Regulation'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.biicl.org/events/11387/artificial-intelligence-and-data-economy-a-business-and-human-rig... |
| Description | Panellist at 'Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights and Ethics' organised by 2030 Digital Fasttrack Studios (DFS) (Webinar, 7 December 2020) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor joined as a panellist the second 2030 Digital Fasttrack Studio to examine how the underlying mechanisms of AI challenge existing ethical standards and human rights. The panel also discussed what innovative approaches would be required for us to benefit from the enormous potential of AI whilst simultaneously respecting ethical conduct and human rights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/artificial-intelligence-human-rights-and-ethi... |
| Description | Panellist at 'How do we know that AI is doing the right thing?' at the Tommy Flowers Institute 'Let's get physical' virtual conference (Webinar, 16 October 2020) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor was a panellist at Tommy Flowers Network 'Let's Get Physical' virtual conference, to discuss 'How do we know that AI does the right thing?'. The virtual conference was well attended with over 900 participants from BT, academia and industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://tommyflowersnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/2020-autumn-conference-lets-get_13.html |
| Description | Panellist at 'Privacy in the Digital Age: Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies' UNGA75 side event co-organised by ARTICLE 19, Access Now and the Association for Progressive Communications (Webinar, October 13 2020) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | At a UNGA75 Side Event on 'Privacy in The Digital Age: Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies', co-organised by ARTICLE 19, Access Now and the Association for Progressive Communications, Lorna McGregor joined a panel of speakers to discuss the implications of new technologies, including AI, for the right to privacy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Panellist at 'The Future of Human Rights in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence' organised by FRA, Harvard Berkamn Klein Center and Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator, RightsCon (Tunis, 12 June 2019) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation during the panel on ' The Future of Human Rights in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence', exploring how human rights frameworks can be integrated into the governance of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The panel was organised by the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), the Harvard Berkamn Klein Center and Global Digital Policy Incubator at the University of Stanford |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://rightscon2019.sched.com/event/Pvfb/the-future-of-human-rights-in-the-governance-of-artificia... |
| Description | Panellist at Expert Seminar on Artificial Intelligence & Right to Privacy organised by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Webinar, 27 May 2020) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor was a panelist in an expert seminar organised by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) affects the enjoyment of the right to privacy and to articulate the safeguards necessary to promote and protect the right to privacy in the digital age. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/DigitalAge/Pages/SeminarArtificialIntelligence.aspx |
| Description | Panellist at German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Human Rights Day Conference 'Human Rights in the Digital Age: The Risks and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence' (Berlin, 10 December 2019) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor was invited to the international conference on 'Advocating Human Rights in the 21st Century" at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. Within the conference, which was opened by the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Lorna presented her research in a panel on 'human rights and artificial intelligence'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Panellist at the Annual Meeting of the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (Webinar, 28 September 2020) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor was a panellist in the 2020 Annual Meeting of the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable. She participated in a session organised by Nathalie Stadelmann on behalf of OHCHR B-Tech, exploring the "remedy ecosystem" for addressing technology-related harms, and how technology companies can make a more positive and proactive contribution to remedy, in fulfilment of their responsibilities under the UN Guiding Principles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://icar.ngo/2020-icar-annual-meeting/ |
| Description | Panellist at the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), University of Dundee seminar 'Business and human rights: governance challenges in an era of transition' (Webinar, 6 October 2021) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor was a panellist at the 'Business and human rights: governance challenges in an era of transition' online seminar organised by the Institute for Social Sciences Research (ISSR) at the University of Dundee. This seminar considered the wider context for the business and human rights treaty discussion by exploring the human rights dimensions of key social, economic and environmental governance challenges; how the business sector is implicated in them; and what might be the contribution of a UN business and human rights framework treaty regime to their effective resolution. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAQCOguYT28 |
| Description | Panellist the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2021 Open Forum #40 The challenges of AI Human Rights Impact Assessments (Webinar, 10th December 2021) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Lorna McGregor spoke as a panellist at the IGF 2021 Open Forum #40 on 'The Challenges of AI Humans Rights Impact Assessments' on Friday 10 December 2021. The session was organised by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights and Lorna McGregor was one of four academics speaking on the panel. IGF (Internet Governance Forum) is an international meeting held at the initiative of the United Nations, enabling a global discussion on the development of the Internet. Audience members of the IGF include policy-makers, entrepreneurs, representatives of academia and non-governmental organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2021-open-forum-40-the-challenges-of-ai-human-rights-impa... |
| Description | Panellist: ' New economic considerations for investing in MNCH' at the 'Venice Forum: Sustainable Recovery after COVID-19' (webinar, 23 March 2021) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Sonia Bhalotra chaired an expert panel session 'New economic considerations for investing in MNCH' on 23 March 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bapm.org/events/189-venice-forum-sustainable-recovery-after-covid-19 |
| Description | Panellist: Inciting and Enabling the Mob: Social Media's Role in Attacks on Minorities in the Middle East' webinar organized by Anti-Defamation League's Task Force on Middle East Minorities (webinar, 11 January 2022) (Ahmed Shaheed) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On January 11, 2022, Ahmed Shaheed participated in a webinar discussing social media's role in attacks on minorities in the Middle East. Other speakers and panelists included: Former Pakistani Lawmaker Farahnaz Ispahani; Senior Director of FDD's Turkey Program Aykan Erdemir; Founder of Alliance for Rights of All Minorities Marjan Keypour-Greenblatt; and Senior Fellow at FDD's Iran Program Alireza Nader. Questions were sparked and discussed after the panel presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opDgOc_Tx3Y |
