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One week left to apply for CEU’s summer institute on internet governance, civil society and communication policy advocacy
Our 2015 summer institute will take place from 28 June to 4 July at Central European University in Budapest. Application deadline is 15 March.
Workshops will explore how activists are campaigning for an open internet, freedom of expression norms in different contexts around the world, the current state of play surrounding internet governance, and the potential of technology and online tools for mobilizing and organizing constituencies and for enhancing the security and privacy of advocates. This year, special attention will be paid to the relationship between the policies of internet companies, violent extremism, surveillance, filtering, and content take down requests by governments.
Organized by the Center for Media, Data and Society at the School of Public Policy, Central European University with the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS), Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania, the week-long intensive is designed to help researchers, activists, policy makers, lawyers and advocates gain new insights into the complex relationship between technology, free expression, and policy that lie at the heart of debates between global security and human rights.
Past faculty have come from: Witness, Human Rights Watch, OSCE, Privacy International, Center for Democracy and Technology, Open Society Foundation, Tactical Technology Collective, Global Voices Online, Center for Internet and Society, Hivos, International Center for Policy Advocacy, Internews, Creative Commons, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Transparency International, Open Technology Initiative, Tor Project, Berkman Center.
Date and place of the summer school: 28 June - 4 July, 2015, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Application deadline is 15 March, 2015.