This course offers an introduction to internet shutdowns, including an overview of the shutdown problem and examples of different ways governments shut down the internet and other communications channels. It will examine how internet shutdowns exacerbate human rights abuses and interfere with democratic processes. The course looks into who is fighting back and multi-stakeholder advocacy strategies used by the global #KeepItOn coalition to end internet shutdowns.

Introduction to Internet Shutdowns

Advocating and Campaigning Against Internet Shutdowns

#KeepItOn Campaign Manager, Access Now

Felicia Anthonio

@FelAnthonio

Introduction to the course

The facts on internet shutdowns

How internet shutdowns harm human rights?

Quiz - The basics of internet shutdowns

History of internet shutdowns - From Egypt to Myanmar

Defining internet shutdowns (#KeepItOn definition)

Technical means to shutdown the internet

Quiz - Am I experiencing an internet shutdown

What are internet shutdowns?

Why internet shutdowns are a barrier to elections

Civil unrest, protests and shutdowns

What activists need to know

Case study - Susan Mwape, Common Cause Zambia Case study

Quiz - activity

Cuba Case Study - Norges Rodríguez, Yucabyte

Internet shutdowns and democracy

Tips for planning for shutdowns during elections and civil unrest

About the #KeepItOn Coalition

Internet shutdown monitoring tools

Liaising with national and International institutions over shutdowns

Why the private sector matters

Advocacy and internet shutdowns

Wrap up video

Course survey

Conclusion

Access Now

Governments across the world are radically changing policies and infrastructure, in the hope of enabling economic opportunity and attracting international investment, securing their societies, and strengthening institutions. Innovations in policies, business models, and technologies enable governments to collect ever more data about people. New systems process data on large scales, generating intelligence on individuals, groups, markets, and societies. Consequently, researchers require new understandings around law, technology, the value of data, and the risks to rights of individuals and groups.

The Risks of Data-Intensive Systems

Melissa Bryant

@mell_bryant

Researching Privacy

Right to Privacy: Introduction and Principles

Right to Privacy: Data and Surveillance

Privacy International

@privacyint

Introduction to course

Introduction to data-intensive systems

Privacy and the post-Data Revolution

Data and ID systems

The Privacy Lens

Why this course?

What is Data?

The rise of data-driven systems

Quiz

Following the data

Policy options and practice

Systems

Case-study: data breaches in elections

Actors, participants and  protections

Types of interventions

Activity

Thinking strategically as we look towards solutions

Data Exploitation and the Future of  Privacy

A little taste into the future of data

Surveillance technologies, the role of global industry, and data-intensive systems
are some of the most pressing privacy issues affecting researchers and advocates today. This course acts as a guide for researchers, and will provide advice on how to approach some of these issues around the world. Whether you’re new to research, or an experienced researcher, the advice and techniques taught in this course will benefit you as you research themes in privacy.

Dr. Tom Fisher

@TomSamaki

Introduction

Designing research

Developing your research questions

Quiz - Designing Research

Designing Research

Advanced open source research methods

Open Source online methods

Interview tips

Research methods

Right of reply

Quiz: Right of Reply

Risk and Right of Reply

An introduction to the principles that underpin the right to privacy, how important it is in our daily lives and the work that is being done internationally to protect the right by civil society organisations.

Matthew Rice

Importance of Privacy

Introduction to Privacy

International Instruments

Quiz: International Instruments

How do protections vary around the world?

Quiz: Communications surveillance

Data Protection

The Future

What is Data Protection Law?

Data Protection: Lessons from around the world

Data Protection Authorities: South Africa's long wait

Quiz: South Africa v OECD Principles

Data protection authorities: Philippines new body

Quiz: Data Protection Case Studies

What does Communications Surveillance look like?

Case Study: #PYRAWEBS Campaign

Domestic and international Institutions

Quiz: Institutions and their locations

Technology Protections

Technology Protections: Case Studies

Communications Surveillance

Want to know why people keep chatting about metadata? Or why your phone is head over heels attracted to attaching to a surveillance device called an IMSI Catcher? Then this course is for you.

Data and Surveillance

Metadata: Defined and Explained

How is data generated and stored?

How is data communicated?

Quiz: Metadata vs Content

Quiz: IMEI and IMSI

Defining Data

Threats to the right to privacy: Key concepts

Who are the actors?

Network Surveillance

Case study: Macedonia - Society on tap

Quiz: Network Surveillance

Actors and network surveillance

Tactical Surveillance: Surveillance your phone loves to connect to

How your device can become a spy

Quiz: Tactical Surveillance - True or False?

Case study: Intrusion Technology - Their Eyes on Me

Quiz: Case Study

Tactical surveillance

Successful advocacy strategists set goals. Donors demand them. But not all goals are equal in getting you where you want to be. Improve your effectiveness by learning the different types of goals and how to make them SMART with this course by the digital media and advocacy experts at Social Media Exchange.

Developing SMART Goals for Successful Strategies

Social media strategy on a shoestring (Part 1)

Jessica Dheere

@jessdheere

Introduction to the Course

Strategic Building Blocks: Goals and Objectives

Relating Goals and Objectives: Visions and Missions

What is a goal?

Making Goals Achievable

Setting Goals as a Group

Cascading Goals and Objectives

Setting Clear Goals Now Makes Everything Downstream Easier

Goal setting in Life and Advocacy

What is a SMART Goal?

Defining SMART Goals

Developing Specific Goals

Developing Measurable Goals

Quiz: Measurable Goal

Developing Attainable Goals

Developing Relevant Goals

Case Study: UN Video

Quiz: UN Video

Developing relevant goals part 2

Developing Time-Bound Goals

Examples of SMART goals

SMART Goals

Flip Your Perspective

What are Your Expected Outputs and Outcomes?

What are Your Indicators and What Do They Tell You?

Quiz: Indicators

Monitoring and Measuring SMART Goals

Mamnou3! Case Study

Quiz: Mamnou3!

Case Study

Developing your own SMART Goals

Turn Your SMART Goal into a SMART Strategy

Develop Your Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

Get SMART!

Course Wrap Up

Course Wrap-up

SMEX

Courses

The Risks of Data-Intensive Systems

The Risks of Data-Intensive Systems

Researching Privacy

Researching Privacy

Right to Privacy: Introduction and Principles

Right to Privacy: Introduction and Principles

Right to Privacy: Data and Surveillance

Right to Privacy: Data and Surveillance

Developing SMART Goals for Successful Strategies

Developing SMART Goals for Successful Strategies