Anri van der Spuy

South African. PhD grad @MediaLSE @LSEInequalities, research associate @RIAnetwork.

[Sonia Livingstone @Livingstone_S]

💡Guiding principles for addressing technology-facilitated child sexual abuse and exploitation

📖Read our new #DigitalFutures4Children report @5RightsFound @MediaLSE @LSEnews @UKRI_News @REPHRAIN1 #ChildRights #Digital

🔗https://t.co/JViqCLnun9

[Anri van der Spuy @anrivds]

With much gratitude to fantastic supervisors @Robin_Mansellx + @EllenHel and thoughtful examiners @dorotheakleine + @phat_controller, as well as all the other supporters along the way!

[LSE Media & Communications @MediaLSE]

Congratulations to Anri Van der Spuy @anrivds who successfully defended her PhD viva! 🎉

Anri's research focuses on the technologies of risk, here she is pictured with supervisors @EllenHel @Robin_Mansellx (L-R) & examiners Prof Dorothea Kleine & Dr Tony Roberts.

#PartOfLSE

[African Union | Infrastructure & Energy @au_ied]

🌍✨We are thrilled to announce the 1st Data Governance & Innovation Forum for Africa (#DGIFA) to be hosted in partnership with @GIZAfricanUnion.

Join us Nov 17-18 in #AddisAbaba as we unite to strengthen #African data ecosystems & forge partnerships & mobilise resources.

[GIZ African Union @GIZAfricanUnion]

Unlock the future of #datagovernance in #Africa! 🌍
Join us at the Data Governance & Innovation Forum – where ideas meet impact. 🚀 Register now to shape the data landscape!

🗓️17-18 Nov, 2023
🔗Registration link: https://t.co/Xyc0UQLoVw

[Anri van der Spuy @anrivds]

SA's department of home affairs accused of manipulating/'enhancing' passport photographs of curly-haired applicant (by straightening hair) as a part of biometric verification of ID @RIAnetwork

[CapeTalk on 567AM @CapeTalk]

On Lunch with Pippa Hudson, consumer journalist Wendy Knowler asks what Home Affairs has against curly hair? This after listener Anne found her curly hair had been digitally straightened in her passport photograph!

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

ℹ️We're Hiring📢
Pollicy is seeking an experienced and visionary feminist Executive Director to lead our team and drive the company's growth in Uganda, Africa and across the world.

Details👉https://t.co/bBORtXRSLT

[Anri van der Spuy @anrivds]

@chenaiie @PollicyOrg Can’t have said it better. Well done, @NeemaIyer

[Anri van der Spuy @anrivds]

"We don’t advocate a total end to aid to impoverished countries in Africa... But more pressure for accountability from these regimes, and support for those who are demanding better governance and democracy, might help change things."

[Global Development @GdnDevelopment]

Africa welcomes western aid. But donors must ask where the money is going | Emmanuel Mutaizibwa and Ngina Kirori https://t.co/JnGM1o4Cyc

[Herman Wasserman @hwasser]

Interested in doing a PhD on information disorder at @MatiesJournDept @StellenboschUni? Apply right away!

[Herman Wasserman @hwasser]

Apply now for a fully-funded place at our workshop on Hate and Disinformation on Whatsapp, hosted by @MatiesJournDept @StellenboschUni and @LMU_Muenchen, to be held at @STIAS_SA in March.

https://t.co/83tATNupLP

[Anri van der Spuy @anrivds]

Hope this network will be expanded: perceptions of online safety + risks to same depend on context. A "global" network on online safety therefore needs to actively engage + involve regulators from across the global South if it is to develop a 'coherent international approach'.

[Ofcom @Ofcom]

We've joined forces with @eSafetyOffice @BAItweets and Fiji's Online Safety Commission to launch the Global Online Safety Regulators Network.

Strong global co-operation is key to helping more people live a safer life online.

Read more on the network: https://t.co/eNeB3DHQvo

[Tobias Schonwetter @tobyschonwetter]

Exciting 2023 scholarship opportunity for postgrad students @UctLaw , coupled with a work opportunity at the iNtaka Centre for Law & Technology. Made possible by @KAS_SouthAfrica : https://t.co/Uh07LxaLa4 Application deadline is 30 November 2022. @lawtechlab @AfricanIP @lsc_uct

[Data & Policy @Data_and_Policy]

How do socio-political configurations influence the documents that shape the development of digital identity systems that seek to address development goals? Read new research by Edgar Whitley and Emrys Schoemaker (@Emrys_S) to find out

[Anri van der Spuy @anrivds]

@KimHarrisberg @TowardsFairWork @AASchapiro Oh great - thx for sharing and for highlighting this in your writing!

[Anri van der Spuy @anrivds]

😭 The cost of convenience.

@KimHarrisberg do check out @TowardsFairWork - they’re doing the constructive, difficult work to make gig work more fair + equitable in places like SA.

[Kim Harrisberg ✍️🇿🇦📷 @KimHarrisberg]

Another night driving in joburg, another lifeless food courier’s body lying alongside the remains of a collision. I will never get over the fact that lives are lost so we can have food delivered to us in the comfort of our homes.

[Global Index on Responsible AI @GlobalIndexRAI]

#jobopportunity
@RIAnetwork is looking for an experienced Communications Manager to drive a renewed strategic communications agenda. The role will involve a significant focus on supporting our work at the Global Index on Responsible #AI.

More Info: https://t.co/kwLLROUeI4

[Shoshana Zuboff @shoshanazuboff]

Welcome to democracy's abdication of our information and communication spaces to private ownership and #SurveillanceCapitalism where the emperors have all the clothes and we run naked. Paradoxically, no democracy can survive these conditions [5/6]

[Strathmore CIPIT @StrathCIPIT]

@StrathCIPIT invites applications for a 3 month #fellowship at the Data Governance Centre.

Application deadline is 31st October 2022 at 5:00 p.m. EAT

For more information on how to apply visit https://t.co/vnLBKmeN1i

[Sharath Srinivasan @sharath_sri]

How many lives did a robot save fighting #COVID19 in Rwanda? Short answer: ~none. Long answer: that's not the point. A collab bw @RwandaGov, @Undp and a Belgian robot firm, it's one example of rampant techno-opportunism across #Africa during the pandemic, with worrying effects...

[Herman Wasserman @hwasser]

Do you have a PhD in journalism, media/communication studies? Are you interested in doing research on disinformation, investigative journalism and related topics? Apply for a postdoctoral fellowship at Stellenbosch University's @MatiesJournDept https://t.co/gdPN7ydDln