ey themes: This panel will attempt to re-center the debates on humanitarian data around displaced communities and their lived experiences and needs. It will consider a myriad of ethical and moral questions regarding how data is sourced and stored, as well as questions regarding data ownership and sovereignty, potential data misuse and unintended consequences.

• Sarah Fathallah, Independent (facilitator)
• Liam Nicoll, Product Lead Emergency Unit, International Rescue Committee (facilitator)
• Adam Harvey, Director VFrame
• Kristy Crabtree, Technology for Programs Strategy Lead, International Rescue Committee
• Masud Rana, Humanitarian Content and Social Media Advisor, Internews
• Nichlas Hellmark, Gaming Lead, Save the Children

Key themes: This panel will explore lessons learned in developing multi-stakeholder, locally led responses to disinformation and surveillance. It will specifically address such responses in high-risk and volatile situations, such as election periods, moments of democratic transition and emergency.

• Digital Rights Foundation: Hyra Basil 
• Meedan: Ed Bice 
• Teyit: Gülin Çavuş 
• Lupa Brazil: Leandro Becker 
• Engage Media: Katerina Francisco

Key themes: This panel will look at the relationship between global trends and local or regional patterns of targeted violence. It will shed light on the strategies of resistance and networks and solidarity that have been or are being developed in different contexts and with different communities, especially those based in the Larger World as a site of disproportionate impact.

• AWJP: Catherine Gicheru – Executive Director (Founder)
• Fundación Multitudes: Paulina Ibarra – Executive Director
• Jeem: Dalia Othman
• Global Network of Sex Work: Jules Kim
• Thai Netizen: Darika Bamrungchok

While many states have humanitarian plans in place for times of crises and disasters, most have not critically considered how to best protect human  rights in the digital space while ensuring safe access to the internet during these times. This session will discuss the approaches that should be put into place to best protect human rights in digital spaces, and in particular protection of people’s data and prevention of state surveillance and repression (especially as these populations are some of the most vulnerable to surveillance), before a crisis or conflict begins.

• Aki Enkenberg, Team Lead, Innovation and Digital Cooperation at Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
• Gayatri Khandhadai, Head of Technology & Human Rights, BHRRC
• Quinn McKew, Executive Director, ARTICLE 19
• Victoria Welborn, Senior Program Manager, DIAL Global
• Lillian Nalwoga, Programme Manager, CIPESA

Humanitarian organizations rely more than ever on digital technologies and data to assist and protect people in crisis. They enable humanitarian actors to understand and respond to the needs of affected people, and offer new channels to deliver aid. However, as organizations collect and manage increasingly large volumes of data and sophisticated technologies, they also face new risks. In this session, we will highlight not only the existing global frameworks for data responsibility, but also the work that is being done to ensure the safe, ethical and effective use of data and technologies in humanitarian action. This session also provides an opportunity to exchange on what additional processes, tools and support are needed to drive adoption of data responsibility during times of crises, conflicts and disasters.

• Ilia Siatitsa, Programme Director and Senior Legal, Privacy International, moderator
• Philippe Stoll, Senior Techplomacy Delegate,  ICRC
• Stijn Aelbers, Senior Humanitarian Advisor, Internews
• Mariam Jamal, Digital Rights Program Officer, Haki na Sheria
• Stuart Campo, Team Lead for Data Responsibility, OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data

The past few years have shed light on the increasingly important role and impact of social media platforms in situations of armed conflict and crisis. On the one hand, people us digital platforms to document human rights abuses or war crimes, access and share information, mobilize for national and global action, and crowdsource humanitarian assistance and relief. On the other hand, state and non-state actors leverage these same platforms to spread disinformation and “hate speech”, incite violence, and attack or surveil activists, journalists, and dissidents. The response of tech companies to these situations has been varied, and often non-transparent and inconsistent, which has negatively impacted people and communities on the ground, particularly marginalized communities in the Global South. The session aims to unpack the responsibilities of ICT companies, under international human rights law and international humanitarian law when they engage or operate in situations of crisis and armed conflict —How should tech companies effectively respect human rights online and offline in such contexts? It also aims at identifying existing normative gaps, and help advance new human rights based approach to crisis response and engagement in conflict affect countries and regions.

• Tetiana Avdeieiva, Legal Counsel, Digital Security Lab Ukraine
• Adeline Hulin, Project Coordinator of ‘Social media 4 Peace’, UNESCO
• Peggy Hicks, Director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division of the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR)
• Ramsha Jahangir, Senior Policy & Communications Associate, Global Network Initiative (GNI)