Global Network Initiative

🚨 New speakers announced 🚨 Only limited places remain to join us in person at our one-day event on the role of responsible business in times of heightened conflict, hosted at the International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC HQ in Geneva. Join us for: ⚖ Discussions on laws and frameworks that can help businesses address conflict-related dilemmas, including the implications of the new EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. 🗣 Expert panels focused on the impact of conflict on responsible business in specific sectors including commodities, technology and finance. 💡 Practical ideas to help navigate societal conflicts and establish trust between companies and their stakeholders. For details of the full agenda and how to register, visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gea6mKxJ

We are really happy to join the Global Network Initiative (GNI) as a member. I was a GNI-Internews Digital Rights Fellow, and since then, remained connected to its work. Now with Digitally Right, I truly hope we can make meaningful contributions to promoting the principles we share.

📢 GNI is pleased to announce that Digitally Right Ltd has joined GNI’s civil society constituency as a member. DRL is a Bangladesh-based organization dedicated to promoting a free and open digital space. It supports civil society, media, and businesses with critical knowledge and solutions to help them navigate the ever-changing information ecosystem. On DRL's membership, GNI Executive Director Jason Pielemeier remarked, “We have been tracking and relying on the great work of Digitally Right for several years and are thrilled to have them join. Recent developments in Bangladesh have underscored the importance of digital rights and provided valuable lessons that extend well beyond South Asia.” Read the full press release: https://lnkd.in/ejNJ4U3f

GNI is #hiring a part-time Office Administrator. We are seeking a dedicated professional with 5+ years of experience in office management, ideally in the non-profit sector, to help maintain the smooth running and operation of the organization. This can be a remote or hybrid position at our Washington, DC office. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. More information on the position: https://lnkd.in/gc8Quy-R

In early August, GNI published a blog outlining five fundamental changes that we have made for the fifth assessment cycle. These changes individually and collectively recognize the needs of our membership for a dynamic, adaptable, meaningful, and efficient assessment process that addresses the evolution of GNI, its membership, and the external environment. Our latest blog details adjustments made to GNI's assessment process: https://lnkd.in/e5TP-SZA

Catch us in Taipei this week! GNI's Min A. and Samaya Anjum are participating at the #APrIGF2024 from 21 to 23 August, come chat with us in between panels. Earlier in the week, GNI also held a session with member Tech Global Institute at #DRAPAC24. The joint session and interactive workshop utilised a Human Rights Due Diligence tool developed by GNI and an Election Accountability Assessment Framework developed by TGI to offer an ecosystem-focused evaluation for interdisciplinary, multicultural actors to hold digital platforms accountable. Link to GNI's Across the Stack HRDD tool: https://lnkd.in/g-D7Xtku Link to TGI's Election Accountability Assessment Framework: https://lnkd.in/g6m_g9C5

I was unable to attend the Global Network Initiative Digital Trust and Safety Partnership "European Rights and Risks" forum held in Brussels earlier this year to discuss EU Digital Services Act (DSA) Systemic Risk Assessments, so I appreciated this report summarizing the key takeaways. There is a lot in this report that resonated, but I will highlight one item and one observation. The report highlights that when designing actions to address risks it will be important to remember that what is appropriate for one service (e.g., a search engine) may be inappropriate for another (e.g., a social media or maps service). Appropriate action may also change over time as technology, use cases, and social context evolve, so the desire for common standards may remain somewhat elusive. This variable dynamic will be quite different than the more straight line character (identify risk, mitigate, track, repeat....) that we often see in other risk assessment settings. This raises one other observation that has been on my mind lately. Given that the DSA is about systemic risk (i.e., risk one part of a system can cascade to, and be connected with, risk elsewhere in a system) it will be important to consider company actions as a collective whole. For this reason, when the first reports of DSA systemic risk assessments are published later this year, it will be important to ask not just "who did it best" (a natural inclination!) but also "what do the reports tell us about one interconnected technology ecosystem?" In this context I fear that the emphasis on only the 19 largest services will provide an incomplete picture. #dsa #bizhumanrights

GNI is #hiring a part-time Office Administrator. We are seeking a dedicated professional with 5+ years of experience in office management, ideally in the non-profit sector, to help maintain the smooth running and operation of the organization. This can be a remote or hybrid position at our Washington, DC office. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. More information on the position: https://lnkd.in/gc8Quy-R

GNI is #hiring a part-time Office Administrator. We are seeking a dedicated professional with 5+ years of experience in office management, ideally in the non-profit sector, to help maintain the smooth running and operation of the organization. This can be a remote or hybrid position at our Washington, DC office. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. More information on the position: https://lnkd.in/gc8Quy-R

Recommended reading ⤵ for anyone concerned about societal risks related to AI and Big Tech. This forum in the EU started important conversations between Big Tech and human rights orgs, within the framework of the European Commission's Digital Services Act. Areas of focus include risks related to electoral processes, conflict settings, and harmful content. Our work to push corporations in the US (Microsoft, Meta & Alphabet Inc.) to assess and report on their own AI risks is closely related, and we hope that positive outcomes in the EU will bolster our own dialogues with tech companies.