What's the Deal With Human Rights and Technical Standards?
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A talk to explore the relationship between standards and human rights and focus on what W3C is doing to support human rights
Add to calendarThe UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report late last year: "Making technical standards work for humanity: New pathways for incorporating international human rights into standards development for digital technologies." Amongst other things, this report referenced the W3C Ethical Web Principles, Privacy Principles, and Code of Conduct as key examples of structural changes in the technical standards community in support of human rights. This talk will seek explore the relationship between technical standards and human rights, and focus on what we're doing in W3C to further the goal of supporting human rights.
Dan Appelquist is Open Source Strategist at Samsung Open Source Group. He is a web & mobile industry veteran and long-time participant and leader in open source and open standards. He is co-chair of the W3C Advisory Board and was previously co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. He has been a member of the OpenSSF TAC and currently co-chairs the Global Cyber Policy working group. He has led OSS efforts at Vodafone, Telefónica, Samsung and the UK Government.