| Description | Panellist 'Getting citizens involved in policing: Digital opportunities and societal challenges' organised by the Crime & Society research group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University Brussels) (Webinar, 15 December 2021) (Kat Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Kat Hadjimatheou was a panelist at a seminar entitled 'Getting citizens involved in policing: A seminar on digital opportunities and societal challenges.' The panel discussed how new digital technologies transform the participation of citizens in policing, and enable new modes of involving citizens in reporting, combating or preventing crime, nuisance, or asocial behavior. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cris.research.vub.be/en/seminar-getting-citizens-involved-in-policing-a-seminar-on-digital-o... |
| Description | Participated in Multi-Stakeholder OHCHR Consultation on the practical application of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the activities of technology companies (webinar, 4 March 2021) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor participated in the OHCHR Consultation on the practical application of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the activities of technology companies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohchr.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffi... |
| Description | Participated in the ACM FAT* 2020 Doctoral Consortium (Barcelona, 27 January 2020) (Laura Carter) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 50 doctoral students shared information about their research, and discussed possibilities of collaborations:Laura Carter is am now corresponding with another PhD student about collaborating with her on a paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://facctconference.org/2020/callfordc.html |
| Description | Participation at Google Pair Symposium (london, 14 November 2019) (Elena Abrusci, Sabrina Rau) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The HRBDT was invited to participate in a full-day workshop on Ethical and Responsible AI organised by Google. More than 50 people attended, mainly from the tech sectors and we were able to share our research on algorithmic accountability and human rights law as applied to AI. As a follow-up, Google got in touch with us for further collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation at expert workshop hosed by the Danish Institute of Human Right (Copenhagen, 21-22 Nov) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This expert meeting was hosted by the Danish Institute for Human Rights in an effort to develop a human rights impact assessment (HRIA) for digital business activities. Sabrina Rau represented HRBDT at the meeting on "human rights impacts beyond privacy and implications for HRIAs". The presentation was well received and was referred to throughout the workshop. The workshop led to connections that allowed for interviews to be conducted by colleagues and for a new collaboration to be developed with the DIHR. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in Cabinet Office Open Innovation Team meeting on algorithms in policing (P.Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to cabinet office to discuss research on algorithms in policing. P. Fussey has since been invited to participate in the CDEI policy development research on policing algorithms and been interviewed as part of their work on facial recognition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in Digital Aid: Understanding the digital challenges facing humanitarian assistance at UKRI GCRF Digital Aid Workshop at the Alan Turing Institute (London, 12 September 2019) (Geoff Gilbert) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Participation in Digital Aid: Understanding the digital challenges facing humanitarian assistance on 12 September 2019 at UKRI GCRF Digital Aid Workshop at the Alan Turing Institute, London by Geoff Gilbert |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/digital-aid-understanding-digital-challenges-facing-humanitarian-ass... |
| Description | Participation in Surveillance Focused Workshop Hosted by Hebrew University and Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem (Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A workshop, held at the Israel Democracy Institute, examined the development and application of measures designed in national and regional legal systems to ensure the proportional execution of communication networks surveillance by the relevant surveillance authorities, with a particular focus on the notion of proportionality employed, the different proportionality options considered in the course of policy making (and its role in facilitating right limitation by policy makers), difference in regulation of surveillance by police and other security agencies and the actual lessons learned from practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://en.idi.org.il/events/15852 |
| Description | Participation in a workshop on 'Cyber Interference in Elections: Applying a Human Rights Framework', organised by Chatham House (London, 7 May 2019) (Elena Abrusci) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Organised by Chatham House and University of Oxford, the workshop had the aim of discussing the application of international human rights law to disinformation online in time of elections. We had the opportunity to share our existing research on the topic and inform the final paper published by Chatham House and to set the basis for future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in a workshop on Human Rights-Based and Ethical Approaches to Open Source Investigations (Berkeley, 13 January 2020) (Elena Abrusci, Sam Dubberley, Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We participated in the workshop on 'Human Rights-Based and Ethical Approaches to Open Source Investigations' that HRBDT co-organised with Berkeley Human Rights Center. The intent of the workshop was to discuss a draft of a set of ethical and human rights-based guidelines for open source investigations and get feedback to complete the document for publication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Participation in an expert meeting on 'Verifying elections- towards food practices amid social media' (London, 24 October 2019) (Elena Abrusci, Sam Dubberley, Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation in an expert meeting on 'Verifying elections- towards food practices amid social media' organised by Hacks/Hackers and The Carter Center. The meeting brought together more than 30 people from academia, international and regional organisations, media outlets, tech companies and think thank from all over the world to discuss the challenges linked with elections in time of disinformation and social media. The HRBDT project was a key participant in this dialogue, sharing our findings and research with the audience and helping to achieve clarity and results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in the 2019 UNESCO Mobile Learning Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation in the UNESCO Conference on "Principles for AI" and in the 2019 Mobile Learning Week, discussing issues related to human rights principles for Artificial Intelligence and the impact of disinformation on human rights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://en.unesco.org/events/mobile-learning-week-2019 |
