Human Rights and Technology. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

300 Pages·2017·4.4 MB·English

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Mariateresa Garrido V.
Editor

“Human Rights and Technology.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.
Mariateresa Garrido Villareal, editor
ISBN 978-9930-542-00-2
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Acknowledgements
Someone once told me that if you share and idea it would never be yours again
and this book is the best representation of that though. I always have problems
finding articles that explore the linkages between human rights and technology,
and from that need I had the idea. Thanks to the support of the UPEACE Dean
of Academic Affairs, Juan Carlos Sainz-Borgo, and the Head of the International
Law Department, Mihir Kanade, and UPEACE Rector, Francisco Rojas
Aravena, this idea became a project, and thanks to all the people who contributed
in the different stages of this process, it became the book “Human Rights and
Technology. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.
Thanks to the authors for your submissions, for complying with the very tight
deadlines, and for believing that this was the best option to publish your work.
Without your hard work this book would not be published.
Many thanks to the reviewers - who are mentioned below- for helping me with
the difficult task of selecting and improving the content of each article. I deeply
appreciate your hard work and willingness to be part of this project. I cannot
sufficiently express how grateful I am for all your help!
Thanks to my wonderful Editorial Assistants Ana Carolina Paci, Dafne Calderon,
Laurisse Noel, and Sorang Saragih for helping me in the final revision of the
articles; and of course, to the UPEACE professors Ross Ryan, Gal Harmat, and
Manish Thapa, for allowing their participation in the project. Also, thanks to
Glenn Oliva, the designer of the cover.
Thanks to my family and friends for always supporting my ideas, for helping me
to find reviewers, for telling me what I needed to hear when I did not know how
to handle time to finish this project, and for your everlasting love! But above all,
thank you God for giving me the opportunity and the strength to do it.
Mariateresa Garrido Villareal
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List of reviewers
Alonso Muñoz
Amber Macintyre
Aude Mulliez
Brett Goldberg
Celina del Felice
Daniel Salamanca
Daniela Martucci
Diana Ubico
Guillermina Gutnisky
Humprey Sipalla
Indira del Cornelio
Jana Lozanoska
Juan Amaya
Juan Garcia
Luis Araque
Mary-France Vary
Miriam Estrada
Mauricio Garita
Patricia Tarre
Ramiro Gomez
Rhina Cornejo-Hösl
Ross Ryan
Virpi Salojärvi
Zulmaire Gonzalez
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About the Authors:
Andrea Isabel Garrido Villareal: Journalist from Universidad Monteávila
(Magna Cum Laude). Currently, she is General Coordinator at Fundación
Comunicas. She has worked on the promotion of the right to Freedom of
Expression in Venezuela since 2013, and in 2016 she completed the U.S.
International Visitor Leadership Program.
Ankur Sarin: Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad (IIMA). His areas of teaching and research include social policy and
social entrepreneurship. More recently, he has been working as part of an action
research project (www.rterc.in), that seeks to making the Right to Education in
India an instrument not only for increased access to education, but also one that
promotes a more inclusive education system.
Ashish Ranjan: Researcher working at Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad (IIMA). He has done his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and Mechanical
Engineering from NITK Surathkal. At IIM-A, he has been involved in initiating
the action research project “RTE Resource Center”, which tries to understand
the implementation of Right to Education Act by actively participating in the
implementation process. Besides, he has been working on research projects to
understand the access of public provisions like water to the marginalized section
of the society. His research interest lies in Public Policy, Public Sector Reform,
and Change Management.
David Buchbinder: Human rights researcher, activist, and educator with nearly
20 years of experience working in Africa, central Asia and South America. As
project director in the Human Rights Program of Benetech, David has been
working with LGBTI rights organizations in eastern and southern Africa since
2014, focusing on capacity building for human rights documentation, fact-
finding, and advocacy. He has additional experience on capacity building with
human rights organizations from across Africa with the Botswana-based African
Human Rights Consortium. He conducted primary human rights research in
Chad and Sudan for Human Rights Watch and Child Soldiers International.
Deborah Sun Kim: Entrepreneur and consultant based in Seoul, driven by
behavioural economics and social innovation. Her diverse background extends
across both public and private sectors, and she is always seeking opportunities that
cultivate multicultural, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary collaboration for
sustainability. More recently, she has been directing workshops for startups, tech
developers, and educators on leadership, community wellbeing, and activating
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systems change. Deborah holds an MA in Responsible Management from the
UN Mandated University for Peace, an MA in Sustainable Development from
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and is an associate of the award-winning
UnSchool of Disruptive Design’s Network.
Dora Elia Ramos Muñoz: Doctor in Ecology and Sustainable Development
(Ecosur 2000) and Industrial Engineer (ITESM 1989) Author of scientific papers
on technological innovation, women’s work, and leadership in Mexico and
Guatemala. Her research interest is: social consequences of the uses of ICTs,
disasters and social change, women’s work, and urban-rural development.
Juan Pablo Delgado Miranda: B.A. in Law from Universidad Iberoamericana
(2013), graduate student in the UN Mandated University for Peace and graduate
fellow from Georgetown University’s Global Competitiveness Leadership
Program 2016. He worked in the Center for Justice and International Law
(CEJIL), the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the State of Guanajuato
and the Municipal Government of the City of León as Director of Social
Development. Since 2015, he is Cofounder and Director of Amicus DH, a civil
society organization devoted to Human Rights promotion and defense, currently
