Today we formally launch the RDR Research Lab, a new resource that guides digital rights researchers through the process of designing, executing, and promoting research on platform accountability anywhere in the world, using RDR’s methodology and standards.
In this conversation, RDR’s Leandro Ucciferri and Aliya Bhatia speak with Roya Pakzad and Melody Kazemi about Iran’s government-led startup boom, the localization efforts that threaten users’ rights, and the unique role that the diaspora plays in advocating for digital rights.
Photo by Dying Regime via CC 2.0 The dramatic growth in the use and availability of mobile broadband in South and Southeast Asia has meant unprecedented access to new tools like email, messaging apps, and social media for the region’s human rights defenders. But, despite
Orange phone booth, Central African Republic. Photo by DFID–UK Department for International Development via CC 2.0. In November 2021, telecommunication company TIGO Tanzania was called to testify against the country’s main opposition leader, Freeman Mbowe, during a trial in which the government accused Mbowe of
In this conversation, RDR’s Global Partnerships Manager Leandro Ucciferri and Senior Editor Sophia Crabbe-Field speak with Jenni Olson, the Senior Director of Social Media Safety at GLAAD, the national LGBTQ media advocacy organization, which campaigns on behalf of LGBTQ people in film, television, and print
Today we formally launch the RDR Research Lab, a new resource that guides digital rights researchers through the process of designing, executing, and promoting research on platform accountability anywhere in the world, using RDR’s methodology and standards.
In this conversation, RDR’s Leandro Ucciferri and Aliya Bhatia speak with Roya Pakzad and Melody Kazemi about Iran’s government-led startup boom, the localization efforts that threaten users’ rights, and the unique role that the diaspora plays in advocating for digital rights.
Photo by Dying Regime via CC 2.0 The dramatic growth in the use and availability of mobile broadband in South and Southeast Asia has meant unprecedented access to new tools like email, messaging apps, and social media for the region’s human rights defenders. But, despite
Orange phone booth, Central African Republic. Photo by DFID–UK Department for International Development via CC 2.0. In November 2021, telecommunication company TIGO Tanzania was called to testify against the country’s main opposition leader, Freeman Mbowe, during a trial in which the government accused Mbowe of
In this conversation, RDR’s Global Partnerships Manager Leandro Ucciferri and Senior Editor Sophia Crabbe-Field speak with Jenni Olson, the Senior Director of Social Media Safety at GLAAD, the national LGBTQ media advocacy organization, which campaigns on behalf of LGBTQ people in film, television, and print
