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Nevena Krivokapić-Martinović is a media lawyer, specializing in online media, freedom of expression in the digital environment. From 2013, she dedicated her work to exploring the new feature media ecosystem and position of online media for the implementation of human rights standards in the digital environment through activities of Share Foundation.

Vladan Joler, is SHARE Foundation co-founder and professor at the New Media department of the University of Novi Sad. He is leading SHARE Lab, a research and data investigation lab for exploring different technical and social aspects of algorithmic transparency, digital labour exploitation, invisible infrastructures, black boxes, and many other contemporary phenomena on the intersection between technology and society.

8.00–8.50 p.m. Panel – New EU & CoE Regulatory Instruments

Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, Member of the European Parliament 

Joe McNamee, Adviser of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament

Moderator: Đorđe Krivokapić, University of Belgrade 

 

As the digital environment is constantly providing new challenges for human rights and social processes, international actors such as the EU and the Council of Europe are pushing against Big Tech and its agenda. The panel will provide an insight into new regulatory instruments aimed at reigning in the key corporate actors, most notably the ad tech industry as well as usual suspects such as Meta, Google, Apple, etc.

Dunja Mijatović, was elected Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights on 25 January 2018 by the Parliamentary Assembly and took up her position on 1 April 2018. National of Bosnia and Herzegovina, she has been working to promote and protect human rights for the past two decades, thus acquiring extensive knowledge in the field of international monitoring, in particular as regards freedom of expression. Prior to her appointment as Commissioner for Human Rights, she has served as OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2010-2017), Director of Broadcast of the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-2010), Chair of the European Platform of Regulatory Agencies (2007–2010) and of the Council of Europe's Group of Specialists on Freedom of Expression and Information in Times of Crisis (2005-2007).

Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA) since 2019, but has always linked local political action with commitments at the European level. Her work in the European Parliament focuses on civil liberties and rule of law, digital rights, gender equality and constitutional affairs.

Joe McNamee, has been working on topics related to internet regulation for over 20 years. Prior to his current role as policy adviser for a political group in the European Parliament, he worked as a consultant. From 2009 to 2018, he led European Digital Rights, the association of digital civil rights organizations in Europe for nine years, working on major topics such as adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Copyright Directive. Prior to this, Joe worked for a political consultancy specialized in telecommunications and internet policy, where he led three research projects funded by the European Commission. During this time, he also worked on the EU’s E-Commerce and ePrivacy Directives. Joe holds master’s degrees in European Politics and in International Law.

Dr. Đorđe Krivokapić LL.M. is a lawyer, co-founder of the SHARE Foundation, and Professor of ICT Law at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences - the University of Belgrade. He focuses on the intersection of emerging technologies and society, particularly online free speech, information privacy, digital security, and open access to knowledge. Đorđe teaches courses on ICT Law, Business Law, Business Ethics and Business Systems Organization at the University of Belgrade and University of Arts in Belgrade.

 

Bojan Perkov is a Policy Researcher at the SHARE Foundation. His interests and areas of work include freedom of expression and online media, as well as other issues related to digital rights and freedoms, such as hate speech, net neutrality, censorship, data protection, digital security, etc.

Nina Bogdanović, is an Information Security specialist at SHARE Foundation. She holds a degree in Security Studies. Her area of work includes cybersecurity and information security with focus on identifying potential cyber security threats to digital infrastructure of an organization through risk assessment and designing protection mechanisms and security policies. Her interests are digital forensics, penetration and vulnerability testing, restored data and metadata research, profiling and political information warfare.

Adel Abusara has expertise in cybersecurity governance, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. His interests circle around public-private partnerships in cybersecurity, awareness-raising methods in this field and different legislative and strategic frameworks for cybersecurity governance in Europe. Prior to his current engagement at the PwC Serbia, where he is part of the cybersecurity governance team of the PwC CEE network, Adel worked as a Project Coordinator at the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) where he also dealt with cybersecurity governance in Serbia and the Western Balkans region, whereas his previous experience includes working for the OSCE Mission to Serbia, where he developed the cybersecurity portfolio of the Mission and a number of civil society organizations dealing with security sector governance.

Nevena Ružić, Being foresighted and nudged by pure luck, Nevena has been successfully “limiting” her professional engagement since 2001 to information law. Thus, just: right to privacy, data protection, freedom of information, and expression, internet governance and other fields of law and life these topics may affect. Currently she is coordinating the Digital Watch program of the OSF Serbia and training/talking/teaching in spare time.

Blerjana Bino, is a researcher in social sciences with a particular focus on media, democracy, and participation. She is a research member of the Safe Journalists Network in the Western Balkans. She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Centre Science and Innovation for Development (SCiDEV), leading a network of outstanding scholars and policy researchers working on democratic development, good governance, media and communication, research to society collaborations and digital transformation.

 

Duje Prkut, is a freelance expert in good governance and public policy analysis. Since 2015, he closely monitors the impact of digital technologies on fundamental democratic processes, human rights and mental health of users.

 

Andrej Petrovski, has completed his master's degree in computer crime. He is the Technical Director of the SHARE Foundation and the Director of SHARE CERT. His work is focused on cyber attacks on online media and civil society organizations in the Western Balkans. He authored numerous works in the field of computer security, information privacy and cybercrime.