Privacy is Global: Creative Storytelling for Data Protection Advocacy
“What if there was a mythical monster that sucked our biodata instead of our blood?” “Can you imagine the CEO’s reaction when he realised the whole country’s personal data was stolen from his company’s databases?” “What if we could send messages back in time and warn ourselves about the dangers of losing our privacy?”
Hosted by Internews & the Heinrich Böll Foundation
“What if there was a mythical monster that sucked our biodata instead of our blood?” “Can you imagine the CEO’s reaction when he realised the whole country’s personal data was stolen from his company’s databases?” “What if we could send messages back in time and warn ourselves about the dangers of losing our privacy?”
These are some of the questions that emerged when they asked teams of fiction writers, activists, lawyers, comic book artists, comedians, audio engineers, and illustrators to think about how they could get more people interested in data privacy and digital rights.
Over the past 6 months, Internews’ ‘ADAPT’ Project, in collaboration with the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Internet Bolivia, Coding Rights, Paradigm Initiative, and Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo have produced a series of speculative audio fictions. These stories are meant to entertain, inspire, amaze, educate, and activate – and thye hope that they let listeners experience the urgency of data privacy as a basic civil right.
Internews & the Heinrich Böll Foundation invite you to attend their launch event for these thought-provoking projects. They’ll play clips from each of the stories and discuss the policy issues they’re exploring. We will also talk about how and why they decided to work with fiction to communicate about data policy challenges. Finally, they’ll ask artists and creatives new to digital rights issues what they learned from collaborating with activists, and talk through some of the challenges they faced along the way.
When: Friday September 30, 10:00 EDT-11:30 EDT/ 14:00-15:30 UTC