Monthly Digest: December 2020

Highlights from 2020

For this last monthly digest of 2020, we would like to take a moment to share a curation of articles and stories from our community activities over the year. This month-by-month compilation summarizes topics ranging from privacy, online safety to freedom of expression among others.

January

• Report by Unwanted Witness

February

• Supercharge your advocacy events with this Digital Advocacy Toolkit from Pollicy
• Recap of the Digital Security Conference by Defenders Protection Initiative (DPI) #DigiSecCon2020

March

• Communities of Practice (CoPs) workshop
• Pollicy report on impact of "lugambo" (gossip) tax

April

• WhatsApp discussions started as an alternative to offline events
• HRV tracking in time of COVID

May

• Smart development hack winner: Digital Enquirer Kit
• SRI webinar: Human Rights and COVID19: Assessing lawyers’ response to the use of ICT in the Courts of Law
• GDDF (ICT4D online conference)

June

• New team members , Engagement Leads on the ground: Read more in the blogpost
• No to racism, no to tribalism
  • https://twitter.com/dhrlab/status/1272483995016663040
  • https://digitalhumanrightslab.org/blog/black-lives-matter-perspectives-dhrlab-community/

July

• Website launch
• Podcast launch, all episodes here
• Human centered design training by Design Without Boarders (DwB)
• Human Rights Violations Tracking in times of crisis
• Kuchutimes: Issue 5

August

• Pride Month
  • https://digitalhumanrightslab.org/blog/we-are-powerful-because-we-have-survived/
  • https://digitalhumanrightslab.org/blog/art-pride-and-pandemic-celebrating-unity-uganda/
• How to avoidposting fake news
• Innovations to curb GBV

September

• #ChildSafetyOnline campaign by Encrypt Uganda
• Most read articleof all published ones 2020 by Sandra Aceng
• Pollicy remote working toolkit
• Gole Andrew went on Security on Wheels tour to support HRDs around rural areas watch the video
• Unwanted Witness Privacy Symposium 2020 “Data and Democracy: Opportunities and Challenges to HR in UG watch the video

October

• New Community of Practice: ICT4Advocacy ICT4Advocacy
• Launch of Human Rights Violations tracker app by SRI
  • https://humanrightsviolations.app
• First DHRLab team lunch in Kampala

November

• Recap of #WomensRightsOnline campaign
• IGF2020: Data to Inclusion: Building datasets in African Languages
• #BeOnlineBeSmart campaign during for the CyberSecurity awareness month
• Launch of theProject pages on DHRLab Website
• UnwantedWitness introduced the Privacy Scorecard for more online privacy
• Start of the first round of the DHRLab innovation program implemented by StartHubAfrica

December

• Recap of #SaveTheMessengerUG Campaign
• Invisible Scars report by Herbert Ayesiga
• DHRLab Grant writing toolkit
• Webinar on advocacy work during COVID
• We published alist of emergency contacts for Human Rights Defenders

Now as we look ahead to the new year, we are grateful to our community for shining a light on issues faced by human rights in the digital age, and offering new possibilities. Thank you for joining us as we take one last look back before waving 2020 goodbye.

If you have an activity, article or up-coming event that you would like to share with the DHRLab Community, please email dhrlab@futurechallenges.org / info@dhrlab.org