South African. PhD grad @MediaLSE @LSEInequalities, research associate @RIAnetwork.
Joined August 2013
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
4 Dec 2024
💡Guiding principles for addressing technology-facilitated child sexual abuse and exploitation
📖Read our new #DigitalFutures4Children report @5RightsFound @MediaLSE @LSEnews @UKRI_News @REPHRAIN1 #ChildRights #Digital
🔗digital-futures-for-children…
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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!
13 Mar 2024
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.
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
10 Nov 2023
🌍✨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.
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
14 Nov 2023
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: accreditation.au.int/en/regi…
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17 May 2023
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
17 May 2023
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!
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
14 Mar 2023
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👉pollicy.org/events/were-hiri…
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16 Feb 2023
"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."
16 Feb 2023
Africa welcomes western aid. But donors must ask where the money is going | Emmanuel Mutaizibwa and Ngina Kirori theguardian.com/global-devel…
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
17 Nov 2022
Interested in doing a PhD on information disorder at @MatiesJournDept @StellenboschUni? Apply right away!
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
16 Nov 2022
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.
journalism.sun.ac.za/en/2022…
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16 Nov 2022
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'.
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: ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/202…
ALT Global Online Safety Regulators Network logo
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
15 Nov 2022
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 : law.uct.ac.za/undergrad-info… Application deadline is 30 November 2022. @lawtechlab @AfricanIP @lsc_uct
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
7 Nov 2022
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
7 Nov 2022
On the sociopolitical configurations of digital identity principles
Edgar A. Whitley and @Emrys_S
@LSEManagement @MediaLSE @CaribouDigital
→ doi.org/10.1017/dap.2022.30
#DigitalIdentity #DigitalID
ALT Image of the title and abstract of the article 'On the sociopolitical configurations of digital identity principles'
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
31 Oct 2022
#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: bit.ly/3NfeglW
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29 Oct 2022
😭 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.
28 Oct 2022
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.
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
28 Oct 2022
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]
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
24 Oct 2022
@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 cutt.ly/datagovfellow
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
22 Oct 2022
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...
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
21 Oct 2022
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 bit.ly/3CRTd3R
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Digital transformation in Africa will create immense opportunities, but without adequate regulation, it also carries risks.
In their newest brief, @ChloeTvan and @LidetTadesse analyse how Africa can avoid becoming a pawn of digital geopolitics📱
👉bit.ly/3V9yFfH
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Anri van der Spuy retweeted
11 Oct 2022
NEW‼️ Our policy paper on extent that people in South Africa could mitigate health & economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic & lockdowns through digital substitution. An output of the Global South project COVID-19 Responses for Equity funded by @IDRC_CRDI
👀bit.ly/3fT2T6o
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