Talks

Over the last years I presented my work at the following conferences and events:

• Global Gathering 2023 (Estoril, Portugal), Participated in the 3-day Summit and shared OONI’s work as part of sessions (15th-17th September 2023)
• Open Culture Foundation Internet Freedom Meetup webinar, Presented OONI’s Measurement Aggregation Toolkit (MAT) as part of the Open Culture Foundation’s (OCF) monthly Internet Freedom Meetup webinar for civil society in Taiwan (23rd August 2023)
• Chaos Communication Camp 2023 (Mildenberg, Germany), Session: “OONI Hack Session: Measuring Internet Censorship” (18th August 2023)
• HotPETs 2023 (Lausanne, Switzerland), Keynote speaker on “The Power of Community Participation in Shaping Digital Rights Tech” (14th July 2023)
• DSAConnectCon 2023 (Johannesburg, South Africa), Facilitated OONI workshops as part of a 2-day community convening organised by Digital Society of Africa (28th-29th June 2023)
• RightsCon 2023 (Costa Rica), Sessions: “Learn to investigate internet shutdowns through an Iran 2022 case study” (7th June 2023) and “Investigating Internet shutdowns through open data” (8th June 2023)
• EU High Level Group on Internet Governance (HLIG) open stakeholder session (online), Presented research findings to EU Member States (26th April 2023)
• Roskomsvoboda Privacy Day 2023 event (online), Speaker in Roskomsvoboda’s Privacy Day 2023 event, discussing how people in Russia can participate in OONI censorship measurement (27th January 2023)
• Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) India report launch event (online), Speaker on the panel “Error 404 Website Cannot Be Found” (12th January 2023)
• Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2022 (online), Speaker on the panel “Help! The Kill switch is taking away my limited agency” (1st December 2022)
• Tor Project State of the Onion 2022 (online), Presentation of OONI highlights from 2022 (16th November 2022)
• Internet Without Borders (Vilnius, Lithuania), Presentation on using OONI’s Measurement Aggregation Toolkit (MAT) for investigating internet censorship in Russia (10th June 2022)
• RightsCon 2022 (online), Sessions: “Building capacity to document and circumvent internet shutdowns” (6th June 2022), “Monitoring internet censorship in South and Southeast Asia” (7th June 2022), “A light in the dark: Learning about internet shutdowns and the #KeepItOn campaign” (9th June 2022)
• Mozilla Twitter Space on Network Outages (online), Presentation of how OONI analyzed Mozilla telemetry to investigate internet shutdowns (5th April 2022)
• Spacemesh Meetup (online), OONI presentation (8th March 2022)
• Conflux Center Virtual Courses 2022, OONI training (“OONI – Practical exercise measuring Internet censorship”) for UN peacekeeping missions as part of an online course (“Technologies and Digital Tools for Peacekeeping and Political Missions: Data, Research, Analysis, & Communication”) organized by Conflux Center (25th January 2022)
• ISOC Community Week 2021 (online), OONI presentation (16th November 2021)
• Swahilipot Hub event for HacktoberFest Mombasa (online), Workshop: “How to measure Internet censorship” (22nd October 2021)
• OPTIMA 2.0 Network Measurement Training (online), Sessions: “Introduction to Network Measurement” and “OONI censorship measurement” (21st & 28th October 2021)
• Bachchao Project test list workshop (online), Workshops: “Introduction to Internet censorship” and “Live demo of new OONI web platform for updating the Citizen Lab test lists” (9th & 10th October 2021)
• Kenya Internet Governance Forum (KIGF) 2021 (online), Pre-event panel session on digital rights issues (21st September 2021)
• Access Now Twitter Space (online), “Global Rise of Internet Shutdowns #KeepItOn” (15th September 2021)
• Access Now webinar (online), “#KeepItOn during an internet shutdown: How to measure, document, and circumvent network interference” (30th July 2021)
• OONI Partner Training: Participants from Asia and the Middle East (online), Training sessions: “Introduction to Internet censorship”, “Using OONI Run to coordinate censorship testing”, “Interpreting OONI data” (5th-7th July 2021)
• OONI Partner Training: Participants from Africa and Latin America (online), Training sessions: “Introduction to Internet censorship”, “Using OONI Run to coordinate censorship testing”, “Interpreting OONI data” (28th-30th June 2021)
• RightsCon 2021 (online), Sessions: “Who are the perpetrators of internet shutdowns? What we documented in 2020 and beyond” (7th June 2021),  “Measuring internet disruptions during elections (and other political events)” (7th June 2021), “Confronting threats from all sides: building the anti-censorship ecosystem” (10th June 2021), “Prepare, prevent, resist: a guide for internet shutdown advocacy strategy and resilience” (11th June 2021)
• TechUp (online), Workshops: “OONI censorship measurement” and “Using OONI Explorer to track censorship events worldwide” (15th May 2021)
• Stockholm Internet Forum 2021 (online), Panel: “#KeepItOn: Governments weaponizing Internet shutdowns” (12th May 2021)
• OutRight Action International webinar (online), “Censored: How LGBTIQ People And Activists Are Threatened By – And Surviving In – Restrictive And Repressive Digital Environments” (24th February 2021)
• State of the Onion 2020 (online), Presentation: “OONI highlights from 2020” (16th November 2020)
• Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2020 (online), OONI presentation as part of IGF Village virtual tour (6th November 2020)
