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Pakistan Academics' Collective

February 25, 2024

Digital Rights in Pakistan: Censorship, Surveillance, Social Media Crackdowns and Digital Resistance

https://wp.nyu.edu/pakistan_academics_collective/wp-content/uploads/sites/28126/2024/02/Virtual-Jalsa-2-Digitalrights.mp4

Panelists:

Usama Khilji – Digital rights activist- Director of Bolo Bhi, a civil society organization geared towards advocacy, policy, and research in the areas of digital rights and civic responsibility. Alumni London School of Economics and the University of London.

Samina Rizwan.  Former VP at Oracle covering ASEAN countries, Country Director Code for Pakistan, and amongst the first of a group of Pakistanis driving legislation for IP and copyright. She has management and finance-related degrees from LUMS and the George Washington University.

Basil Nabi Malik – Karachi-based lawyer, dealing with commercial, constitutional, and civil litigation. Advocate Supreme Court. Regular commentator on judicial matters (Dawn Oped). He has law degrees from Columbia University and LUMS.

Abuzar Salman Niazi – Lahore-based lawyer, affiliated with the PTI. Graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of London and the Lahore School of Economics and the University of Punjab.

 Hussain Nadim – US-based public policy practitioner, working at the intersection of AI, democracy and governance with a special emphasis on how it impacts human and civilisational transformation. He has a doctorate in Government from the University of Sydney, as well as undergraduate and graduate degrees in history, politics, and international relations from the Oxford, Cambridge, and the George Washington University.

 Ammar Rashid –A public policy researcher and political activist, with degrees in development studies from IDS Sussex and LUMS.

 

Moderator : 

Zahra Sabri – Scholar of South Asian Islamic History and Literature, journalist and political activist with degrees from Columbia University and LUMS.

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