| Description | Participation in the IEEE Working Group on Algorithmic Bias Considerations (London, 28 February-1 March) (Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation in the IEEE Working Group on Algorithmic Bias Considerations meeting in London on 28 February and 1 March. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://standards.ieee.org/project/7003.html#Working |
| Description | Participation to the Commonwealth Panel on 'Protecting Democracy: Defending the Media whilst Harnessing the Benefits of ICT- A Commonwealth Perspective on the Role of Human Rights', UNESCO World Press Freedom Day (Addis Ababa, 1 May 2019) (Elena Abrusci) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Within the UNESCO 2019 World Press Freedom Day, the COmmonwealth Secretariat organised a panel on 'Protecting Democracy: Defending the Media whilst Harnessing the Benefits of ICT- A Commonwealth Perspective on the Role of Human Rights' and invited the HRBDT to present our perspective on the issue. Topical matters were discussed and through a lively debate, we brought attention to the human rights impact and challenges posed by emerging technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://thecommonwealth.org/media/news/reforms-required-if-elections-are-withstand-line-challenges |
| Description | People Just Don't Get It - An interview with Kade Crockford of the ACLU of Massachusetts about Why Surveillance Issues Aren't Getting the Attention They Deserve (Ajay Sandhu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog post summarises an interview with Kade Crockford, the Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLUM). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/people-just-dont-get-it-an-interview-with-kade-crockford-of-the-aclu-of-mass... |
| Description | Plenary address 'Solidarity and the current political economy' (Linsey McGoey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give the plenary talk at the launch event of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity (University of Vienna) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Podcast 'Live Facial Recognition', Declarations Podcast (Feb 2022) (Pete Fussey and Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Daragh Murray and Pete Fussey discussed the use of Live Facial Recognition technology by police and presented some of their research findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://declarationspod.com/2022/02/ |
| Description | Podcast (MIT Technology Review): When an algorithm gets it wrong (20 August 2020) (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Pete Fussey was interviewed for 'When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong', the first in a four-part series of podcasts for MIT Technology Review examining police and facial recognition. In the podcast Pete Fussey provides insight into the London Metropolitan Police Service's Trial of live facial recognition technology. He raises concerns as to the collection and storage of biometric data generated by the trials, the difficulty of obtaining meaningful consent from trial participants and shortcomings of the technology in terms of accuracy and its effectiveness across different demographics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/12/1006636/face-recognition-algorithm-false-arrest-police-r... |
| Description | Podcast on Data Analytics (Daragh Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Podcast discussing human rights and data analytics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Police Data Visibility - Part 1: How Data Can be Used to Monitor Police Work and How it Could be Used to Predict Fatal Force Incidents (Ajay Sandhu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog post discusses the importance of studying how the police are monitored using digital technology and big data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/the-polices-data-visibility-1-how-data-can-be-used-to-moni... |
| Description | Police Data Visibility - Part 2: The Limitations of Data Visibility for Predicting Police Misconduct (Ajay Sandhu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog post discusses the importance of studying how the police are monitored using digital technology and big data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/the-polices-data-visibility-part-2-the-limitations-of-data-visibility-for-pr... |
| Description | Prescripted Living: Gender Stereotypes and Data-Based Surveillance in the UK Welfare State (Essex Law Research Blog, Feb 2022) (Laura Carter) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The blog highlights Laura Carter's new article in Internet Policy Review, which argues that the combination of gender stereotyping and surveillance in the UK welfare state risks creating a vicious cycle, in which the categorisation and control dimensions of both stereotyping and surveillance reinforce each other. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://essexlawresearch.blog/2022/02/08/prescripted-living-gender-stereotypes-and-data-based-survei... |
| Description | Presentaiton at The London Conference on International Law (London, 4 October 2019) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Speaker at the 2019 London Conference on International Law. The presentation was delivered during the panel on 'International law and cyber security: can the law keep pace with technological change?' and focused on the human rights impact of cyber activities and how international law applies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://thelondonconference.org/ |
| Description | Presentation "Growing Inequality and Risks to Social Rights in Our New Data Economy" at book launch for 'Human Rights and Economic Inequalities' (Webinar, 15 Nov 2021) (Carmel Williams) " |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Carmel Williams gave a presentation on 'Growing inequality and risks to social rights in our new data economy' as part of a conversation with other authors at a launch for the publication of a new book published by Cambridge University Press. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at "The GDPR and Media Regulation" research seminar at Sciences Po Law School (Paris, 30 November 2018) (David Erdos) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This research seminar was organised jointly by the Law Department of HEC Paris and the EDGAM Seminar Series. David Erdos spoke about how the future of data protection regulation of the journalistic media develop should under the GDPR. The event resulted in useful discussions around co-regulation. It also prompted an interview which has resulted in wider coverage of relevant issues: https://www.hec.edu/en/news-room/data-protection-laws-leap-21st-century |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.slideshare.net/DavidErdos1/gdpr-dpas-and-the-journalistic-media-walking-the-regulatory-t... |
| Description | Presentation at CPD week on "Human rights, big data and technology: what you need to know" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Teachers of local schools attended this session in order to learn more of what they can tell their students when it comes to human rights and the digital space. They reported finding the session very interesting and hoping to engage further in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at Fair Use by Design Expert Workshop at the University of Haifa (Krzysztof Garstka) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | On 9 July 2017, Krzysztof Garstka participated in a pioneering workshop at the University of Haifa, focused on exploring the possibilities of implementing the doctrine of fair use within the field of online copyright enforcement, through the adequate development and use of algorithms. The international, multidisciplinary group of participants included scholars from Israel, USA and the UK, as well as representatives of Google. Krzysztof delivered a presentation on the issue of accountability in algorithmic copyright enforcement, outlining various legal implementation patterns which could be embraced in order to improve accountability in the discussed field. The workshop was organised by the University of Haifa's Centre for Cyber Law & Policy, Learning in a NetworKed Society (LINKS) initiative, and University of California Los Angeles' Program on Understanding Law, Science, & Evidence (PULSE). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2017/08/krzysztof-garstka-speaks-fair-use-design-expert-w... |
