23/03/2024
📢 It's in THREE WEEKS from now
🔊 Blockchain for Human Rights Workshop and Panel Discussions
📅 12 April 2024
⏲ 18:00 CET (6:00 PM)
📍 Impact Hub Zürich, Viaduktstrasse 93, Bogen D, 8005 Zürich
📌 📰 The updated 23 March 2024 brochure is out! Scan the QR Code
Join us for this exciting event and the launch of the Blockchain for Human Rights Partnership. This is in partnership with Apatride Network (led by Aleksejs Ivashuk), Save My Identity Global (María-Gabriela Sarmiento, cofounder and vice-president), and Coalición por Venezuela (presided by Ana Maria DiezI, and represented at the event by Nancy Arellano Suárez, vice-president), with the support of Urbanthinktank_next (led by Prof. Chair of Architecture and Urban Design ETH, Prof. Hubert Klumpner) and the sponsorship of the Lateinamerika-Zentrum Zürich at the University of Zurich, the Impact Hub Zürich, the Österreichisches Kulturforum (ÖKF) and the L200 / ETHZ.
There will be two Panel discussions. The first panel is composed by participants attending the event in Zürich (five). The second panel is composed b participants attending the event online (six).
It is a great honor to share the participants joining in person to open the first panel discussion moderated by me (Maria-Gabriela Sarmiento):
- Prof. Dr. Manfred Nowak, Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights (Venice, Italy).
- Lic. iur. Lea Hungerbühler, LL.M., founder and president of AsyLex
- Prof. Dr. Tim Weingärtner specialized in Blockchain and Smart Contracts of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology and member of digitalswitzerland,
- Dr. Emrys Schoemaker, Senior Researcher and Advisor on DigitalID, digital transformation.
The conclusions of the discussions of the first panel will be presented by Prof. Dr. Christine Kaufmann.
I am also very excited to present the second Panel discussion moderated by Mercedes Rodriguez Símon with participants joining online 💻:
- Yodahe A. Zemichael, Executive Director, National Digital ID Ethiopia,
- Dr. José-María Arraiza, legal identity and human rights specialist (technology risks)
- Marianne Díaz Hernández, running the Digital ID project at AccessNow,
- Mercedes Rodriguez Simon, founder of Ethereum Venezuela,
- Noor Muhammad, founder in charge of the Rohingya Project, and
- Trevor Butterworth, co-founder, vice-president, Communications and Governance of Indicio (Might participate LIVE!)
Stay tuned. 📲 👩💻