undertaking an integral defense strategy for the recognition of gender identity in
Guanajuato, México.
Ivory Mills: Law & Science Fellow and dual degree candidate pursuing a PhD
in Media, Technology, and Society and a JD at Northwestern Law. With interests
in both theory and practice, she investigates international and comparative
ICT (information and communication technologies) law and policy from an
organizational and interorganizational perspective. Interdisciplinary in nature,
her work draws upon the technological, economic, legal, social, and cultural
implications of corporate, civil society, and regulatory institutions in the
international system. Ivory holds a B.A. in International Studies from Spelman
College and is a Fellow with the Institute for International Public Policy, Cohort
16.
Kevin Kester: Research Assistant Professor of International & Area Studies in
the John E. Endicott College of International Studies at Woosong University
in Daejeon, Korea. His research interests lie in the sociology and politics of
education with a focus on the international system, social theory, and qualitative
research methods. He teaches courses on peace and conflict studies; modernity,
globalization, and education; and educational sociology.
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Kris Hyesoo Lee: Doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, where she
conducts a sociological study of the transnational mobility through education,
particularly contemporary migration from the West to China. She uses a range
of disciplinary lenses including human geography, sociology, and education
to deepen an understanding on the meaning of globalisation, international and
transnational mobility, and identity and belonging. Prior to undertaking her
doctoral studies, she served various roles in the higher education sector. She
holds a master’s degree in Education from the University of Cambridge, where
she was a member of Wolfson College.
Linda Annala: PhD Candidate at Hanken School of Economics, Finland. Her
research looks into the nexus of equal access to drinking water, sustainable
technology, and public policy in the contexts of Ethiopia and India. Her
theoretical interests lie within corporate citizenship, critical innovation studies,
and post-colonial, de-colonial and transnational theories.
Loughlin Sweeney: Irish historian specialising on elites and communities of
violence in a transnational context. He lectures on modern British political
history and on research methods, and recently completed a PhD thesis on
nationalism and the British Army in Ireland between 1870 and 1925. He is
currently preparing a research project on the development of global norms of
peace-making expertise in the League of Nations mandates, 1919-1939.
Mariateresa Garrido Villareal: Lawyer from Universidad Central de
Venezuela and PhD Candidate at the UN mandated University for Peace. Her
current research is focused on the exercise of the right to freedom of expression
in the digital era, with particular emphasis on the protection of journalists. She
has worked in this field with Transparency International, Espacio Público,
Fundación Comunicas, and UNESCO.
Mihir Kanade (Dr.): Head of the Department of International Law and Human
Rights, and Director of the Human Rights Centre at the UN mandated University
for Peace.
Navdeep Mathur: Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad (IIMA), in Public Systems Group. His research is on the political
foundations of urban governance, business-society relations and the social
anthropology of infrastructure related conflict. He teaches courses on qualitative
research methods, participatory theatre, corporate social irresponsibility, and the
political impact of large corporations on democratic policy processes.
Nathalie Maréchal: Doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for
Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. She is
also a senior research fellow with Ranking Digital Rights.
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Nnenna Ajufo: Law lecturer at Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria. She has
worked with the Anglophone Africa Office of the Coalition for International
Criminal Court in Nigeria. She also worked with an NGO in Aberdeen, United
Kingdom on a role funded by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.
She has written articles on human rights and is presently a doctoral student at the
University of Johannesburg, South Africa where she is researching on access to
ICT as a human right.
Pallab Raj Nepal: Social worker, specialized on rural development and
integrated water resource management issues with priority on drinking water
supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). He is also a researcher in Environmental
Economics and a PhD candidate at Sai Nath University, Jharkhand, India. He
has a post graduate degree in Economics and is doing research on Economic
Cost Benefit Analysis: Comparative study on standalone Drinking Water Supply
System and Multiple Use of Water System with Drinking Water Supply System.
He has more than 11 years of experience in rural development, especially in the
Water Supply and Sanitation and Water Resource management sector.
Pamela White: She is a generalist, working with rural development, water
supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues, and gender and human rights.
She works with a consulting company in Finland (FCG International) and carries
out short term consultancies globally, but with a particular focus on Nepal. She
is also currently working on a PhD in Development Studies with the University
of Helsinki, focusing on the role of technical assistance. Her prior degrees
include Bachelor Veterinary Science and Masters Social Sciences (International
Development).
Priya Kumar: Doctoral student at the University of Maryland College of
Information Studies. Until August 2016, she was a research analyst with Ranking
Digital Rights.
Ramón Abraham Mena Farrera: Doctor in Social Science and Humanities
from the Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica (CESMECA) and
Universidad de Alicante. Currently, he works as Técnico Académico Titular
Adscrito at the Department of Society, Culture, and Health at the Academic
Group on Gender Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera (ECOSUR). His research
focuses on socio-technical phenomena and technological experience through the
use of the Internet. He has imparted several courses and workshops on ICTs and
uses of software for qualitative and quantitative analysis.
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