Homo Digitalis participates in an online discussion on the AI Act organised by Citizen D
Online discussion on Tuesday 17 January at 15:00-16:30 by Citizen D.
The intrusion of AI into the organization of life today makes us wonder if a global regulatory framework is really needed and how it could be shaped!
Our member Chrissi Sakellari and Ana Martinović from the Share Foundation attempt to answer this question on 17 January. You can register here.
Register for the session we are co-organizing at the Privacy Camp for the use of PREDATOR in Greece
Did you register?
On 25 January, Privacy Camp takes place in Brussels, one of the most important annual meetings in the field of digital rights organised by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), European Digital Rights – EDRi, VUB – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Privacy Salon and iee.
Together with EDRi we are co-organising a summit on the use of spyware, in which we are honoured to have as our guest the journalist Elise Triantafyllou from inside.story who was the leading reporter in the revelations about the use of Predator in Greece.
Register completely free of charge for attendance in person or online until 18/1 here.
Come and meet us at the CAPrice community event in Heraklion
Tomorrow, those of you who are in Heraklion will be able to attend the interesting discussion with our member and DPO of FORTH, Anthi Stratakis and Yannis Chrysakis, who will talk to us about the CAPrice community for a secure digital privacy.
Homo Digitalis is a partner of Caprice – Community for privacy concerns and expectations and supports its actions.
-Wednesday, 11/1/2023, at 19.00, at H2B HUB Koronaiou 14, Heraklion (3rd floor).
-Register here.
Homo Digitalis participates in Turin in a meeting of the Advisory Committee of Professor Alessandro Mantelero, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in Mediterranean Digital Societies and Law.
On 12-13 December Homo Digitalis had the great honour and pleasure to be at the Politecnico di Torino, invited by Professor Alessandro Mantelero, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in Mediterranean Digital Societies and Law.
On the first day we attended a workshop attended by the Presidents of the Data Protection Authorities of Tunisia and Morocco, representatives of the Italian and Catalan Data Protection Authorities, leading academics from Italy, Greece, Malta and Spain and representatives of national and international civil society organisations.
On the second day we presented our work regarding the development and use of interventional AI technologies in Greece.
It is a great honor for Homo Digitalis to be a member of the Advisory Committee in this project, and we would like to thank Professor Alessandro Mantelero and Lecturer Maria Samantha Esposito for the kind invitation and the excellent collaboration! Our team was represented by the Secretary of the Board Eleftherios Chelioudakis.
You can learn more about the event here.
We participated in a discussion-speech after the performance of the Andromeda Theatre Group "It's Not a Game"
We actively support the Andromeda Theatre Group, which this year is staging its performance “It’s Not a Game”. The 4 extraordinary protagonists confess stories in which they have been victims or perpetrators via the internet. The topics they deal with are online blackmail, sextortion, revenge porn, bullying, scams and internet addiction.
In the context of the performance, open discussions with the audience, lasting one hour, were organized on 7 and 14 December at the nus theatre, in which Apollonia Ioannidou, a lawyer specializing in Law and Technology, and Katerina Mezini, a lawyer with a Master’s degree in Law and Information Technologies, participated from our team. Thank you to our two members for representing us in this important discussion!
The next discussion with the participation of important stakeholders will take place on 21/12!
The Glass Room Misinformation Edition exhibition that we co-organized at the National Library of Greece was a great success
Hundreds of visitors (among them over 300 students) came to The Glassroom: Misinformation Edition exhibition created by Tactical Tech and we were happy to bring it for the first time in Greece with the Digital Detox Experience and pen Open Lab Athens!
Arriving at the end of the exhibition on Friday 25/11 we organized a #cryptoparty with practical tips of encrypted and secure chat.
Thanks to the volunteers who worked hard translating the interactive games and information of each exhibit, the National Library of Greece and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for the unique hospitality!
We send a letter to the Government asking for the immediate drafting and proposal of a draft law of popular legislative initiative
Three years after the 2019 revision of the Constitution, when the institution of the popular legislative initiative was introduced for the first time in Greece, i.e. the possibility for citizens to submit legislative proposals to the Parliament, it remains inactive.
Unfortunately, there is no apparent legislative intention from the Greek government as an implementing law is required. This is a disheartening contempt for the Constitution, citizens and democratic institutions.
Homo Digitalis, Vouliwatch and 44 other Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have sent an open letter to the Government asking for the immediate drafting and proposal of this draft law. We also asked whether members of the CSOs would be included in the legislative process.
You can read the letter and more information here.
The Glass Room Misinformation Edition exhibition that we are co-organizing at the National Library of Greece has just started
The Glassroom Misinformation Edition exhibition that we are organizing at the National Library of Greece opened to the public today.
Visit it daily until Sunday 27 November and come and meet the teams of Homo Digitalis, Ditital Detox Experience and Open Lab Athens!
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Entrance: completely free
Homo Digitalis with Triple Representation at the Internet Governance Forum Greece 2022
Tomorrow Saturday and the day after Sunday we will be at the Internet Governance Forum Greece at OTEAcademy – the conference starts tomorrow at 10:00!
Book your place or register to attend online here.
-Stefanos Vitoratos moderates the panel “Information as Power”.
-Elpida Vamvaka participates on Sunday in the panel “The Power of Policy Making” moderated by Vassilis Vassilopoulos on internet governance and the voice of citizens in emerging governance models.
-Alexandra Giannopoulou is part of the panel “Financial Power”, on decentralised finance.