| Description | Presentation at International Human Rights Symposium, A New paradigm for human rights policy: How to create a human-centred information society (D. Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at International Human Rights Symposium, A New paradigm for human rights policy: How to create a human-centred information society, co-hosted by UNRISD, Korea University Human Rights Centre, and South Korea Ministry of Justice, Seoul (Presentation on 'Human Centred Approach to AI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010,2018 |
| Description | Presentation at Leuven AI Law and Ethics Conference 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Leuven AI Law and Ethics Conference 2020 titled "the good, the bad the regulated: in search of a common denominator for AI in business and society". Speaking on a panel on "sustainability in the risk society: business, human rights and sustainable development goals" the presentation focused on bringing a new perspective to the expert panel. Follow up questions were asked for more information on several point. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/en/lailec-2020/lailec2020-conference-programme-update-2020-02-11.p... |
| Description | Presentation at the Freedom Online Conference (Berlin, 28-30 November 2018) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation in the panel on: 'How to bring a human rights lens to the governance of artificial intelligence'. The workshop aimed at helping policy makers recognising the value of the existing universal human rights framework to confront emerging governance challenges related to Artificial Intelligence and Machines Learning (AI/ML) technologies in particular focusing on internet freedom. The workshop aimed also at helping socialize technologists in the existing international human rights law, so that they do not assume they need to invent an ethical framework that is applicable to AI/ML technologies. The speakers assessed the impact of existing AI/ML technologies on the enjoyment of human rights, from freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, the right to privacy, the right to work, the right to non-discrimination and to equal protection of the law. They also provided analyses of how AI/ML impacts transparency and accountability for governance decisions. The speakers then discussed how stakeholders can anticipate and assess the possible implications of AI technologies on the horizon, such as Artificial Generalized Intelligence, and assessed the relevance of a human rights framework to alternative ethical approaches to AI, including "human-centered" AI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://freedomonline.de/program/program-overview/ |
| Description | Presentation at the International Expert-Conference on Human Rights of older Persons (Vienna, 12-13 November 2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the implications for Human Rights of the use of robotics and automation for older persons. The panel was dedicated to technology, in particular robotics and automation. The fast progression in these fields have revealed numerous possibilities but also challenges for older people to increase their participation in society as well as support ways to assure self-determined lives. The aim of the Panel was to identify promising inventions & solutions and discuss their contribution for older persons, as well as necessary legal considerations in regards to international standards. The panel was composed by experts from leading countries in respect of robotics and automation as well as competent counterparts in regards of international legal implications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.ageing.at/en/conference/ichrop-2018 |
| Description | Presentation at the UNESCO-IMS Panel on 'Artificial Intelligence, Journalism and Press Freedom in Times of Elections', UNESCO World Press Freedom Day (Addis Ababa, 2 May 2019) (Elena Abrusci) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | In the context of the UNESCO 2019 World Press Freedom Day, we were invited to present on the human rights impact of online disinformation. We brought a completely different perspective to the topic and engaged in active conversation with a wide range of new stakeholders. Besides showcasing our research, this also brought attention to our work and further requests for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://en.unesco.org/world-press-freedom-day-2019/elena-abrusci |
| Description | Presentation in the Fundamental Rights Forum (Vienna, 25-27 September 2018) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Participation in the open session on "Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion: Ensuring Equal Access and Benefits" organised by Microsoft. The session focused on the following key messages: 1. AI is happening and can deliver significant benefits to society. Rather than rejecting AI, we should educate stakeholders about the human right risks and opportunities that the development and use of AI systems is raising. 2.AI systems should be used when necessary/indispensable to achieve the desired outcome. This would limit the risk that AI systems deepen the digital divide against those who do not have access to the technology, and also deprive users of human face time (empathy).3. Tech companies have been developing various processes and methods to address the risk of discrimination in data sets used to train AI systems (e.g., diversity and subject-matter expertise in developer teams; human rights training of developers; pre-processing of data sets to identify and eliminate potential discrimination). Research of such solutions should be encouraged, including research about trade-offs between those solutions and other rights (such as privacy). The open session made the following recommendations: 1. Continue to educate all stakeholders (civil society, tech companies and regulators, including the European Parliament) about the human rights risks in AI and potential solutions. This education effort is a collective responsibility of the tech sector and civil society. 2. Take a holistic approach in assessing the human rights risk and opportunities of AI. Be specific about those risks and opportunities. This is primarily incumbent on tech companies and civil society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://fundamentalrightsforum.eu/en/frf/home |
| Description | Presentation of HRBDT work at the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN) (Geneva, 13 November 2019) (Geoff Gilbert) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of HRBDT work at the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN) on 13 November 2019 in Geneva by Geoff Gilbert. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.unhcr.org/5dc83d2e7.pdf |
| Description | Presentation of Preliminary Research Findings on Domestic Violence in Chile During Lockdown at the National Bureau of Economics Research (Boston, 24 June 2021) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Professor Sonia Bhalotra of Preliminary Research Findings on Domestic Violence in Chile During Lockdown at the National Bureau of Economics Research (Boston, 24 June 2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/women-victimization-and-covid-19 |
