Africa Digital Rights Perspectives

• Who: Mardiya Siba Yahaya
• Date: Tuesday, June 13
• Time: 9am EDT / 1pm UTC (What time is it in my city?)
• Language: English
• Location: Zoom

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Africa Digital Rights perspectives with Mardiya Siba Yahaya

In this session we will talk about digital rights in Africa, its perspectives and cases during 2022-2023. The main topics will be:

• Engaging with ‘silent’ communities: a reflection of a community manager.

• Connecting emerging trends in Africa; beyond the buzzwords of data governance and AI to the current realities on ground.

• What we want as a community: imagining a self-sustaining and resilient community of digital justice practitioners and designers.

Speaker:

Mardiya Siba Yahaya is our Africa Community Lead at Team CommUNITY. She is a researcher and community movement builder whose work investigates the implications of technology-based surveillance within datafied societies and states, on the lives and bodies minoritized communities.