Alexandra Esenler
Alex is a data and database nerd who is passionate about knowledge sharing and building systems that amplify impact, improve workflows, and facilitate collaboration. She’s been active in the digital and human rights, media and democracy, and communications spaces for over a decade through work with mission-oriented organizations such as OpenArchive, Global Voices, the Center for Global Communication Studies, and Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her current work at OpenArchive, her recent projects include Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory which uses deep qualitative analysis from local researchers to increase understanding of what is going on in regional media ecosystems.
Sessions
In 2022 Advox, the digital rights project of Global Voices, gathered researchers from 17 different countries around the world to explore the political and social context that fuels the the emergence of digital authoritarianism. This panel will present the multi-country research and expand our collective understanding of the rise of digital authoritarianism. Researchers will present a summary of the global situation as well as specific country contexts in Sudan, Egypt and Morocco. The panel will summarise the transnational nature of digital authoritarianism and therefore a more expansive plan of action to respond to its rise.
We are interested in sharing and learning with the hope that Save can be a useful tool for those interested in creating a more secure media preservation ecosystem. We aim to get them to think more about their physical and digital safety when capturing and preserving mobile media as well as the importance of creating robust, secure, verifying digital archives to help preserve truth to power and bring more accountability and justice.