Beyond Sessions x MDRAI: Designing for human-rights
Guests from MDRAI faculty:
Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher, artist and online harassment expert. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of technology’s impact in society, interface design, artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning, user research, designing for public good, and solving difficult communication problems.
As a designer and researcher, she has worked with Facebook, Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, the Mozilla Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eyebeam, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Open Technology Fund and the Knight Foundation. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA PS1, LABoral, Ars Electronica, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Slate, Quartz, Wired, as well as others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Leandro Ucciferri is the Engagement Lead for Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) within our Digital Transformation. He focuses on expanding collaboration with and support for civil society organizations around the world, leading efforts to adapt the RDR and Digital Inclusion’s benchmarking methodologies, and strengthening civil society coalitions built around the data produced by the benchmarks under the Digital Transformation. Leandro is a lawyer and digital rights advocate with a decade of experience working in the technology policy space.
Prior to joining WBA, Leandro was the Global Partnerships Manager at Ranking Digital Rights, where he fostered breakthrough research projects to study local and regional digital services and telecom operators in the Majority World. Before joining RDR, Leandro was a researcher and project officer at the Association for Civil Rights (ADC, in Spanish), a non-profit and independent NGO, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At ADC, Leandro managed research projects and advocacy campaigns focused on the right to privacy in the digital age. He has published reports covering issues such as biometrics, encryption, surveillance, cybersecurity, financial technologies, and digital identity. He has participated as a speaker in international events and multilateral fora including at the United Nations, the Organization of American States (OAS), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), RightsCon, and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
Q&A will be moderated by Andres Colmenares, Director of MDRAI at Elisava and co-founder of IAM
Beyond Sessions x MDRAI
In these event series hosted by Elisava + IAM, we explore the co-evolution of design, AI and culture through dialogues, lectures, screenings and open discussions featuring faculty members and collaborators from a broad range of fields and cultural backgrounds.
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