We participated at DFF’s Annual Strategy Meeting (ASM24)
We participated at DFF’s Annual Strategy Meeting (ASM24)
Two weeks ago, Homo Digitalis’ President, Elpida Vamvaka, was in Berlin at Digital Freedom Fund’s Annual Strategy Meeting (ASM24). We are grateful for the chance to engage in enriching dialogue with such inspiring fellow digital rights defenders working to propel human rights forward!
The meeting’s goals were to share meaningful exchanges and updates on digital rights topics, explore new opportunities to organise and collaborate at the intersection of racial, social, economic and environmental justice, to centre care, to safeguard well-being and to build resilience.
The meeting featured peer-driven highlights from DFF’s network, discussions mapping the 2024 landscape and beyond on digital rights issues, knowledge and skill sharing sessions, and a powerful panel on war crimes & digital rights. Stay tuned for the video coming soon!
Topics ranged from queer & trans*, labour, disability, environmental, welfare, prisoners’, children’s and migrants’ rights, to spyware, surveillance, digital policing, platform accountability, movement lawyering, organising for digital justice, and many more.
We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the organizers for inviting us, as well as to all individual participants and represented organisations for making this year’s Annual Strategy Meeting a success.
Elpida Vamvaka of Homo Digitalis at the Multistakeholder Committee of the Digital World Summit Greece
Elpida Vamvaka of Homo Digitalis is a member of the Multistakeholder Committee of Digital World Summit Greece as an expert in cybersecurity and privacy.
Elpida Vamvaka is a Lawyer, co-founding member and President of Homo Digitalis, to which she volunteers her services, while she is currently working as Head Legal Counsel at Team Blue Greece, Papaki/Tophost which are two of the largest technology companies and Digital Enablers in Greece.
She has led data protection compliance projects in Public and Private Entities. In addition, he has been employed as a legal advisor to the Athena Research Centre in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies.
Our new action before the European Data Protection Board on its case regardin Meta's Pay Or Okay model
Last Thursday, 7 March, together with European Digital Rights and other important civil society organisations, we submitted an Open Letter to the European Data Protection Board (EDPS) on Meta’s #PayOrOkay model.
We call on the EDPS in its opinion to condemn these commercial subscription models that allow those with the money to pay for their privacy and those without to be at the mercy of the voracious data collection practices of big tech companies.
You can read our letter in detail here. This is Homo Digitalis’ second relevant action against Meta’s Pay or Okay model on a pan-European level.
Our joint action on the Digital Euro & Right to Cash legislative initiatives
At the end of February, together with epicenter.works, European Digital Rights and other important civil society organisations, we sent a letter to the MEPs who are the rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs of the DigitalEuro and Right To Cash packages.
Despite the fact that both proposed pieces of legislation are part of the same legislative package, we see that the relevant negotiations are moving at two different speeds!
With the European elections approaching and uncertainty prevailing regarding the proposed legislation on the Digital Euro and the challenges that arise with its technical features, we call on MEPs to separate these two legislative proposals in order to spend the necessary time to solve the problems that have been identified and highlighted by academics, and other experts in the field.
You can view our joint letter here.
Homo Digitalis at the second annual Digital Policy Leadership Summit in Brussels!
Homo Digitalis at the second annual Digital Policy Leadership Summit in Brussels!Last weekend, Homo Digitalis participated in the second annual Digital Policy Leadership Summit in Brussels
Over the course of these two days, alongside an amazing group of talented and brilliant individuals, we dove deep into critical conversations and shared our knowledge and experience to cultivate and strengthen new forms of leadership to promote equitable and inclusive digital policy.
We also discussed issues of policy strategizing, including racial justice in AI, and addressing misinformation in the context of elections.
Our group was represented by Eleftherios Chelioudakis. We are grateful to the organizers for the great support that made our participation possible!Read more about the summit and its objectives here.
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits the 3rd Primary School of Nafpaktos
Last week Homo Digitalis hit the road!
In a 1500 km tour, we visited 4 schools in the Peloponnese and Central Greece and talked to more than 600 students and teachers!
On the fourth day, Lamprini Gyftokosta, Alexandra Giannopoulou and Konstantinos Kakavoulis were in Nafpaktos and talked to the students and teachers of the 3rd Primary School of Nafpaktos about cyber bullying
We would like to thank the management and the teachers of the school for the invitation and the warm welcome!
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits a high school in Velo, Corinthia
Last week Homo Digitalis hit the road!
In a 1500 km tour, we visited 4 schools in the Peloponnese and Central Greece and talked to more than 600 students and teachers!
On the third day, Lamprini Gyftokosta and Konstantinos Kakavoulis were in Velo Corinthia and talked to all the students and teachers of the high school about the digital footprint
We would like to thank the management and teachers of the school for the invitation and the warm welcome!
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits the high school in Molai in Laconia
Last week Homo Digitalis hit the road!
In a 1500 km tour, we visited 4 schools in the Peloponnese and Central Greece and talked to more than 600 students and teachers!
On the first day, Lamprini Gyftokosta, Nikoletta Georgakopoulou and Konstantinos Kakavoulis were in Molaos Lakonia and talked to all the students and teachers of the high school about the digital footprint.
We would like to thank the management and teachers of the school for the invitation and the warm welcome!
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits a high school in Tyros Arkadia
Last week Homo Digitalis hit the road!
In a 1500 km tour, we visited 4 schools in the Peloponnese and Central Greece and talked to more than 600 students and teachers!
On the second day, Lamprini Gyftokosta, Nikoletta Georgakopoulou and Konstantinos Kakavoulis were in Tyros Arkadia and talked to all the students and teachers of the high school about the #digitalfootprint
We would like to thank the school’s management and teachers for the invitation and the warm welcome!