APC at the Internet Freedom Festival 2017

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Published on 4 March 2017
Page last updated on 11 September 2023

The Internet Freedom Festival (IFF), which takes place in Valencia, Spain on a yearly basis, has become one of the main events for civil society to gather around issues of surveillance, censorship and circumvention worldwide. Hundreds of activists, journalists and members of the technical community get together to explore trends, challenges and strategies. At this 2017 edition, APC is fully supporting the IFF as a partner, along with organisations like Hivos and CPJ.

Join our sessions on topics that range from cybersecurity to the importance of the internet for economic, social and cultural rights, or how to move forward in the process of building a feminist internet.

We also encourage you to join these two big events:

• Global South Mixer Party, where we offer a space for exchange and interaction between actors from the global South.

• Chelsea Manning benefit party

APC SESSIONS AT IFF 2017

APC as lead organiser

• Using the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index for advocacy and research
  Tuesday, 7 March, 14:30-18:00

• Practical implementations of human rights-respecting cybersecurity policy
  Wednesday, 8 March, 14:30-15:30

• Feminist Tech Exchange Safety Reboot
  Thursday, 9 March, 11:00-13:15 and 14:30-15:30

• The Global South Mixer Party
  Thursday, 9 March, 19:30

• Economic, social and cultural rights and the internet: The battle in the struggle for human rights
  Friday, 10 March, 14:30-15:30

• Promoting the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms
  Friday, 10 March, 15:45-16:45

APC as a speaker

• Can you hear us now? Celebrating gender campaigns in MENA
  Friday, 10 March, 17:00-18:00

• Queering the internet: Sexual expression and censorship in digital domains
  Thursday, 9 March, 12:15-13:15

• Building collective power to counter violence and censorship against feminist and women’s groups on the internet
  Friday, 10 March, 14:30-18:00

APC network member sessions

• Accesibilidad y usabilidad en sitios web
  Monday, 6 March, 18:15-19:15

• Campaigning for privacy: Sharing experiences, failures and victories
  Tuesday, 7 March, 9:45-10:45

• Digital security for women human rights defenders (WHRDs) as part of holistic and feminist practice in Latin America and the Caribbean
  Tuesday, 7 March, 11:00-12:00

• DDoS self-defence: Community resilience to a growing censorship threat
  Tuesday, 7 March, 12:15-13:15

• Tools and tech showcase
  Tuesday, 7 March, 19:30

• Data Exploration Hackathon: Visualising the relationship between rule of law and digital rights in MENA and beyond
  Wednesday, 8 March, 14:30-18:15

• Usability in secure multi-party chat systems
  Wednesday, 8 March, 15:45-16:45

• How to work with a graphic designer: A guide for activists and civil society organisations
  Wednesday, 8 March, 14:30-15:30

• Regional solutions to local issues
  Wednesday, 8 March, 18:15-19:15

• The case for digital rights: Strategies for increasing private sector accountability and transparency
  Thursday, 9 March, 12:15-13:15

• Internet Freedom in Africa: Navigating the challenges

• Growing up and aware: What we can learn about digital safety from youth in Jordan/Lebanon/Palestine
  Friday, 10 March, 11:00-12:00

• Grassroots gender activism in underprivileged areas: Building education and awareness and fostering actions
  Friday, 10 March, 11:00-12:00

• Collaborative security: From training to empowerment
  Friday, 10 March, 11:00-12:00

• African women and the internet: Re-defining ‘African sexuality’ and freedom of expression in the African internet
  Friday, 10 March, 11:00-12:00