| Description | Presentation of the UDHR at 70 Report at the Asser Institute Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence and International Law (The Hague, 12 February 2019) (Vivian Ng) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the HRBDT Report 'The Universal Declaration at 70: Putting Human Rights at the Heart of the Design, Development and Deployment of AI' within the 'AI for Good' session in the context of the Asser Institute Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence and International Law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.asser.nl/education-events/events/?id=3043&utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_conten... |
| Description | Presentation on "Data Protection in the UK Public Sector: Securing the Benefits of GDPR Compliance" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | over 50 people attended the presentation and many noted an increased interest in the associated human rights issues that were related to the issues at hand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on "Eurpose, its Member States and Personal Data Protection: An Historical Perspective" at The Royal All European Academies (ALLEA) & Royal Society Flourishing in a Data-Enabled Society Conference (UK, November 2018) (David Erdos) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The event provided a good opportunity to network with people interested in the interface between data regulation and especially research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation on "The responsibility of tech companies during Covid-19 and beyond", University of Essex Newcomers Presents, 7 December 2020, (Sabrina Rau) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of recent Covid paper publication on "Newcomers present" about the role of technology companies during Covid-19 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/29597/ |
| Description | Presentation on "With Great Reliance Comes Great Responsibility: The Role of Technology Companies during Covid-19." at 6th Global Business and Human Rights Conference Universidad de Monterrey (Sabrina Rau) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sabrina Rau gave presentation on "With Great Reliance Comes Great Responsibility: The Role of Technology Companies during Covid-19." at 6th Global Business and Human Rights Conference due to take place at the Universidad de Monterrey on 3-4 September 2020 but instead took place online virtually. Feedback suggested positive uptake of research and sparked numerous questions and discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://bhrscholarsassociation.org/2020-conference-2/ |
| Description | Presentation on 'Access to abortion and maternal mortality - evidence from switches in the role of American Presidential regime' (Global Gag Rule Research Consortium, Guttmacher Foundation and Colombia University, 30 July 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 30 July 2020 Sonia Bhalotra gave a joint presentation with Damian Clarke of a draft paper 'Access to abortion and maternal mortality - evidence from switches in the role of American Presidential regime' (Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Hanna Muhlrad, Manuel F Sierra) to the Global Gag Rule Research Consortium, Guttmacher Foundation and Colombia University. This event was limited to an invited audience only, numbering 52 and was comprised of research academics, charities, non government organisations and organisations providing reproductive health services. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: Responsibilities of a New Era' at the 9th Annual ELSA Day (Webinar, 25 November 2020) (Sabrina Rau) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invitation to speak at Elsa day with theme on technology and human rights. Interesting conversation with many questions following the presentation asking for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Big Philanthropy and the Perils of Corporate Non-Accountability' at an invited seminar at the EU's European External Action Service (Brussels, 29 November) (Linsey McGoey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 30 members of the the European External Action service (the foreign diplomacy branch of the EU) attended. Linsey McGoey spoke about 'Big Philanthropy and the Perils of Corporate Non-Accountability' including the role of large tech companies on inequality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Criminal justice and technology: the solution?' at the Penal Reform International side event at the 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Webinar, 10th March 2021) (Kat Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Kat Hadjimatheou participated in this side event which consider some of the key trends and challenges in prison systems worldwide. Kat's presentation focused on the challenges in prison management, including security and violence, the situation for prison staff and the role of new technologies in prison and the wider justice system. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/zzLcV_4Z_6o |
| Description | Presentation on 'Domestic violence and male unemployment- evidence from mass layoffs' at the Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi, 20 February 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 20 economists attended a seminar where Sonia Bhalotra presented on 'Domestic violence and male unemployment- evidence from mass layoffs'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation on 'From HunchLab to ShotSpotter Missions: On the prescription and privatisation of police responses' at Data Power 2019 (University of Bremen, Germany, 13 September 2019) (Daniel Marciniak) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Daniel presented his research to a group of 15 international scholars. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.uni-bremen.de/datapower/ |
| Description | Presentation on 'Human Rights Implication of data processing and the role of consent online' (London, 12 November) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public engagement activity at an art gallery that brought together art students wanting to learn more about the intersection about human rights and new technologies. Further information was requested and many questions were asked that indicated a keen interest to learn more. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Human rights, equality law and automated systems' at Rise of the Robots workshop organised by the Public Law Project (Webinar, 18 November 2020) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lorna McGregor spoke at the Rise of the Robots workshop organised by the Public Law Project aimed at equipping public lawyers with the practical knowledge and skills required to challenge automated government decisions. Lorna was joined by Dee Masters of Cloisters Chambers to talk about 'Human rights, equality law and automated systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://publiclawproject.org.uk/events/rise-of-the-robots-challenging-government-automated-decision-... |
| Description | Presentation on 'Identifying Idiomatic Language with Distributional Semantic Models' at a seminar organised by the College of Engineering, Koc University (Istanbul, 21 February 2019) (Aline Villavicencio) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Aline gave a presentation on 'Identifying Idiomatic Language with Distributional Semantic Models' at a seminar organised by the College of Engineering, Koc University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://emw.ku.edu.tr/news/aline-villavicencio-visited-the-emw-project-at-koc-university/ |
