This session is facilitated by Belén Giménez, Alexandra Argüelles
About this session
The Anti-pyrawebs Observatory (Observatorio Anti-pyrawebs) repository (https://anti.pyrawebs.org/) will be presented on its methodological, operational and technical aspects, talking about the importance of having tools that can help sustain the work of digital rights advocates and organizations, improving their capacities to identify trends and initiatives around digital rights, digital economy and innovation, as well as how it tackles issues such as the loss of information and lack of proper systematization or analysis, and how it can be replicated in other countries and regions of the world.
The general discussion will be framed around the necessity of technology that can help activists and organizations to anticipate certain initiatives contrary to human rights on the online world, to identify and map national and international actors with direct or indirect impact on digital rights, while also making all this information publicly available for anyone interested on the matter.
Goals of this session
The goal of this session is to provide a practical and technical framework on how to create a civic and participatory based Digital Rights Observatory from a pre-existing FLOSS tool as Zotero. This tool will be taken as a starting point for further reflection on news, information and the loss of content. This session will focus on understanding free, public, orderly, collaborative and interactive repositories as a potential solution against the loss of content and as a counterstrike to the main monopolies of information.
With this in mind, the session also seeks to establish a network of collaborators, volunteers and partners throughout the Latin-american region that can feed the tool with more information and also provide with feedback on the approach that the repository is giving to the information hosted in it through its different categories and data visualizations.