L'importanza degli archivi contro la disinformazione dei regimi autoritari
Fri 19 April 2024
17:00
Free
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Corruption of history remains as much a weapon in the authoritarian playbook as it was before our current age of information abundance. There are no guarantees that once content is on the internet it is safe forever. Authoritarian regimes around the world are suppressing and erasing dissenting voices online, effectively rewriting history, and seeding confusion and conflict with ‘alternative facts’ - enabled by Big Tech. In an era of mass-produced AI content, the provenance of legitimate information is becoming increasingly critical; we dare not leave this process solely in the hands of unaccountable AI companies or authoritarian regimes.
This panel will showcase how media outlets around the world are using archives to protect and futureproof information – a bedrock of media freedom. We will discuss examples of how to archive safely, affordably and accessibly, explore how archives can be put to work in service of storytelling, trust-building and business sustainability, and how technologies like blockchain can be used to safeguard information in highly censored environments.
Panellists will share how they are working to protect, preserve and (re)publish information that enables them to build an accurate record and hold power to account. In countries where public information is already at risk, rare or even non-existent, this may be all that stands against efforts to rewrite history, manufacture enemies, and seed conflict.
Moderated by Mary Fitzgerald.
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Sala della Vaccara
La Sala della Vaccara si trova nel lato nord del Palazzo dei Priori, nell’area ove sorgeva l'antica chiesa di San Severo. Fu realizzata attorno al 1339 ed è stata sede del primo archivio comunale. La sala si presenta con volte a crociera e costolature e al suo interno rimangono brani di affreschi raffiguranti santi protettori dei traffici commerciali e delle attività artigianali. Sulla parete di fondo è collocato un distacco di affresco raffigurante la Madonna con Bambino e Santi di Tiberio di Assisi (Scuola umbra del XV Sec.).
Moneim Adam
Moneim Adam has more than a decade of experience in the fields of international law, human rights, and litigation. He advised local non-governmental organizations as a human rights attorney in domestic courts, advised international organizations as a legal advisor and consultant, and oversaw projects as a manager and project director. He commenced his legal practice specializing in cases about human rights after he completed law school and acquisition of a legal practice license in Sudan. He devoted more attention to assisting minority and marginalized communities. He advised Freedom House and Project Expedite Justice (PEJ), an organization that has since merged with the Global Diligence Alliance. He earned an LL.M. in international law and human rights from Riga Graduate School of Law in 2017 intending to assist the accountability mechanism and human rights practice in postwar Sudan. His responsibilities include overseeing the Sudan Human Rights Hub (SHRH) and the archive initiativ...
Claudia Baez
CEO and co-founder of Cuestión Pública, a Colombian independent investigative media outlet, Claudia Báez is an award-winning investigative data journalist and media entrepreneur. She was one of the architects of one of the most comprehensive databases of the Colombian armed conflict at the National Center of Historical Memory. Claudia was a ProPublica fellow during the U.S. elections in 2016. She has been a data-driven journalism lecturer on Master's degrees and postgraduate classes at universities in Colombia and Ecuador.
Mary Fitzgerald
Mary Fitzgerald is Director of Expression at Open Society Foundations, leading its global work to advance open society values at the intersection of journalism, technology, and culture and art. Prior to joining the Open Society, Fitzgerald was editor-in-chief and CEO of the global news outlet openDemocracy, where she built an award-winning team of journalists and oversaw major growth in the organization’s global reach and impact. She established an investigative journalism unit and led ground-breaking campaigns to defend journalism and force transparency from governments and big tech. Before openDemocracy, she worked as a senior campaigner with the global organization Avaaz, where she organized campaigns to defend human rights and expose corruption, and as a senior editor of Prospect magazine in London. She has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the New York Review of Books, the Boston Globe, Al Jazeera, and others. She currently sits on the Avaaz b...
Jakub Gornicki
Jakub Górnicki is co-founder of Outriders, an award-winning media publication combining art, journalism and technology to create stories about global issues and events. Jakub covered the migration crisis in 2015, Belarusian protests in 2020 and the war in Ukraine. He remains focused on migration and conflict. He is the winner of Paszporty Polityki, INMA Global Media Awards and is a European Press Prize nominee. Previously, as COO and board member of ePaństwo Foundation, he developed it into a leading open data/transparency NGO globally. He started Code for Poland, worked there for six years, and transformed it into Code for All together with Code for America. He also co-operated with Open Cities, a program helping European cities adopt open data policies as well as Personal Democracy Forum in CEE and TransparenCEE.