Human Rights, Digital Rights and AI: An Introduction to Governing Digital Rights – Webinar Recording

This first webinar in a series of three, focused on some of the negative impacts of digital technologies and the corporations driving their development and adoption. Concerns about discrimination, privacy, cyberbullying, misinformation, disinformation, and widening digital inequality have grown. The lack of accountability and effective regulation was a key driver for the adoption in 2024 of the UN Global Digital Compact. This webinar looked at some of the key human rights issues in South East Asia, and helped to build awareness of the UN Global Compact as a response, and explore whether it is a tool that human rights defenders can use.

Nenden Sekar Arum of SAFENET drew from her experience on the frontline of these issues in South East Asia to share some of the key issues. David Mejia-Canales outlined how similar issues globally, including of effective governance of the private sector, led to the adoption of the UN Global Compact. In building awareness of the UN Global Compact both speakers addressed whether is in an adequate response to the human rights risks posed by the digital world – and shared thoughts on how it can be used.