• OPTIMA Internet Shutdown Measurement Training for Advocates in Sub-Saharan Africa (online), Training modules: “Introduction to Network Measurement” and “Detecting Blocking of Websites and Applications” (12th October 2020 to 20th November 2020)
• Arusha Women School of Internet Governance (AruWSIG) 2020 (online), Session: “Measuring internet censorship with OONI Probe” (10th September 2020)
• Kill Switch (online), Podcast: “The Fight to Get Back Online” (17th August 2020)
• RightsCon 2020 (online), Session: “Investigating Internet shutdowns with Open Data” (29th July 2020)
• NetGain Partnership (online), Webinar: “Surging Demand and the Global Internet Infrastructure” (8th July 2020)
• Internet Measurement Village 2020 (online), Session: “OONI: Measuring Internet Censorship” (10th June 2020)
• Internet Freedom Festival (IFF) Glitter Meetup (online), Session: “OONI Probe Desktop launch” (30th April 2020)
• Chaos Communication Camp 2019 (Mildenberg, Germany), Session: “OONI: Measuring Internet Censorship Around the World” (22nd August 2019)
• The Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2019 (Toronto, Canada), Workshop: “Censorship Measurement Campaigns: A decentralized approach to measuring and responding to internet censorship events” (1st August 2019)
• RightsCon 2019 (Tunis, Tunisia), Sessions: “OONI workshop“, “Measuring internet shutdowns“, “Detecting, understanding, and countering censorship of Wikipedia“, “Supporting the KeepItOn campaign with network measurement data“, “OONI Partners Meetup” (11th-14th June 2019)
• Digital Rights & Inclusion Forum (Lagos, Nigeria), Workshop: “Uncovering Censorship Evidence” (23rd April 2019)
• Internet Freedom Festival 2019 (Valencia, Spain), Workshops: “OONI community feedback: Improving censorship measurement research“, “Conducting network measurements in censorship hotspots – lessons from the field“, “Multi-disciplinary teams, journalistic capabilities, and methodological protocols to monitor and investigate internet censorship“, “OONI Partners Meetup” (1st – 5th April 2019)
• Science & Technology Law Institute (Taipei, Taiwan), OONI seminar (2nd November 2018)
• Mozilla Community Space (Taipei, Taiwan), OONI workshop (organized by Taiwan’s Open Culture Foundation), (1st November 2018)
• Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute 2018 (Oxford, UK), Lecture: “Understanding & Measuring Online Censorship” (6th August 2018)
• Chasopys EduSpace (Kiev, Ukraine), Lecture: “Uncovering Evidence of Internet Censorship” (13th July 2018)
• The Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2018 (Toronto, Canada), Workshop: “Making OONI’s censorship data more actionable” (14th June 2018)
• RightsCon 2018 (Toronto, Canada), Panels: “Enforcing Net Neutrality with Evidence Based Policy Making“, “Shedding Light on Internet Blackouts“,  “Defending Minority Voices on a Censored Internet“, “When Repressive Authorities #KeepItOn” (16th-18th May 2018)
• Internet Freedom Festival 2018 (Valencia, Spain), Workshops: “Internet-based information controls and elections” and “Using OONI Explorer” (6th March 2018)
• Internet Policy in Africa: Research Methods Workshop for Advocacy (Kampala, Uganda), Workshop: “Network Measurement Research” (28th February 2018)
• University of Cape Town, Computer Science Department (Cape Town, South Africa), Seminar: “Internet Censorship Measurements” (16th February 2018)
• Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) 2017 (Oslo, Norway), Talk: “Collecting Evidence of Internet Censorship: A Call to Action” (4th November 2017)
• The Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2017 (Toronto, Canada), Sessions: “OONI Partnership Program” & “Contextualizing network measurement data” (12th-14th July 2017)
• OONI Partner Gathering (Toronto, Canada), Organizer (10th & 11th July 2017)
• The ISC Project Global Workshop (Washington D.C., USA), Workshops on OONI (25th & 26th May 2017)
• Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) 2017 (Tirana, Albania), Talk: “Free and Open Source Software for a Free and Open Internet” (14th May 2017)
• International Journalism Festival 2017 (Perugia, Italy), Talk: “Uncovering Internet Censorship“, (7th April 2017)
• RightsCon 2017 (Brussels, Belgium), Workshop: “Collecting evidence of Internet censorship in Southeast Asia and beyond“, (30th March 2017)
• Internet Freedom Festival 2017 (Valencia, Spain), Workshops: “Investigating internet controls with OONI” and “Building Community Resources for Censorship Measurement Research“, (6th-10th March 2017)
• University of Paderborn (Paderborn, Germany), Taught seminar titled: “Surveillance & Basic Digital Security”, (20th-22nd January 2017)
• The Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2016 (Canada, Toronto), Workshop titled: “OONI Partnership Program: Collaborating on the study of internet censorship“, (6th-8th July 2016)
• Personal Democracy Forum (Kiev, Ukraine), Talk titled: “The Politics of Surveillance“, (22nd June 2016)
• 49. Netzpolitischer Abend, C-Base (Berlin, Germany),
  Talk titled: “Surveillance Without Borders: the Snowden Archives, Data Visualizations, and a Call to Action“, (7th June 2016)
• International Journalism Festival 2016 (Perugia, Italy), Lecture titled: “Surveillance Without Borders: The Role of Corporations“, (8th April 2016)
• Transmediale 2016 (Berlin, Germany), Workshop titled: “Tacit Futures #2: Connecting Snowden Archives“, Presentation of “Surveillance Without Borders” (5th February 2016)

