1) workshop on "Digital Human Rights and the Elasticity of International Human Rights Treaties" held at King's College London, supported by the European Research Council (ERC)
- Prof Yuval Shany, (3GDR project), explained how digital human rights can be read into existing traditional human rights treaties using interpretative techniques and demonstrated the limits of the elasticity of these treaties.
- Prof Martin Scheinin, the former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, who explored the ways in which the digital realm could be addressed through the "Grammar of Human Rights".
- Dr Raffaela Kunz - making a case for the "Right to Science" as a prime example of the elasticity of international human rights treaties and showing its apparent limitations.
- The workshop concludes with Dr maria varaki’s submission on the right to dignity as a case study – elasticity as a bridge to several time and place in the digital environment.
- To conclude – a discussion from current and former Members of the UN Human Rights Committee (Profs Changrok Soh & Larry Helfer), former UN Special Rapporteurs (Profs Philip Alston, Clement N. Voule etc) and renowned international law academics working on digital human rights, inc Profs Marko Milanović, Steven Ratner and more.
2) "A right to a Human Decision" - 19-20 July 2023, Oxford
In a joint workshop, together with Oxford University's Institute for AI Ethics, a group of leading academics, policy makers and legal councils dicussed papers promoting the need for a new right to a human decision maker.
This workshop is a prelude to future meetings - promoting concratization of either new or ammended digital rights in the legal sphere.
3) Federmann CyberSecurity Research Center annual retreat: July 11, 2024 - Jerusalem
Thursday, July 11th, Members of the Federmann CyberSecurity Research Center from both Mount Scopus and Givat Ram met for our annual retreat We thank: Michal Shur-Ofry, Emi Palmor, Yehuda Afek, Guy Amir, Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero, Elkana Tovey for their amazing lectures.
4) Ethics and politics of AI
The Annual Conference of "Afik in Academia - Forum of Female Professors in Universities"
At the annual conference of "Afik in Academia - Forum of Female Professors in Universities," focused on the theme "From Crisis to Growth," Dr. Tomer Shadmy delivered an inspiring lecture titled "The Ethics and Politics of Artificial Intelligence."
The lecture emphasized the need to develop strategies for adapting contemporary institutions to new technologies and suggested to see this moment in time as an opportunity to reimagine democracy, .accountability, and human rights in data-driven environments
