RightsCon 2014: Technology and Human Rights Discussions This Week

This week, the International Justice Resource Center (IJRC) is participating in RightsCon 2014, a conference focused on the intersections between technology and human rights “with the goal of protecting the open internet and the digital rights of its users.” The three-day convening is hosted by Access and is taking place in San Francisco, California.

The program includes dozens of panels, roundtable discussions, and technology demonstrations with a wide range of speakers from human rights and civil society organizations, academia, technology companies, and government. Follow the livestream of select panels below and here. Through Wednesday of this week, IJRC staff will be blogging several sessions each day and providing live updates on Twitter.