In this episode, Jillian and I talk with Robin Berjon and Juan Caballero about the value of decentralisation and federated systems and what it means reimagining the Internet and the web. We also discuss about how best technology can serve its users and what the role of regulation is in achieving this.

Robin Berjon & Juan Caballero

For this episode, we sit down with Justin Hendrix, CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a new nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy.

With years of experience in covering tech policy issues, we chat about a bunch of different issues, including privacy, misinformation and disinformation, elections and the future of tech.

S04E04: Justin Hendrix

In this episode, we talk with Rumman Chowdhury, a data scientist and social scientist and the CEO of the tech nonprofit Humane Intelligence, which builds a community of practice around evaluations of AI models. Rumman the United States Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence.

We ask Rumman about AI and how it intersects with humanity, the role of human rights in AI, what responsible AI means and what is the best way to govern it, given the current geopolitical tensions. Rumman also walks us through her thoughts on AI accountability and her term "moral outsourcing".

S04E03: Rumman Chowdhury

In this episode, Konstantinos Komaitis and Jillian York speak with Tin Geber. Tin is a creative technologist and founder of Draftlab, a digital agency for social change makers. In the past decade he was Design and Tech Lead for The Engine Room, Social Innovation Specialist with Hivos, and Managing Director of Greenhost.


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S04E02: Tin Geber

In this episode, Konstantinos Komaitis and Jillian York speak with Rose Jackson, Director, Democracy and Tech Initiative at the Atlantic Council.

We discuss her work on human rights and promoting democracy and how it relates to the Internet and Internet governance, especially the ongoing processes happening at the UN. We also discuss disinformation, its impact on societies and how best to address it.

Like all other episodes, this episode was edited by Javier Pallero.

S04E01: Rose Jackson

For this episode, Konstantinos and Jillian talk to Mona Shtaya, the Campaigns and Partnerships Manager (MENA) and Corporate Engagement Lead at Digital Actions.

We discuss with Mona about the way social media platforms are performing in moderating content since the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and how their actions have affected, and continue to affect, Palestinian people. We also discuss the challenges Palestinian Internet users are facing regarding infrastructure, connectivity and communication.

This episode was edited by Javier Pallero.

The music in this episode is Nightlapse by Arthur Vyncke | https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost

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S03E04: Mona Shtaya

In this episode, Konstantinos Komaitis and Jillian York talk with Meredith Whittaker,the President of the Signal Foundation. Meredith is also the current Chief Advisor, and the former Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the AI Now Institute.

Meredith shares with us the role of Signal in ensuring the privacy and security of communications and her plans for the messaging service. We also discuss the fight for encryption, as pressure to undermine it in jurisdictions across the world is increasing. Finally, we also discuss about AI, its governance and the concerns that have recently manifested by policy makers.

This podcast is edited by Javier Pallero.

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S03E03: Meredith Whittaker

For this episode, Jillian York and Konstantinos Komaitis talk with Thomas Lohninger, the Executive Director of the digital rights NGO, epicenter.works based in Vienna, Austria.

Focusing both on European and international Internet policy, we talk about the highly controversial "fair share" debate, about the nexus between privacy and encryption, digital identity as well as the cybercrime convention.

S03E02: Thomas Lohninger 

In the first episode of Season 3 of the Internet of Humans podcast, Jillian and Konstantinos speak with Raegan MacDonald, who has has been a part of the digital rights scene for more than a decade, working with such organizations as Access Now, EDRI and Mozilla. She now serves as the Director of Policy Leadership for Aspiration Tech.

Among others, we discussed the biggest changes and challenges that have happened in the digital rights movement, the real impact of the Brussels effect and what takes to be a leader.


S03E01: Reagan MacDonald

In this episode, Jillian and Konstantinos talk to activist and musician Evan Greer about Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and his first six weeks, content moderation all the way down the "Internet stack", antitrust and surveillance capitalism and punk rock. Evan is an active writer and you can find her body of work through her personal website: https://evangreer.org. Her latest piece on Twitter was for TIME magazine: https://time.com/6228045/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-future/ 

Evan Greer

There is something profoundly human about the Internet, its infrastructure. The ability of people to join without permission and innovate, the ability of actors to act independently, yet obey to certain standards and the ability to provide the services that allow people to communicate - are all features of a very human technology. At the same time, beyond this heavy machinery, humans feed the Internet constantly with data that affects their lives and those of others. While we talk about issues of speech in the Internet, we rarely pose to consider the impact speech suppression has on humans.

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