Organised by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University, the event was funded by the Canadian Department of National Defence and carried out in partnership with the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, the University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Center, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Canada, the Global Action Again. [...] The conference brought together leading global experts working across the governmental, non- governmental and private sectors to consider the threats and opportunities presented by the digital revolution to the respect for and protection of human rights and democratic values. [...] Organised by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University, the event was funded by the Canadian Department of National Defence and carried out in partnership with the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, the University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Center, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Canada, the Global Action Again. [...] 2 Context and opening remarks: The dystopian direction of the cyber revolution ● Irwin Cotler, Founder and Chair of the Roaul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights ● Jason Munyan, Programme Officer, Office of the Special Advisor to the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Technology “When technology races, the law lags” – Irwin Cotler, Founder and Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. [...] The youthfulness of the internet – with two thirds of users under the age of 35 and half of all users under the age of 25 – melds with this new technology to unleash creativity and question the status quo.
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