Valeria Betancourt

Is @signal.org down?

I am not managing to connect to it today.

The Silent Coup Against Brazil’s Internet Last week, I was in Brazil and had the chance to engage directly with  CGI.br (the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee)  and the broad community of stakeholders it brings together. The energy,...

The silent coop against Brazil’s Internet: www.komaitis.org/write-share-...

you're looking at a foreign country. the government rounds up people on the basis of skin color or other characteristic, puts them in 'detention' facilities, separates families, deports them without process, confiscates their property, denies them access to counsel. what would you call it?

Alaa Abd El-Fattah Is Free: Family Celebrates Political Prisoner’s Release in Egypt Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was granted a presidential pardon on Monday and has reunited with his family after spending most of the last 12 years in prison. The writer a...

"Alaa is free, but he doesn’t have justice. There’s still so many thousands of political prisoners in Egypt, including dozens who are behind bars simply for speaking out in solidarity with Palestine and against Israel’s genocide.”

www.democracynow.org/2025/9/23/al...

#Egypt #PoliticalPrisoners

Financing digital equity at WSIS+20: A task force to turn commitments into action Over the past two decades, the WSIS process has served as a valuable platform for dialogue, target setting and multistakeholder engagement. Yet the digital divide remains stubbornly entrenched. At the...

Connectivity gaps persist between regions and within countries.

At the heart of these challenges lies a common denominator: financing.

---> Read more in our new piece on financing #DigitalEquity at #WSIS20: A task force to turn commitments into action

www.apc.org/en/news/fina...

'This move represents a dangerous escalation in efforts to silence human rights experts and discredit international accountability mechanisms.'

www.apc.org/en/pubs/join...

Are you following our #FeministTech starter pack?

go.bsky.app/7kwnBCQ

#UNGA #WSIS20 1st prep meeting: Philippines suggests anchoring #GlobalDigitalCompact in the larger framework of the #WSIS. (This GDC vs WSIS framing issue will no doubt continue to loom large throughout the WSIS+20 review process)

Justicia digital, ¡ya!

Un llamado a la acción hacia la CMSI+20 y más allá 👇

www.apc.org/es/pubs/just...

#CMSI @wsis20sec.bsky.social #JusticiaDigital

En la vida y la muerte de José Mujica Allá que viene con su Vespa, como si fuera Nanni Moretti por las calles de Roma.

Conocí a Alfons hace poco en la presentación de su libro más reciente. Esto que ha escrito sobre Mujica no tiene desperdicio.

Sí que sé que Mujica seguirá siempre en la memoria de quienes saben que sin dignidad la vida es un estercolero donde se pudre la decencia. 

www.publico.es/opinion/colu...

Y otras —pocas— que son las dos cosas.

The new US administration must recommit to human rights at home and abroad: UN experts GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today expressed concerns about the new US administration’s recent actions that undermine human rights and fundamental freedoms at both domestic and international leve...

A call from UN experts for us all:

States, civil society, businesses – every one who believes in ‘international law, justice, human rights, peace, security and sustainable development’ – must come together to defend these values and institutions that safeguard them.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

We refuse to accept a digital order dictated by corporate greed and state control.

We demand a digital future that belongs to the people...

www.apc.org/en/pubs/glob...

The embarrassing failure of the Paris AI Summit Experts are sounding the alarm — but governments simply won’t listen

"The Paris Summit’s failure may yet serve one useful purpose: as a wake-up call. It has shown, definitively, that the current approach to AI governance is broken. The question now is whether we have time to fix it."

www.transformernews.ai/p/paris-ai-s...

Yo ☺️

Aquí vamos: nueva edición de KYD 1-1, mi clínica de edición.

Es simple: tienen un proyecto grande (en general, un libro) y necesitan un editor que ayude a darle forma. Heme aquí. Sufre el texto, no el ego.

Inicio: 20/02
Más detalles: info@diegofonseca.com y DM.

¿Ayudan con RT-repost?

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

We have an open position at Tecnología Crítica. We are looking for a Communications coordinator. Come join our wonderful team! 👇 #jobalert criti.ca/team/job-pos...

Deuterofobia en pleno.

Siria y los peros Hay quien solo se preocupa por las mujeres y su forma de vestir ahora, no cuando estaban en prisión, siendo torturadas o asesinadas

Hay quien solo se preocupa por las mujeres sirias y su vestimenta ahora, y no cuando estaban en prisión, siendo torturadas o asesinadas.

Hoy publico en @elpais.com:

elpais.com/opinion/2024... #Siria

Los que recomiendan: a) en un par de podcasts buenísimos que sigo, b) mis amigos lectores/escritores/narradores.

Too late.

Caí.

Unpleasantly syrupy.

Estaría bien hacer un hilo con los mejores diagramas de Venn. Me haríais muy feliz. Venga, va. Empiezo yo con estos dos

Clementina al viento. O, en su defecto, una clementina haciendo equilibrio en las alturas.

Which governments impose SIM-card registration laws to collect data on their citizens? - Comparitech Just over 5.4 billion people worldwide have mobile phones, accounting for almost 70 percent of the entire global population, according to the GSM Association. The majority of national governments (aro...

Which governments impose SIM-card registration laws to collect data on their citizens? www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-pri...

I am not aware of any research showing that mandatory SIM registration results in safer societies. Yet here we are.

"Reza, reza o rio
Córrego pro rio e o rio pro mar
Reza a correnteza, roça a beira, doura a areia
Marcha o homem sobre o chão."

¿Qué está pasando en Siria? El panorama sirio se presenta como una madeja de intereses locales entremezclados con las agendas de las grandes potencias, convirtiendo al país en un campo de batalla geopolítico.

Aquí lo tenéis. Mi análisis en @publico.es:

www.publico.es/internaciona...

#Siria

Y de atorrantes, además, por eso de que, casi siempre, es un 'sorry not sorry'.

YouTube video by PostmodernJukebox Dream On - Postmodern Jukebox ft. Morgan James (Aerosmith Cover)

De los 'covers', ¡este!

Uf.

youtu.be/Yq4KA0mUnC8?...

APC at the 15th AWID International Forum 2024 Technology is a feminist issue. Technology is an issue for all feminists.From 2 to 5 December, APC will join the 15th AWID International Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, which is both a global community ev...

Are you attending the #AWID2024 Forum?

Join us in shaping the narrative around technology-facilitated gender-based violence in how it affects women, LGBTQI+ persons, and our capacity to use technology.

apc.org/node/40429

#GenderViolenceOnline #AWIDForum2024 #RisingTogether