01.07.2014 | BICC: Western surveillance technologies and 'ungoverned spaces' – Challenges to protect (media) freedom

“From Information to Participation—Challenges for the Media” is the topic of the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum which will take place from 30 June to 2 July 2014 at the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB). On 1 July, BICC will conduct the workshop “Western surveillance technologies and ‘ungoverned spaces’ – Challenges to protect (media) freedom”.

The workshop seeks to discuss the following questions:

  • Social media and online journalism under attack: How state authorities misuse the Internet to intimidate and suppress the opposition? (Egypt and other cases)
  • How do surveillance technologies work?
  • The cyberspace as “ungoverned space”: What is the logic behind this concept and where do we meet it?
  • Challenges in export control: How can a comprehensive, institutionally supported set of rules and regulations, which foresees a general authorization when exporting security and surveillance technologies suited to violate human rights be implemented?

Panelists will be:

  • Menso Heus, Coordinator Internet Protection Lab, The Netherlands
  • Conrad Schetter, Director for Research at BICC, Germany
  • Marc von Boemcken, researcher at BICC and co-editor of the German Peace Report, Germany

Moderator: Ahmed Khalifa, researcher and photo journalist, Egypt / Germany

More information on the BICC workshop

The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum is a congress with international reach. Having grown steadily since its launch in 2008, more than 2,500 people from130 nations took part in the most recent conference in June 2013. The forum draws people from the fields of media, politics, culture, business, development cooperation, academia and civil society. They discuss and design approaches to meeting the challenges of global development in which the media play a central role.

BICC has been conducting workshops in the framework of the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum since 2008.

Program information

Flyer

Registration (only possible with this link)

Source: BICC Press release from 23.06.2014

“From Information to Participation—Challenges for the Media” is the topic of the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum which will take place from 30 June to 2 July 2014 at the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB). On 1 July, BICC will conduct the workshop “Western surveillance technologies and ‘ungoverned spaces’ – Challenges to protect (media) freedom”.

The workshop seeks to discuss the following questions:

  • Social media and online journalism under attack: How state authorities misuse the Internet to intimidate and suppress the opposition? (Egypt and other cases)
  • How do surveillance technologies work?
  • The cyberspace as “ungoverned space”: What is the logic behind this concept and where do we meet it?
  • Challenges in export control: How can a comprehensive, institutionally supported set of rules and regulations, which foresees a general authorization when exporting security and surveillance technologies suited to violate human rights be implemented?

Panelists will be:

  • Menso Heus, Coordinator Internet Protection Lab, The Netherlands
  • Conrad Schetter, Director for Research at BICC, Germany
  • Marc von Boemcken, researcher at BICC and co-editor of the German Peace Report, Germany

Moderator: Ahmed Khalifa, researcher and photo journalist, Egypt / Germany

More information on the BICC workshop

The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum is a congress with international reach. Having grown steadily since its launch in 2008, more than 2,500 people from130 nations took part in the most recent conference in June 2013. The forum draws people from the fields of media, politics, culture, business, development cooperation, academia and civil society. They discuss and design approaches to meeting the challenges of global development in which the media play a central role.

BICC has been conducting workshops in the framework of the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum since 2008.

Program information

Flyer

Registration (only possible with this link)

Source: BICC Press release from 23.06.2014