WSIS Stocktaking Series: The Coronavirus Response – ICT Case Repository
WSIS
Session 215
This workshop series highlights the effects that the coronavirus pandemic has had on the work of various WSIS Stakeholders, whilst showcasing the role that ICT’s have played in developing solutions towards the unique issues the pandemic presents.
Today, Yuliya leads non-profit organisation TaC-Together against Cybercrime International, which works on the empowerment of users on safe and responsible Internet, child online protection and the Internet Governance issues. TaC International proposes victim assistance procedure based on out-of-court resolution system, works on educational tools for professionals (such as law enforcement or judges) and corporate users, as well as develop awareness raising activities mainly through its Youth IGF project.
Yuliya is an expert belonging to a number of international organisations on ICT markets and cybercrime/cybersecurity and author or co-author of a number of regulatory texts in different countries. She regularly advises governments and private sector entities on cybersecurity strategies. Yuliya has co-initiated such projects as: Youth IGF Movement (2011), EU Observatory on better participation of vulnerable groups in the Information Society (2016) or the Empowerment of vulnerable children online (2013). She recently initiated a development of awareness-raising tools for users on cybersecurity, together with the University of Beira Interior (Portugal).
Yuliya is an appointed #SaferInternet4EU Ambassador by the EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society and former advisor to the UN IGF - Internet Governance Forum (three terms). She is a lecturer at Strasbourg University and co coordinator of the research team at the Faculty of Social Sciences studying the use of ICTs by young people from deprived areas. She is a graduate from the Institute of Political Sciences of Paris and also holds a Master degree in European Affairs and the L.L.M. in Internet Law.
Fabio leads initiatives to encourage people to become creators of their health (https://www.openvillage.ch). He co-founded Breathing Games to foster respiratory care through play, co-organized the European hackathon against Covid, and finishes a report on Open Science in Canada. Fabio has a transdisciplinary education in group dynamics, health research, and law (PhD research on Ending misery: How 1000s of people can put in commons their resources to achieve collective wealth).
Carolyne is a computer scientist and the founder of Apps and Girls - https://www.appsandgirls.com/ , an award-winning social enterprise that invests in girls and young women as potential tech entrepreneurs, tech creators, tech role models, and leaders, in Tanzania and across Sub-Saharan Africa,
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Information Systems from Kampala International University.
Her work has been recognized both locally and internationally and was awarded the Innovator of the year 2018 award by the Aid and International Development Forum, Social Inclusion Award 2019 by Women In Tech. She is a collaborator of the Obama Foundation, mentor at First Global Robotics competition, Africa Entrepreneurship award and serves as the Africa Code Week regional Ambassador.
Carolyne believes that Tech is the reality of the future as we move deeper into the digital revolution, and entrepreneurship is a driving force and she works to break various barriers that hinder girls & young women in ICT such as a non-existent support system, lack of role models and prevailing gender stereotypes by providing the alternative, a supportive path into the field of ICT and a future in tech.