• Gaining a Digital Edge: Freedom of Expression (Belgrade, Serbia), Panels titled: “The Promise and Perils of Digital Advertising” and “Data-driven storytelling”, (16^th & 17^th October 2015)

• Chaos Communication Camp 2015 (Mildenberg, Germany), Session: “Trackography” (15th August 2015)

• Create: React Digital (Berlin, Germany), Panel title: “Why we should care and how we can engage in activism in an age of ubiquitous surveillance?”, (19^th June 2015)

• Re:publica 2015 (Berlin, Germany), Lecture titled: “One Account for Everything, Meet your Profile”, (7^th May 2015)

• RightsCon 2015 (Manila, Philippines), Lightning talk: “Trackography: Tracking the Trackers in Southeast Asia”, (25^th March 2015)

• 33. Netzpolitischer Abend, C-Base (Berlin, Germany), Talk titled: “Trackography: Mapping the Internet’s Original Sin”, (4^th February 2015)

• 31^st Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, Germany), Lecture titled: “Trackography: You never read alone”, (29^th December 2014)

• Logan Symposium on Surveillance, Secrecy and Censorship (London, UK), Lecture titled: “Surveillance in India”, (5^th December 2014)

• Annenberg-Oxford Summer Media Policy Institute 2014 (Oxford, UK), Lecture titled: “Surveillance in India” (8^th July 2014)

• Re:publica 2014 (Berlin, Germany), Lecture titled: “The Database Nation, a.k.a India’s State of Surveillance”, (7^th May 2014)

• Global Day Against Mass Surveillance event at the Empros Theatre (Athens, Greece), Talk titled: “Mass surveillance: An invisible threat”, (11th February 2014)

• 30th Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, Germany), Lecture titled: “India’s Surveillance State”,(29th December 2013)

• Heinrich Boell Foundation International Conference titled: “Whatever happened to Privacy?” (Berlin, Germany), Keynote speaker and panel titled: “Suspect Societies”, (6^th December 2013)

• Centre for Internet and Society (Banagalore, India), Talk titled: “Big Democracy: Big Surveillance”, (3^rd December 2013)

• Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India), Panel and talk titled: “Privacy, Surveillance and the UID in a post-Snowden era”, (30^th November 2013)

• Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India), Talk titled: “The Phishing Society: Why ‘Facebook’ is More Dangerous than the Government Spying on You”, (7^th August 2013)

• Consilience 2013 (Bangalore, India), Talk titled: “Cyber Security and Surveillance in India”, (25th May 2013)

• Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India), Talk titled: “The Indian Surveillance State”, (22^nd May 2013)

• National Law School of India (Bangalore, India), Lecture titled: “Cyber Security and Surveillance in India” (6^th May 2013)