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Anastasia PociumbanResearch fellow and Project Manager for the Eastern Partnership Think Tank, German Council on Foreign Relations Network https://www.linkedin.com/in/apociumban/The complex relationship between the right to access information and the presence of disinformation in the context of hybrid threats.In my brief presentation, I will focus on disinformation as a hybrid threat (including the threat to sustainable development, good governance, and the exercise of other human rights), particularly when it is wielded either directly or indirectly by foreign states and infringe upon the right to access truthful information. I will illustrate this by examining Russian-language content that exploits war narratives to target Russian-speaking audiences in Moldova. Our discussion will encompass themes such as polarization, the amplification of echo chambers, and will touch upon how artificial intelligence can be harnessed to generate and disseminate disinformation, ultimately shaping narratives and targeting specific segments of the population.19 October 2023, 15.00 CET Microsoft Teams meeting
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Oscar Sanchez PineiroUNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesCommunicating with Vulnerable Refugee Populations in the Midst of Tech Revolution: Strategies for Effective Communication and Feedback Gathering in the Pursuit of International Protection - Insights from the Brazilian ContextIn a rapidly evolving technological landscape, communication with vulnerable refugee populations has taken on new dimensions. This talk delves into the challenges and innovative solutions for reaching and engaging with at-risk communities seeking international protection, with a particular focus on the Brazilian experience. Drawing from real-world experiences, this presentation explores strategies for harnessing technology to ensure effective communication, provide vital information, and obtain valuable feedback from refugee populations. By discussing lessons learned and successful approaches, we aim to foster a deeper understanding of how to navigate this critical aspect of humanitarian work in the digital age.16 November 2023, 16:30 CETMicrosoft Teams meeting
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Romain BircherRomain has been working for the ICRC for more than 30 years in different positions. From 1989 to 2000, he worked in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Croatia and Israel to protect and assist prisoners of war (PoWs) and civilians affected by armed conflicts and other situations of violence. While stationed at ICRC Headquarters in Geneva, Romain advised ICRC delegations on the protection of detainees or POWs in regions like the Horn of Africa, Middle East, and America post-9/11. Notably, he established two specialized units: one to restore family links and clarify the fate of missing persons, and the other to enhance data management and information technology in protection and restoring family links. During his tenure as ICRC Deputy Director of Communication and Information Management from 2015 to 2018, he drafted the new digital strategy for the ICRC. Presently, Romain leads a challenge team tasked with developing the RedSafe digital platform, providing innovative humanitarian services to people affected by conflicts, migration or humanitarian crisis.Title of the talk: RedSafe, the challenge of building a new digital platform for people affected by humanitarian crisis.In 2019, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) started to explore the idea of building and testing a new digital platform to meet the needs of people affected by armed conflicts, migration and other humanitarian crisis.
The first pilot of this platform, called RedSafe, focused on refugees or migrants’ needs and was launched in May 2021 in Southern Africa. Since then, RedSafe has been downloaded by more than 250’000 users in Southern Africa and Central America where it does currently deliver 6 specific services.
This session will focus mainly on the non-technical challenges for the ICRC to build a new digital humanitarian platform for vulnerable people living in hostile environments.		05 December 2023, 13.30 CETMicrosoft Teams meeting
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Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez Associate Professor and Head of Modern Philology at the University of Alcala (Spain). Research about attitudes towards migration, multicultural communication, and public service interpreting and translation.Public service interpreting and language technologiesThe talk will cover recent advances about the use of technology in public service interpreting delivery, including the acceptance and the intention of use of technology by interpreters. It will also explore emergent technologies and approaches in the research and practice of public service interpreting.18 June 2024, 13.00 CETMicrosoft Teams Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 394 637 126 434 Passcode: YQUV29
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Päivi RainòPäivi Raino currently works at Humak University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki. Päivi does research among the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities on Linguistic Accessibility, Inter- and Intralinguistic Interpreting.From totalitarian to shared technology (?)Deaf people (especially children and adolescents), unlike other sensory and disability groups, have been the object of massive educational, technological, social and societal intervention and technological attention and development since the 19th century, as hearing deficiency is seen as limiting both their cognitive functions and the development of their world of experience and experience, marginalising them from their social environment and from the activities of society.
People diagnosed with varying degrees of hearing loss have been subjected to technological innovations, from the 19th century through the introduction of a simple electric current into the ear, to the 20th century with the development of hearing and sound imaging technology, to the introduction of intracranial hearing implants in the 21st century.
In these waves of innovation, the experience and empiricism of the deaf have been seen as worthless (Lane 1992) - in contrast to, for example, the development of digital technologies that visualise speech - although deafness and the deviant modality of sign language have been exploited in the development of, for example, hearing technologies and interlingual translation technologies and in the funding of such technologies (Blume 2010). The end result has also been unusable or one-off innovations and technical solutions, where the research and empirical evidence presented by Deaf and sign language groups has not been given weight (Jantunen & al. 2021; Raike & al. 2014).
However, people with hearing impairments of various kinds, Deaf sign language speakers in their vanguard, and young people in particular, have over time also sought to take advantage of technological and social innovations that they perceive as useful, even at the forefront of development, when they themselves see this as contributing to social, spatial or bodily integration, on their own terms, without diagnostic or normative constraints, but of which the technology industry is not necessarily aware. Technological innovations that aim at equality and accessibility have also created inequalities between non-hearing groups, for example between groups that use hearing technologies in different ways and groups that are excluded from or do not use technological solutions in their lives.
Bibliography:
Blume, S, (2010). The artificial ear. Cochlear implants and the culture of deafness. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
Lane, H. (1992). The mask of benevolence. New York: Knopf.
Jantunen, T., Rousi, R., Rainò, P., Turunen M., Valipoor, M. & García, N. (2021). Is there any hope for developing automated translation technology for Sign Languages? Teoksessa M. Hämäläinen, N. Partanen & K. Alnajjar (toim.) Multilingual Facilitation. Helsinki: University of Helsinki. https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/327786
Raike, A., Pylvänen, S. & Rainò, P. (2014). Divergent thinking is essential for creative co-design of knowledge. In: H. Dirksen L. Bauman & Joseph J. Murray (Eds.) Deaf-Gain. Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 402–420.		27 September 2024, 13.00 CETMicrosoft Teams Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 368 283 792 910 Passcode: 6Edo9e
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