Technology and Human Rights
Campaign Focus :
To enhance data protection and data governance practices within Kenya and East Africa as a whole.
Campaign Goal:
We are working to answer one of the most critical questions facing the world today: what do our human rights look like in the digital age?
We believe it is time technology put Human Rights first.
Rewire
The internet puts people and human rights first, ensuring Big Tech is effectively regulated to protect human rights, and companies are more transparent and more accountable.
Resist
The use of technology to silence activists, preventing unlawful surveillance, censorship and internet shutdowns.
Rewrite
The code to protect human rights, ensuring discrimination and bias are no longer programmed into algorithms that make life-changing decisions about us.
Our Campaigns
Children and Young People’s Digital Rights
Each month, more than five million children go online for the first time. We’re running a major partnership with young people to ensure digital technologies protect their rights, health and wellbeing.
From algorithms amplifying insecurities to influencers peddling hate speech, the dangers of online spaces for children and young people frequently make headlines. But too little is happening to change this, and youth voices are largely invisible from the debate.
Through RIGHTS Click-online platforms and other digital technologies we are developing campaigns to ensure young people can shape safe online spaces and thrive in them and enjoy their health and well-being.
Data Governance and Data Protection
In partnership with organizations such as the Open Institute, Office of the Data Protection Commission, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology, (Strathmore University), we come together to promote data protection and governance practices within Kenya and East African Region
Our main aim is to collaborate and bring data protection main actors, investigate, research and learn from each other in an effort to strengthen advocacy around data governance issues in Kenya.
Digital Identity – shaping policy discussions surrounding the Unique Personal Identifier. Through our work in this area, we strive to influence policy decisions to ensure Kenya’s Digital ID is data protection and human rights compliant, with a priority on privacy and inclusion.
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