[Air-L] WEBCAST MAR 30 – Championing Digital Democracy for All: Collective Action from the Technology for Democracy Cohort

[Joly MacFie]

This week is 'Summit for Democracy' week in DC. Kenny Olmstead will be
representing our Pulse team, and no doubt providing global shutdown
metrics, at this side event, which is a warm up for the mainstage United
States hosted 'Advancing Technology for Democracy <https://bit.ly/42LUvK5>'
session at 11:30 EDT (15:30 UTC) which will also be webcast
<https://youtu.be/gN6lJI4EflE>

No real time text, but I will run a quick transcript into the archive.


[image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16457>On *Thursday March 30
2023* at *09:30-11:00
EDT* (13:30-15:00 UTC)  *Technology for Democracy Cohort
<https://summit4democracy.org/tech-for-democracy-cohort-meeting-notes-and-concept/>*
 co-leads *Estonia <https://www.vm.ee/en>*, the *United Kingdom
<https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office>*,
and *Access Now <https://www.accessnow.org/>*, together with *New America
<https://www.newamerica.org/digital-impact-governance-initiative/>*,
*Accountability
Lab <https://accountabilitylab.org/>*, *Open Data Charter
<https://opendatacharter.net/>*, the *Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics
Research Lab <https://www.digitalsherlocks.org/>*, and the* Internet
Society <https://internetsociety.org/>* present '*Championing Digital
Democracy for All: Collective Action from the Technology for Democracy
Cohort
<https://www.newamerica.org/digital-impact-governance-initiative/events/online-championing-digital-democracy-for-all-collective-action-from-the-technology-for-democracy-cohort/>*'.
The cohort will tackle priority action areas, including technology to
support open and secure access to the Internet, and strengthening digital
public infrastructure and tech for good governance, and explore how we can
drive cross-sector collaboration among open, democratic societies beyond
this year’s *Summit for Democracy
<https://www.state.gov/summit-for-democracy-2023/>*.

*SPEAKERS*
*Hon. Isobel Coleman*, USAID Deputy Administrator
*Hon. Jonatan Vseviov*, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Estonia
*H.E. Nele Leosk*, Ambassador-at-Large for Digital Affairs, Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Estonia
*H.E. Minna-Liina Lind*, Estonia Ambassador at Large for Human Rights
*H.E. Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen*, Tech Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Denmark
*Scott Busby*, Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights, and Labor, U.S. State Department
*Robert Opp*, Chief Digital Officer, UNDP
*Kanbar Hossein-Bor*, Deputy Director of Democratic Governance and Media
Freedom Department; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the
United Kingdom
*Manuel Muñiz*, Provost of IE University in Madrid
*Brett Solomon*, Executive Director, Access Now
*Natalia Carfi*, Executive Director, Open Data Charter
*Teresa Hutson*, Corporate Vice President of Technology and Corporate
Responsibility, Microsoft
*Scott Carpenter*, Director of Policy and International Engagement, Jigsaw
*Carolyn Tackett*, Campaigns & Rapid Response Director, Access Now
*Kenny Olmstead*, Senior Internet Security and Privacy Expert, Internet
Society Pulse
*Allie Funk*, Freedom House
*Waris Hussain*, American Bar Association
*Paul Butler*, President, New America
*Silvana Rodriguez*, New America

*LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/vI62o51cHIw <https://youtu.be/vI62o51cHIw>*

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