📢 New Report & Open Letter released today at #RightsCon2025

Report:
📖 Decolonizing Emerging Technology: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Resisting Technology-Facilitated Oppression 🔗 data.opendevelopmentmekong.net/library_reco...

Open Letter Sign-on➡️ knowledge4development.org/decolonizing...

Join us today at #RightsCon2025 for our panel:

Digital Rights Advocacy within Constrained Civil Spaces
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, February 26
🕘 Time: 14:00 - 15:00 PM Taipei Time
📍 Where: Room 101A, Taipei International Convention Center (In-person)
Learn more ➡️www.rightscon.org
#DigitalRights #HumanRights

Recommendations include:
🌏 Indigenous Peoples must be able to govern their own data and knowledge
✅ AI governing systems must shift to #FPIC in development
🌳 GeoAI should be versed in Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sovereignty principles
🗣️ Metadata needs to incorporate Indigenous terminology

“Indigenous Peoples have traditional ecological knowledge maintained for generations. Yet these environmental data & knowledge on ecological processes, landscapes and ecosystems are often excluded, unrecognized or marginalised within discussions of environmental data and governance," - Pyrou Chung

🧵Today at #RightsCon2025, Pyrou Chung joined partners on the panel, "Navigating #GeoAI for #ClimateAction"

The discussion explored strategies, risk mitigation, collaborative approaches & issues impacting #DataSovereignty

#RightsCon #DigitalRights #IndigenousRights

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