Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion
Alexandrine is Director of Strategy at Privacy International. She manages and oversees the development and delivery of Privacy International's strategic portfolio aimed at ensuring that innovative solutions serve individual and communities and protection their dignity rather than state power and corporate interest. This portfolio explores issues of digital identity, protecting communities at risk online, the digitisation of access to economic, social and cultural rights, and the use of data and technology in immigration enforcement control and border management.
Previously, she was engaged in research and advocacy on issues relating to human rights, irregular migration, Security Sector Reform (SSR), gender, conflict management, and human security. Alexandrine graduated from the University of Birmingham with an MSc in Conflict, Security and Development following an LLM in International Law at the University of Westminster following and BA in Law with International Relations from Oxford Brookes University.
Session
This session is for people who want to learn about what data processing and technologies are being deployed in the sector of digital health and in particular maternal, newborn and child healthcare, and ongoing research is being undertaken in this domain in the Middle East with a focus on Palestine and Jordan. The session will aim to inspire participants to identify opportunities for advocacy to ensure a rights-based approach to digital initiatives which considers the fulfilment of the right to health as well as other fundamental rights.