Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits the 3rd High School of Heraklion
Last week Homo Digitalis traveled far again! Following the very successful tour in Peloponnese, Central Greece, and Northern Greece, Crete was next.
Homo Digitalis spoke at the 3rd High School of Heraklion, talking to more than 90 students about Cyberbullying. The members who represented us were Adamantia Volikou, Angelina Barla and the President of Homo Digitalis Elpida Vamvaka.
We would like to thank the responsible Professor Mrs. Fotini Konstantaki (Computer Science Teacher) for the invitation and the excellent hospitality!
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits the 63rd Primary School and the 28th High School of Thessaloniki
Last week Homo Digitalis literally hit the road again! Following the very successful 1500 km tour in Peloponnese and Central Greece, it was the turn of Northern Greece with 5 different schools!
After the visits to the 3rd Serres High School, the Ierissos High School and the Arnaia High School in Halkidiki, it was time for the capital of Macedonia, the beautiful Thessaloniki!
Homo Digitalis spoke at the 63rd Primary School of Thessaloniki about cyber bullying to teachers and children of the 5th and 6th grade! Many thanks to our members Melina Skondra & Athanasia Tychala for their representation, their unquenchable desire to pass on their knowledge to children and the school’s director Ms. Adamidou for the invitation!!!
But one school is not enough! So, our President Elpida Vamvaka and Charalampos Daftsios represented Homo Digitalis at the 28th General High School of Thessaloniki talking to teachers and students of the 1st grade about the digital footprint. Thanks to the school’s Director, Mrs. Halvatzi for the invitation!
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits Arnaia High School in Halkidiki
Last week Homo Digitalis hit the road again!
After the very successful 1500 km tour in the Peloponnese and Central Greece, the 4 schools and the more than 600 students and teachers we met there, this time it was the turn of Northern Greece with 5 different schools and a new record of kilometers and students!
After Serres, it was the turn of Chalkidiki!
The second school (see the first one here) we visited there was the High School of Arnaia! Our Director for Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Lamprini Gyftokosta, spoke with the students of the first grade about the digital footprint and was lucky enough to be in front of an incredible audience, who asked pertinent questions, exercised their critical thinking and responded positively to our call for more control of our personal data!
We would like to thank the Director Mr. Tsiliverdi Dimitrios and the IT Teacher Ms. Eleni Letta for the invitation!
Homo Digitalis’ actions in the field of student awareness are carried out with the organization’s own resources and with the contribution of our network of volunteers! Your support is very important to achieve more in the new year!
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits the High School of Ierissos
Last week Homo Digitalis literally hit the road again!
After the very successful 1500 km tour in the Peloponnese and Central Greece, the 4 schools and the more than 600 students and teachers we met there, this time it was the turn of Northern Greece with 5 different schools and a new record of kilometers and students!
After Serres, it was the turn of Chalkidiki!
Homo Digitalis talked about the digital footprint to all the students of the Ierissos High School and Ierissos Gymnasium. The active participation of the children and teachers in these interactive presentations fills us with joy and hope, but also with ideas for a wider public awareness on these issues.
We thank Charalambos Daftsios and Lambrini Yftokosta for representing us to over 350 children and especially to our excellent host and Director of the High School, Mrs. Mavroudi for inviting us to host the event.
Homo Digitalis’ actions in the field of student awareness are carried out with the organization’s own resources and with the contribution of our network of volunteers! Your support is very important to achieve more in the new year!
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits the 3rd High School of Serres
Last week Homo Digitalis hit the road again!
After the very successful 1500 km tour in the Peloponnese and Central Greece, the 4 schools and the more than 600 students and teachers we met there, this time it was the turn of Northern Greece with 5 different schools and a new record of kilometers and students!
We started from Serres, in a historic place, a neoclassical building built in 1885 to house the city’s hospital and then converted into the first Gymnasium of Thileon Serres, and now operating as the 3rd Gymnasium of the city! We were there on April 1 to talk to students and teachers about the digital footprint.
We would like to thank the Director Mrs. Arapaki Chrysanthi and the IT teacher Mr. Moscholios Stavros for the invitation!
Homo Digitalis’ actions in the field of student awareness are carried out with the organization’s own resources and with the contribution of our network of volunteers! Your support is very important to achieve more in the new year!
We participated at DFF’s Annual Strategy Meeting (ASM24)
We participated at DFF’s Annual Strategy Meeting (ASM24)
Two weeks ago, Homo Digitalis’ President, Elpida Vamvaka, was in Berlin at Digital Freedom Fund’s Annual Strategy Meeting (ASM24). We are grateful for the chance to engage in enriching dialogue with such inspiring fellow digital rights defenders working to propel human rights forward!
The meeting’s goals were to share meaningful exchanges and updates on digital rights topics, explore new opportunities to organise and collaborate at the intersection of racial, social, economic and environmental justice, to centre care, to safeguard well-being and to build resilience.
The meeting featured peer-driven highlights from DFF’s network, discussions mapping the 2024 landscape and beyond on digital rights issues, knowledge and skill sharing sessions, and a powerful panel on war crimes & digital rights. Stay tuned for the video coming soon!
Topics ranged from queer & trans*, labour, disability, environmental, welfare, prisoners’, children’s and migrants’ rights, to spyware, surveillance, digital policing, platform accountability, movement lawyering, organising for digital justice, and many more.
We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the organizers for inviting us, as well as to all individual participants and represented organisations for making this year’s Annual Strategy Meeting a success.
Elpida Vamvaka of Homo Digitalis at the Multistakeholder Committee of the Digital World Summit Greece
Elpida Vamvaka of Homo Digitalis is a member of the Multistakeholder Committee of Digital World Summit Greece as an expert in cybersecurity and privacy.
Elpida Vamvaka is a Lawyer, co-founding member and President of Homo Digitalis, to which she volunteers her services, while she is currently working as Head Legal Counsel at Team Blue Greece, Papaki/Tophost which are two of the largest technology companies and Digital Enablers in Greece.
She has led data protection compliance projects in Public and Private Entities. In addition, he has been employed as a legal advisor to the Athena Research Centre in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies.
Our new action before the European Data Protection Board on its case regardin Meta's Pay Or Okay model
Last Thursday, 7 March, together with European Digital Rights and other important civil society organisations, we submitted an Open Letter to the European Data Protection Board (EDPS) on Meta’s #PayOrOkay model.
We call on the EDPS in its opinion to condemn these commercial subscription models that allow those with the money to pay for their privacy and those without to be at the mercy of the voracious data collection practices of big tech companies.
You can read our letter in detail here. This is Homo Digitalis’ second relevant action against Meta’s Pay or Okay model on a pan-European level.
Our joint action on the Digital Euro & Right to Cash legislative initiatives
At the end of February, together with epicenter.works, European Digital Rights and other important civil society organisations, we sent a letter to the MEPs who are the rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs of the DigitalEuro and Right To Cash packages.
Despite the fact that both proposed pieces of legislation are part of the same legislative package, we see that the relevant negotiations are moving at two different speeds!
With the European elections approaching and uncertainty prevailing regarding the proposed legislation on the Digital Euro and the challenges that arise with its technical features, we call on MEPs to separate these two legislative proposals in order to spend the necessary time to solve the problems that have been identified and highlighted by academics, and other experts in the field.
You can view our joint letter here.