This week is 'Summit for Democracy' week in DC. Kenny Olmstead will be representing our Pulse team, and no doubt providing global shutdown metrics, at this side event, which is a warm up for the mainstage United States hosted 'Advancing Technology for Democracy <https://bit.ly/42LUvK5>' session at 11:30 EDT (15:30 UTC) which will also be webcast <https://youtu.be/gN6lJI4EflE> No real time text, but I will run a quick transcript into the archive. [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16457>On *Thursday March 30 2023* at *09:30-11:00 EDT* (13:30-15:00 UTC) *Technology for Democracy Cohort <https://summit4democracy.org/tech-for-democracy-cohort-meeting-notes-and-concept/>* co-leads *Estonia <https://www.vm.ee/en>*, the *United Kingdom <https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office>*, and *Access Now <https://www.accessnow.org/>*, together with *New America <https://www.newamerica.org/digital-impact-governance-initiative/>*, *Accountability Lab <https://accountabilitylab.org/>*, *Open Data Charter <https://opendatacharter.net/>*, the *Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab <https://www.digitalsherlocks.org/>*, and the* Internet Society <https://internetsociety.org/>* present '*Championing Digital Democracy for All: Collective Action from the Technology for Democracy Cohort <https://www.newamerica.org/digital-impact-governance-initiative/events/online-championing-digital-democracy-for-all-collective-action-from-the-technology-for-democracy-cohort/>*'. The cohort will tackle priority action areas, including technology to support open and secure access to the Internet, and strengthening digital public infrastructure and tech for good governance, and explore how we can drive cross-sector collaboration among open, democratic societies beyond this year’s *Summit for Democracy <https://www.state.gov/summit-for-democracy-2023/>*. *SPEAKERS* *Hon. Isobel Coleman*, USAID Deputy Administrator *Hon. Jonatan Vseviov*, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia *H.E. Nele Leosk*, Ambassador-at-Large for Digital Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia *H.E. Minna-Liina Lind*, Estonia Ambassador at Large for Human Rights *H.E. Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen*, Tech Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark *Scott Busby*, Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. State Department *Robert Opp*, Chief Digital Officer, UNDP *Kanbar Hossein-Bor*, Deputy Director of Democratic Governance and Media Freedom Department; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the United Kingdom *Manuel Muñiz*, Provost of IE University in Madrid *Brett Solomon*, Executive Director, Access Now *Natalia Carfi*, Executive Director, Open Data Charter *Teresa Hutson*, Corporate Vice President of Technology and Corporate Responsibility, Microsoft *Scott Carpenter*, Director of Policy and International Engagement, Jigsaw *Carolyn Tackett*, Campaigns & Rapid Response Director, Access Now *Kenny Olmstead*, Senior Internet Security and Privacy Expert, Internet Society Pulse *Allie Funk*, Freedom House *Waris Hussain*, American Bar Association *Paul Butler*, President, New America *Silvana Rodriguez*, New America *LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/vI62o51cHIw <https://youtu.be/vI62o51cHIw>* *REGISTER: https://bit.ly/3nvlk55 <https://bit.ly/3nvlk55>* *TWITTER #SummitforDemocracy <https://bit.ly/40KleEJ> #S4D2 @MFAestonia @FCDOGovUK @accessnow @DIGI_NewAmerica @AccountLab @opendatacharter @DFRLab* *MASTODON #SummitforDemocracy <https://mastodon.social/tags/SummitforDemocracy>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/democracycohort2023 <https://archive.org/details/democracycohort2023>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16457 <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/16457>* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -