Head Policy and Advocacy @GlobalPartnersD Lawyer U. de Ch. Master in Law&Tech, UC Berkeley. Alumni BKC for Internet & Society, Harvard U. Mama deseante
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The Road to WSIS+20: Key Country Perspectives in the Twenty-Year Review of the World Summit on the Information Society – Global Partners Digital 📌Just released! 📢Essential to support GS engagement providing insight into positions and priorities 🗺️ gp-digital.org/publication/t…
Just started! Come join us 🤗
Join @mariapazcanales who is sharing her insights today during a Global Dialogue with Civil Society on the @UNDP Human Development Report 2025.
This year's report focuses on the impact of AI on human development. #HDR2025
Starting soon! Not miss if you are around #IGF
17:30–18:30 CEST | Online Safety Standards and Regulation: Toward Coherent, Rights-Based Approaches | @mariapazcanales speaks in this side event hosted by DTSP and the Irish Online Safety Regulator.
As we are heading to IGF next week check some food for thought we offer to feed into the convos will happen there!
WSIS+20 Will Decide the IGF’s Fate—Are We Ready?
Our new Digest is out ahead of #IGF2025 next week.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/gp-digital/a-five…
An honor to be speaking tomorrow on behalf of @GlobPartnersD 👇🏼
Tomorrow, @mariapazcanales will be will be speaking @UNHumanRights Side Event HRC59: Advancing Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, organised by @WGBizHRs and the B-Tech Project.
📅 20 June 25
⏰13:00-14:00 CEST
👇To register
We launched officially very recently but to keep up with this ralentless timeline we have been working with partners for a while now supporting National WS and their research. Looking forward to share findings while we head IGF. Stay tuned 📣
@theGNI and GPD have launched a new project to support civil society engagement in the WSIS+20 Review. Funded by the ICANN Grant Program, the initiative brings multistakeholder dialogue to the forefront of global digital governance.
gp-digital.org/news/shaping-…
Maria Paz Canales retweeted
GPD, @accessnow, @Karisma and @tamafa11 of @epicenter_works publish an open letter expressing our concerns regarding the state of the draft Rules of Procedure of the Conference of State Parties to the UN Cybercrime Convention in terms of it weak procedures for monitoring, oversight, accreditation and engagement by non-governmental actors
Read: gp-digital.org/open-letter-o…
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Tomorrow (9 Apr), our co-Head of Policy and Advocacy @MPaz_online will be in Geneva to discuss "Data and AI Governance in Human Rights-Sensitive Contexts" at a side event of the 28th meeting of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD): unctad.org/meeting/28th-cstd…
@UNCTAD
Our outlook for this year! 👇🏼
For human rights defenders working on digital policy, 2024 was a challenging year—marked by a sharp turn to multilateralism, amid technological & geopolitical shifts.
We asked the GPD team what they expect from the field in 2025. Here's what they said: gp-digital.org/2025-a-stress…
Maria Paz Canales retweeted
A cross-community statement from civil society, the private sector and technical community on WSIS, the IGF and the GDC.
Read it here: gp-digital.org/cross-communi…
Maria Paz Canales retweeted
For human rights defenders working on digital policy, 2024 was a challenging year—marked by a sharp turn to multilateralism, amid technological & geopolitical shifts.
We asked the GPD team what they expect from the field in 2025. Here's what they said: gp-digital.org/2025-a-stress…
Maria Paz Canales retweeted
WEBCAST NOV 19 - Disinformation, Information Integrity, and International Cooperation #disinformation #informationintegrity @guyberger @MPaz_online @achdujeh @wjdrake @Elinoam @Columbia_Biz isoc.live/18570
Maria Paz Canales retweeted
The outcomes of WTSA-24 will shape the next 4 years of @ITU work on technical standards, which could have wide impacts on the preservation of an open, interoperable and secure Internet. Here’s what’s at stake for human rights: gp-digital.org/whats-at-stak… #ITUWTSA
Maria Paz Canales retweeted
We're pleased to hear @DutchMFA present the @FO_Coalition's joint statement on technical standards and human rights bit.ly/48k8EkH at WTSA-24 and reaffirm Members' commitments to developing technical standards in a rights-respecting manner.
Maria Paz Canales retweeted
Next week we'll be in Delhi for WTSA-24, which will shape the next 4 years of @ITU's work on technical standards. Here’s what’s at stake for human rights & what we and other CSOs are focusing on: gp-digital.org/whats-at-stak… #ITUWTSA
@KICTANet @DataPrivacyBr @ParadigmHQ @FMA_PH
We followed the whole process and we hope to continue to contribute in shaping the implementation of the proposed mechanisms with our critical perspectives
The Final Report of the UN's HLAB-AI was published earlier this month—concluding a yearlong process to provide analysis & recommendations on global AI governance.
Read our thoughts here: gp-digital.org/news/the-fina…
Maria Paz Canales retweeted
The UN Cybercrime Convention has been agreed. Where do we go from here? Some thoughts on next steps & lessons learned for civil society in a new blog by @elmcdonald94, @MPaz_online and Ian Barber.
gp-digital.org/the-un-cyberc…
Come to speak with the drafters of our most recent research! Register here👇🏼
On Mon 2 Sept, join us @ChathamHouse for the launch of our report w/ @article19wafric on the impacts of cybercrime legislation & other regulations on expression in Africa, the Middle East & Türkiye.
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Report: gp-digital.org/publication/a…
@article19org
Come to speak with the drafters of our most recent research! Register here👇🏼
Regulatory frameworks in the AMET region can pose significant risks to online expression. Join us on Monday 2 September at Chatham House for the launch of our joint report with @article19wafric to discuss the findings: forms.gle/iy1LPwx52TQ1fNeb7
Despite the huge efforts from civil society the UN Cibercrime Convention was agreed yesterday. I thank all the hard work collectively carried out during two years to improve HR protections even with a rather disappointing result. 🙏🏻 to my @GlobalPartnersD team Ian & @elmcdonald94