2024-06-12 –, Room E - Flexroom
Over the past decade, Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) has advanced transparency on digital rights among the world’s most powerful technology and telecommunications companies. Its benchmarking and research on companies’ policies and practices has been widely recognised as a gold standard on freedom of expression and privacy in the tech sector. Since January 2024, RDR has continued this work as part of the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA).
Working with researchers and civil society organisations around the world, RDR holds digital technology companies to account. Since 2021, RDR has supported 18 independent research adaptations that used our human rights-based standards to evaluate more than 120 local and regional companies across 38 countries.
This session will share learnings from RDR’s global advocacy and engagement work while crowdsourcing ideas for bringing civil society and researchers together. We will showcase freely available resources we have developed to lower the barrier of entry to corporate accountability research, including the RDR Research Lab and Scorecard Toolkit.
The session is an opportunity for individuals to come together to share their experiences and learnings with working to hold companies to account on their actions and commitments to digital rights.
Leandro is the Engagement Lead for Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) within the Digital Transformation of the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA). He focuses on expanding collaboration with and support for civil society organizations around the world, leading efforts to adapt the RDR and Digital Inclusion’s benchmarking methodologies, and strengthening civil society coalitions built around the data produced by the benchmarks under the Digital Transformation.
Kelly is the Global Public Policy Lead at the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) and is part of the Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) team. Prior to RDR she worked at a lobbying firm that focused on information technology policy, where she served as a research and policy associate. Her past internships also include working as a public policy intern at the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress and working in the Public Affairs office of the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, Oman. She holds a B.A in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, where she mainly focused on Europe and the MENA region, studying global issues of security and justice, terrorism and political violence, and U.S. foreign policy.