Maria José
Aldanas Sanchez
Maria José Aldanas Sanchez
Policy Officer
FEANTSA
Biography
María José Aldanas Sánchez is a policy officer at FEANTSA.She focuses on housing rights issues and coordinates the Housing Rights Watch. She studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and holds a Master’s degree specialising in migration.
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Speaker session
THEMATIC PANEL
Digitalisation and people: Preventing discrimination, enabling social solidarity
- Ensuring rights-compliant digitalisation
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
In our increasingly digital world, tech advances affect every aspect of our lives, including our human rights. New technologies can speed up decision making, foster equality and enhance inclusion. But they can also undermine human rights and result in discrimination. This panel will explore how to best address algorithmic biases, improve accessibility for underserved groups, and devise strategies to leverage digitalisation for creating a fairer, more inclusive world.
Moderator: Djamila Grandits
Djamila Grandits
Curator, moderator
CineCollective
Yasmin Al-Douri
Co-Director
Responsible Technology Hub
Biography
Yasmin Al-Douri is a Landecker Democracy Fellow, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Responsible Technology Hub, a non-profit organisation focused on the intergenerational creation of a responsible tech future. She has worked for different big tech companies and collaborated with a variety of institutions on responsible and ethical tech. She was named Young Global Changer in 2022. She was included in the Forbes 30 under 30.
Country
Speaker session
THEMATIC PANEL
Digitalisation and people: Preventing discrimination, enabling social solidarity
- Ensuring rights-compliant digitalisation
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
In our increasingly digital world, tech advances affect every aspect of our lives, including our human rights. New technologies can speed up decision making, foster equality and enhance inclusion. But they can also undermine human rights and result in discrimination. This panel will explore how to best address algorithmic biases, improve accessibility for underserved groups, and devise strategies to leverage digitalisation for creating a fairer, more inclusive world.
Moderator: Djamila Grandits
Djamila Grandits
Curator, moderator
CineCollective
Alberto Alemanno
Professor of Law
HEC Paris
Biography
Alberto Alemanno is Jean Monnet Professor of EU law at HEC Paris and visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. A leading voices on Europe’s democratisation, his research centres on how the law can be used to counter social, health, economic and political disparities of access within society. He founded the The Good Lobby, which envisions a society where power is accessible to all.
Country
Speaker session
THEMATIC PANEL
Digitalisation and people: Preventing discrimination, enabling social solidarity
- Ensuring rights-compliant digitalisation
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
In our increasingly digital world, tech advances affect every aspect of our lives, including our human rights. New technologies can speed up decision making, foster equality and enhance inclusion. But they can also undermine human rights and result in discrimination. This panel will explore how to best address algorithmic biases, improve accessibility for underserved groups, and devise strategies to leverage digitalisation for creating a fairer, more inclusive world.
Moderator: Djamila Grandits
Djamila Grandits
Curator, moderator
CineCollective