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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: Interventions To Address Technology-Facilitated Viol
 ence in\n   Democracy\n   When: Saturday\, Aug 12\, 13:30 - 14:20 PDT\n   
 Where: Caesars Forum - Academy - 415-418 - Voting Village - [1]Map\n   Spe
 akers:Eric Davis\,Hallie Stern\,Omri Preiss\,Theodora Skeadas\n\n   Speake
 rBio:Eric Davis\n   Eric Davis has safeguarded brands\, platforms\, and bi
 llions of users\n   from bad ads\, bad apps\, and other machinations of ma
 lefactors across\n   global policy\, product\, and engineering functions. 
 A frequent\n   consultant and advisor across civic and private sectors on 
 Trust &\n   Safety\, Privacy\, and Security issues\, Eric is a founding ad
 visor to\n   the Trust & Safety Professional Association\, and a member of
  the\n   Integrity Institute’s Elections Integrity Working Group\, which
 \n   publishes a series of best practices and resources guides for tech\n 
   platforms contending with disinformation and other issues impacting\n   
 elections integrity. Previously\, Eric was the former Chief Privacy and\n 
   Policy Officer and global trust & safety lead at Bigo\, a live\n   strea
 ming and short form video social media platform with over 200M\n   users g
 lobally. Prior to Bigo\, he was Senior Director for Product\n   Management
  at Lifelock (acquired by Symantec)\, prototyping new\n   consumer product
 s\, leading AppSec\, and leading product strategy for\n   GDPR and other p
 rivacy regulations globally. Prior to Symantec\, Eric\n   spent 13 years a
 t Google\, where he founded Google’s first Trust &\n   Safety team\, Ant
 i-Malvertising program\, and the Android Security\n   Operations and Intel
  team in addition to his other product policy and\n   public policy leader
 ship roles. Earlier in his career\, he was the\n   charter International P
 roduct Manager for Trust & Safety at eBay.\n   Twitter: [2]@ericdavis\n\n 
   SpeakerBio:Hallie Stern\n   Hallie Stern is the Founder and Director of 
 Digital Rapid Response and\n   Information Strategy for Mad Mirror Media\,
  a digital identity and\n   technology consultancy\, where she conducts re
 search & development\n   initiatives\, teaches courses on disinformation a
 nd influence\, and\n   investigates anomalies in ad-tech ecosystems and al
 gorithms for her\n   cross-sector\, cross-industry clients. She also works
  with the Disarm\n   Foundation to develop tools and tandards for mitigati
 ng online harm\n   related to disinformation and is a member of the Integr
 ity Institute.\n   She holds an M.S. from NYU in Global Security\, Conflic
 t\, and\n   Cybercrime\, where she focused on The Human Side of Cyber Conf
 lict\,\n   with practicums and fellowships at The Global Disinformation In
 dex\,\n   UMD START\, the Dept of State\, and the Department of Homeland S
 ecurity.\n   Additional awards include The David L. Boren National Securit
 y\n   Fellowship. Prior to her studies\, Hallie spent a year exploring\n  
  digital communication and data surveillance in Africa\, the\n   Mediterra
 nean\, and South East Asia.\n\n   SpeakerBio:Omri Preiss\n   Omri Preiss i
 s a co-founder and managing director of Alliance4Europe\,\n   working to a
 ctivate citizens towards a more democratic and sustainable\n   Europe. Omr
 i is based in Brussels\, and has worked in EU affairs\,\n   particularly o
 n human rights\, democracy\, and sustainability issues.\n   Twitter: [3]@O
 mriPreiss\n\n   SpeakerBio:Theodora Skeadas\n   Theodora Skeadas works ful
 l-time as the Deputy Director of Strategy\n   for the Massachusetts Execut
 ive Office of Technology Services and\n   Security and part-time as a cons
 ultant on digital safety issues.\n   Previously\, she worked at Twitter\, 
 where she supported Twitter’s\n   global elections work and managed the 
 Trust and Safety Council\, and\n   Booz Allen Hamilton\, where she support
 ed digital listening efforts\n   around elections. In her political work\,
  she ran for Cambridge City\n   Council in 2021\, she managed an MA Lieute
 nant Governor’s campaign\n   for Jimmy Tingle in 2018\, and she managed 
 a successful Cambridge City\n   Council campaign for Sumbul Siddiqui in 20
 17.\n   Twitter: [4]@theodoraskeadas\n\n   Description:\n   Technology com
 panies with social media platforms have the potential to\n   be a powerful
  ally in civil society’s work to build an open\, free\,\n   and democrat
 ic Internet. They have the ability to provide safe and\n   accessible mech
 anisms for all people to participate in democracy\,\n   especially in clos
 ed information spaces. Continued\, active engagement\n   with technology c
 ompanies is required to properly convey the stories\n   and experiences of
  democratic activists. Online violence and cyber\n   threats against women
  in politics and public life (OVAW-P) poses a\n   deepening challenge to d
 emocracy\, serving as a key tool of\n   illiberalism and democratic backsl
 iding across the globe. OVAW-P\n   encompasses all forms of aggression\, c
 oercion\, and intimidation\n   seeking to exclude women from politics simp
 ly because they are women.\n   This online behavior seeks to achieve polit
 ical outcomes: targeting\n   individual women to harm them or drive them o
 ut of public life\, while\n   also sending a message that women in general
  should not be involved in\n   politics. This online violence has a chilli
 ng effect on the political\n   ambitions and engagement of women and girls
 \, decreasing their presence\n   and agency in politics and public life. S
 topping gender-based attacks\n   online is a solvable problem\, and it is 
 the fastest and clearest\n   investment toward building an internet that e
 nables everyone to be\n   politically engaged. To address this issue\, the
  National Democratic\n   Institute developed a set of solutions-based inte
 rventions for\n   technology platforms to end online violence against wome
 n in politics\n   and public life. The interventions were developed in col
 laboration\n   with a global network of women survivors. In order to more\
 n   successfully advocate for the implementation of these interventions\,\
 n   research and advocacy efforts are needed to demonstrate the power and\
 n   profitability of providing a safe space for women to politically\n   e
 ngage online. \n   '\n\n   1. #CaesarsAcademyBR\n   2. https://twitter.co
 m/ericdavis\n   3. https://twitter.com/OmriPreiss\n   4. https://twitter.c
 om/theodoraskeadas\n\n\n
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LOCATION:VMV - Caesars Forum - Academy - 415-418 - Voting Village
SUMMARY:Interventions To Address Technology-Facilitated Violence in Democra
 cy
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