| Description | Presentation on 'Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden' (Department of Economics, Kings College London Business School 18 November 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave an online presentation on 'Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden' as part of the Economic Research Seminar series at Kings College London Business School 18 November 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/series/research-seminars-in-economics |
| Description | Presentation on 'Investigating Human Rights Abuses Using New Technologies' at a public event organised by the University of Toronto (Toronto, 9 October 2019) (Sam Dubberley) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sam Dubberley presented at a public talk attended by around 50 people on the impact of open source information in the digital age on human rights investigations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (CEPR London Gender Workshop on 5 October 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' at an online Gender Workshop organised by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and co-hosted with Stockholm University and Uppsala University. Sonia Bhalotra's presentation was also recorded and posted on You Tube, where it has currently received 205 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYVbOv6ylmo |
| Description | Presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (Conferencia Internacional Desarrollo y Cohesión,4 November 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' at Conferencia Internacional Desarrollo y Cohesión which took place online on 4 November 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/jWnHL3 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (Delhi School of Economics, 18 February 2021) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' at the Centre for Development Economics and Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, on 8 February 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://econdse.org/sonia-bhalotra-university-of-essex/ |
| Description | Presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (Department of Economics, Applied Micro Workshop, 15 April 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' at the Department of Economics, Applied Micro Workshop on 15 April 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (Department of Economics, Copenhagen University, 25 November 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (Department of Economics, Copenhagen University, 25 November 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.econ.ku.dk/Kalender/seminarerappliedeconomics/ |
| Description | Presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (Department of Economics, University of Houstan Texas, 23 October 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation entitled 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' on 23 October 2020 as part of the UH Empirical Micro Workshop series at the Department of Economics, University of Houstan Texas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://uh.edu/~achin/workshop/fall20_uh_empirical_micro_seminar.pdf |
| Description | Presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (Department of Economics, Uppsala University Sweden, 10 November 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' at the Department of Economics, Uppsala University Sweden on 10 November 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (ECARES Brussels, 6 October 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' at an Economics Webinar organised by the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics on 6 October 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wVBjQh6sdsqW5RnUwu6csM-Y--0_Rq_l/view |
| Description | Presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (Panel Session, Gender Secretariat, Brookings India 19 February 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' at the Gender Secretariat, Brookings India Development Seminar 'Unemployment and domestic violence - New evidence from administrative data' on 19 February 2020. The recording of this presentation has been viewed over 200 times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuH-RwmyK_A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.brookings.edu/events/development-seminar-unemployment-and-domestic-violence-new-evidence... |
| Description | Presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (Paris School of Economics, January 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' for a Gender Family webinar organised by the Paris School of Economics, January 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' (University of Glasgow, 14 October 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave an online presentation on 'Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence' on 14 October 2020 as part of the University of Glasgow's Applied Economics Seminar Series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/research/events/headline_736313_en.html |
| Description | Presentation on 'Lay Offs, Benefits and Intimate Partner Violence' (FROGEE Workshop, Stockholm University on 24 September 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra delivered a presentation on 'Lay Offs, Benefits and Intimate Partner Violence' at a Free Network (FROGEE) online workshop 'Economic Perspective on Domestic Violence' held at Stockholm University on 24 September 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.hhs.se/en/about-us/calendar/site-external-events/2020/webinar--economic-perspectives-on-... |
| Description | Presentation on 'Layoffs, Benefits and Domestic Violence' (Economics Department, Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz, Austria on 22 July 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation at the Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz, Department of Economics research seminar on 22 July 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.jku.at/en/department-of-economics/research/research-events/online-economics-research-sem... |
| Description | Presentation on 'Layoffs, Benefits and Intimate Partner Violence' (ADE Seminars, Lahore School of Economics, 14 July 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On 14 July 2020, Sonia Bhalotra delivered an online presentation on ''Layoffs, Benefits and Intimate Partner Violence' as part of the Applied Development Economics (ADE) Seminar series at Lahore School of Economics. The ADE seminar series is hosted by the Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB) at the Lahore School of Economics, in collaboration with the International Growth Centre (IGC) and Consortium for Development Policy Research (CDPR). The series' objective is to bring interesting and important economic research being carried out around the world to Pakistan. The purpose of the activity was to disseminate Sonia Bhalotra's research. In addition to the live broadcast of the seminar, it was also recorded on YouTube and has currently been viewed 274 times. Sona Bhalotra's seminar was also reported in The Daily Times (Pakistan) https://dailytimes.com.pk/643907/domestic-violence-increases-amidst-unemployment/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sikDDvrk1nE |
| Description | Presentation on 'Prescripted Living: Gender Stereotypes and Surveillance Technologies' at the Feminist Data Protection Workshop (Berlin, 20 Nov 2019) (Laura Carter) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Laura Carter presented a paper to an audience of academics and policy-makers, including Q+A sessions - the organisers are considering publication venues to disseminate the findings more broadly. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.forum-privatheit.de/veranstaltungen/workshop-feminist-data-protection/ |
