Anita Gurumurthy at the IGF 2016 Main Session: Connecting Human Rights
Channel: IT for Change
Date: 2016-12-29

Anita Gurumurthy, Executive Director, IT for Change was a Panelist at the IGF 2016 Main Session, Connecting Human Rights -- Emphasising Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for the Internet. In her intervention, she stressed the critical imperative to move beyond the binary of the online and offline, in our imaginary of rights. Human rights violations occur in the very real, hybrid interstices where embedded and embodied life meet the network.  Therefore,the idea of rights has to be recalibrated to a different sociality in the digital age. This requires us to deal with key challenges such as the loss of privacy in the network-data complex, the lack of international jurisprudence to address transnational human rights issues in the digital age, and the emergence of a neo-colonial development datacracy.