| APrIGF 2022 Session Proposal Submission Form | |||||||||||||||
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| Part 1 - Lead Organizer | |||||||||||||||
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| Dr. Sherly Haristya | |||||||||||||||
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| Indonesia | |||||||||||||||
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| Civil Society | |||||||||||||||
| List Your Organizing Partners (if any) | |||||||||||||||
| Dr. Abdul Rohman, RMIT University Vietnam, abdul.rohman@rmit.edu.vn | |||||||||||||||
| Part 2 - Session Proposal | |||||||||||||||
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| Unfolding resistance and resilience during COVID-19 pandemic: Cases of civil society groups in Southeast Asia | |||||||||||||||
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| Panel Discussion | |||||||||||||||
| Where do you plan to organize your session? | |||||||||||||||
| Onsite at the venue (with online moderator for questions and comments from remote participants) | |||||||||||||||
| Specific Issues for Discussion | |||||||||||||||
| The covid-19 pandemic has magnified the tension between equity and security in the deployment of socio-technical approaches for defeating the pandemic, such as contact tracing apps and surveillance technologies. Despite their unclear efficacy in flattening the infection curve, many governments have pursued technological deterministic strategies, rather than implementing human-centric pandemic responses. In effect, the pandemic has reportedly fertilized authoritarian practices as the authorities imposed a series of mobility restrictions and utilized emerging technologies for surveilling citizens. Dissenters and critics of such practices are squashed through elaborated tactics, such as state-sponsored hacking and cyber trolling. The pandemic thus has exacerbated the existing barriers to promoting freedom as the authorities have stronger justifications for implementing a range of authoritarian measures as the virus raged, particularly in the Southeast Asia region. In countries that used to be seen as the icon of democracy in Southeast Asia, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, freedom to opine is decreasing. Meanwhile, in socialist-communist countries in the region, such as Vietnam and Laos, freedom becomes even subtler. In countries facing political and economic transitions, such as Burma and Timor Leste, the challenge for promoting freedom range from pandemic measures to government crackdowns. Civil society groups in the region have been continuously advocating for equity and justice, primarily when their space to opine is shrinking due to online and offline barricades that the authorities deploy during the pandemic. This panel intends to discuss case studies pertaining to the new oppressions that the civil society groups in Southeast Asia face as a result of the deployment of emerging technologies and pandemic measures, together with promoting constructive dialogues with relevant stakeholders for more just and equitable responses to future pandemics. |
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| Describe the Relevance of Your Session to APrIGF | |||||||||||||||
| The panel aims to gain an understanding of the dynamics behind the challenges faced by both state and non-state groups in the deployment of effective and safe digital technologies during the pandemic. It will particularly delve deeper into the challenges and needs of civil society groups in the region, who work on public health and digital rights issues, in their efforts to have a dialogue with other stakeholder groups to ease the tension between the two important goals of public health and the right to data privacy. With that, the panel is hoped to build dialogue and trust among multiple stakeholders to find ways forward to promote the development of people-centered digital technologies to tackle the pandemic and other future crises. | |||||||||||||||
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| Please explain the rationale for choosing each of the above contributors to the session. | |||||||||||||||
| A representative from academia to explain the overall tradeoff between public safety and health and the right to data privacy in the use of these digital. technologies to tackle a pandemic. A representative from one of the in-country researchers to explain the ongoing findings of the project, namely on the challenges and needs faced by civil society groups in advocating for people-centered digital technologies. A representative from the Health Ministry from a Southeast Asia country to deliver the challenges and needs faced by a state in tackling the pandemic. A representative from technical community/ private sector to explain about the workability of people-centered digital technologies. Please note that our ability to conduct this short-term research project (6 months from June - October 2022) and to present the findings at the APrIGF (September 2022) relies upon the results of our research grant application. |
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| Please declare if you have any potential conflict of interest with the Program Committee 2022. | |||||||||||||||
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| Are you or other session contributors planning to apply for the APrIGF Fellowship Program 2022? | |||||||||||||||
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 I agree that my data can be submitted to forms.for.asia and processed by APrIGF organizers for the program selection of APrIGF 2022. |
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