| Description | Presentation on 'Reconsidering Rights and Ethics in the Era of Digital Security' at the Policing and Technology Conference Seminar organised by Northumbria University Centre for Crime and Policing (8th December 2020) (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey gave a presentation on 'Reconsidering Rights and Ethics in the Era of Digital Security' at the Policing and Technology Conference Seminar organised by Northumbria University Centre for Crime and Policing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Restricting Access to Health Services: Citizens' Rights and the Effects of Denying Basic Care' at a workshop on applied microeconomics organised by Sonia Bhalotra (ISER, Essex, 20 March 2019) (Manuel Fernandez Sierra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra organized this workshop in Essex on 20 March at which she invited Sam Asher from the World Bank, Mircea Tandafir from Odense (Denmark), Amrit Amirapu (Kent), Selma Walther (Sussex), Andreas Kotsdam (The Frisch Centre), Enrico Rubolino (Essex) to speak. Manuel also presented the Colombia health rights paper and gained good feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Security Surveillance and the Morality of Trust' at the Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance workshop (Krakow, 30 September 2019) (Kat Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Kat Hadjimatheou presented a paper on 'Security Surveillance and the Morality of Trust' at a workshop organised by Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/tatas/files/2019/09/krakow_program.pdf |
| Description | Presentation on 'Social media for human rights research' at the University of Pretoria (Pretoria, March 2019) (Sam Dubberley) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 50 people attended this public event organised by the University of Pretoria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Strategic Ignorance and the Problem of Billionaire Philanthropy' at the EU's Lunchtime Knowledge Exchange Series (Brussels, 29 November) (Linsey McGoey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Linsey McGoey presented at the EU's lunchtime knowledge exchange series. The session was attended by about 60 people and was filmed by a tv crew from Arte Media, a German-France broadcaster, as part of a forthcoming documentary. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/the-unknowers-how-strategic-ignorance-rules-the-world-november-2019 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Surveillance in the 21st Century: from the mundane to the spectacular' at the British Sociological Association Postgraduate Forum Regional Day Event (London, 14 June 2019) (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey presented HRBDT research at a postgraduate forum sponsored by the British Sociological Association and the Digital Organisation and Society Research Centre (DOS). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/business-and-managemen... |
| Description | Presentation on 'The Dynamic Impacts of Quarantine Imposition and Removal on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence Based on Rolling Quarantines in Chile' (Academics Stand Against Poverty, Build Back Better Conference, 14 November 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation entitled 'The Dynamic Impacts of Quarantine Imposition and Removal on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence Based on Rolling Quarantines in Chile', at the Academics Stand Against Poverty, Build Back Better Conference, on 14 November 2020. This was a global conference on the theme of 'Reducing Vulnerabilities, Strengthening Justice' and took place from 12 - 15 November 2020. ASAP is an international interdisciplinary academic network aiming to enhance the impact of researchers, teachers and students on global poverty. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.asapconference2020.com/schedule |
| Description | Presentation on 'The Dynamic Impacts of Quarantine Imposition and Removal on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence Based on Rolling Quarantines in Chile' (NBER Gender Workshop, 24-25 July 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 'The Dynamic Impacts of Quarantine Imposition and Removal on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence Based on Rolling Quarantines in Chile' at the National Bureau of Economic Research Gender Workshop 24-25 July 2020. This was part of a NBER 2 day online conference 'SI2020 Gender in the Economy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/conferences/si-2020-gender-economy |
| Description | Presentation on 'The Dynamic Impacts of Quarantine Imposition and Removal on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence Based on Rolling Quarantines in Chile' (Stockholm School of Economics, CERN, 19 November 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 'The Dynamic Impacts of Quarantine Imposition and Removal on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence Based on Rolling Quarantines in Chile' at the Stockholm School of Economics for the Corona Economics Research Network seminar series on 19 November 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://play.hhs.se/media/SSE-CERN+webinar+with+Sonia+Bhalotra+November+19+2020/0_uxl6acqe?_ga=2.267... |
| Description | Presentation on 'The challenges of human rights investigations using technology' at University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, September 2019) (Sam Dubberley) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sam Dubberley presented at this public talk organised by the University of California, Berkeley. The event was attended by around 50 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on 'The freedom of thought' to the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Issues) of the United Nations General Assembly (Webinar, 19th October 2021) (Ahmed Shaheed) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 19th October 2021, Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, presented his thematic report on the topic of freedom of thought to the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Issues) of the United Nations General Assembly. Questions and comments from various country representatives followed when the floor was opened for discussion - see URL link below for full details of the presentation and discussion. The committee representative of the United Kingdom, noting that his country will host a Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief in 2022, asked Ahmed Shaheed how international partners can best work together to gather, and share, credible information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/gashc4326.doc.htm#:~:text=AHMED%20SHAHEED%2C%20Special%20Rapporteur... |
| Description | Presentation on 'The role of education in combating anti-Semitism and intolerance, in an age of emerging technologies and growing diversity' at the UNESCO and OSCE/ODIHR Conference (Webinar, November 3 2021) (Ahmed Shaheed) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Ahmed Shaheed spoke at a conference organised by ODIHR, OSCE and UNESCO on 3 November 2021. The main conference title was 'Addressing Anti-Semitism, Intolerance and Discrimination through Education - Regional Conference for Policymakers, Teacher Trainers and Educations'. Ahmed Shaheed's presentation was on 'The role of education in combating anti-Semitism and intolerance, in an age of emerging technologies and growing diversity'. The conference was attended by government representatives, as well as relevant stakeholders from international organisations, academia, civil society organisations and the education sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/5/4/508091.pdf |
| Description | Presentation on 'Unemployment and domestic violence - new evidence from administrative data' at Brookings Institute India development seminar (Delhi, 19 February 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra presented on domestic violence and unemployment at a seminar organised by Brookings India. Discussants included a human rights lawyer and senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India and a journalist active in human/health rights in india . The audience was mainly policy and academic people (mixed-discipline). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuH-RwmyK_A |
| Description | Presentation on 'Using criminal histories to prevent harm: the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme' at the EUROCRIM 2021 E-conference (Webinar, 10 September 2021) (Kat Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kat Hadjimatheou participated in a panel on 'Discrimination, victimhood and criminal records' and presented findings from the largest qualitative study of the Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation on Big Data and UPR methodology, University of Geneva Health and Human Rights Summer School (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Carmel Williams presented on the role of big data in human rights accountability, using the UPR research in New Zealand as a case study. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation on Brazil Family Health Programme to the Barcelona Summer Forum (Rudi Rocha) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research collaborator and co-author Rudi Rocha presented big data analysis of the Brazil Family Health program, which shows the positive effect on health statistics from improving maternal and child health equitably. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation on Colombia research paper at a workshop on applied microeconomics (Economic, University Essex, 17 June 2019) (Manuel Fernandez Sierra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhalotra organized this workshop in Essex on 17 June at which she invited Wilbert van der Klaauw (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Katrine Loken (Bergen), Imran Rasul (UCL), Selim Gulesci (Bocconi) and Nicola Salamanca (Melbourne). Manuel also presented the Colombia health rights paper and gained good feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on Data supply chains (Global Business and Human Rights Scholar Association Conference) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation was given on data supply chains in the context of business and human rights in the digital era. Attendees were very attentive and asked many questions following the presentation. Many noted a change in opinion and interest to learn more. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on Ethics and AI (University of East Anglia, 22 May 2019) (Lorna McGregor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Delivered paper on the contribution of international human rights standards and norms to the governance and regulation of AI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on HRBDT research on facial recognition, University of East Anglia workshop on State Surveillance (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An academic workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on Hiding in Plain Sight: Right to be Forgotten and Search Engines in the Context of International Data Protection Frameworks - Internet Governance Forum 2017 (Krzysztof Garstka and David Erdos) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Krzysztof Garstka and David Erdos were invited to present their chapter on 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Right to be Forgotten and Search Engines in the Context of International Data Protection Frameworks' at the 2017 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in the context of the discussion organised by the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://sched.co/CTqv |
| Description | Presentation on Independent Report on Live Facial Recognition Trial by London's Metropolitan Police at University College London (P. Fussey and D.Murray) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion with police and others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/jill-dando-institute/events/2019/may/just-looking-learning-police-trials-live-... |
| Description | Presentation on Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden Zew Mannheim Workshop on "Social Mobility and Economic Performance" organised by (webinar, 23 March 2021) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Sonia Bhalotra gave a presentation on 23 March 2021 as part of a panel session on 'Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.zew.de/fileadmin/FTP/veranstaltungen/Programme_SocialMobilitySEEK2021.pdf?v=1615388649 |
| Description | Presentation on ethical issues in policing undercover online, Society of Applied Philosophy workshop on Ethics of Police Stings, Liverpool University (K.Hadjimatheou) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 20 people attended this workshop, including police practitioners. An edited special collection will follow. Practitioners appreciated the ethical perspective on their work and invited Kat Hadjimatheou to help deliver simulation-based training to Merseyside police. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on the 'The Consequences of Reporting Workplace Sexual Harassment' at a workshop on Gender and Development organised by Sonia Bhalotra (University of Gothenburg, 29-30 November) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The seminar was attended by 30 people. Sonia Bhalotra presented HRBDT research on workplace sexual harassment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://handels.gu.se/english/about-the-School/press-and-news/newsdetail//new-research-can-potential... |
| Description | Presentation on the Big Data and UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review recommendations at the Essex Human Rights Summer School (Colchester, July 2019) (Carmel Williams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Carmel Williams spoke about Big Data and the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review recommendations at the Essex Human Rights Summer School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation to Policy Makers Connected to Smart City Initiatives in India (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Pete Fussey presented on 'Digital Data, Ethics and Rights' connected to HRBDT Project findings to urban planners in Kerala, regional politicians and members of the Indian civil service as part of an Urban Observatory event in Kochi, India. The audience comprised of fifty delegates from policy, industry and research backgrounds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation to UN OHCHR invited workshop on Freedom of Assembly and Association in the digital age (Pete Fussey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented to UN OHCHR invited workshop on Freedom of Assembly and Association in the digital age |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to the Brookings India Health Group (Delhi, 19 February 2020) (Sonia Bhalotra) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Bhaltora spoke about public health in Brazil and the role of new walk in centres. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to the UK Data Service/Archive and the Administrative Data Research Network (Maurice Sunkin and Catherine Kent) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Employees at the UK Data Service/Archive and the Administrative Data Research Network attended a presentation to hear more about the Project's research, which sparked questions about and discussions of areas of mutual interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |