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MAIA: Artificial Intelligence to Protect Those Who Defend Rights
Centro de Autonomía Digital
In Latin America and the Caribbean, civil society organizations face an increasingly complex landscape. Repression no longer occurs only in the streets or in courtrooms; it also unfolds in digital spaces. Mass surveillance, targeted cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, gender-based digital violence, communication infiltration, and online criminalization are now part of the daily reality for human rights and land defenders, social organizations,...
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CAD signs interinstitutional agreement with Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas - UCE
- January 27, 2023
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Centro de Autonomía Digital
- In November 2022, the Digital Autonomy Center (CAD) began conversations with the authorities and teachers of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Central University of Ecuador in...
CAD gave a presentation at the Faculty of Computer Science of the National Polytechnic School (Escuela Politécnica Nacional - EPN)
- December 22, 2022
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Centro de Autonomía Digital
- On December 22, our team presented the talk “Cryptographic Protocols for Secure Communication” at the Faculty of Computer Science of the National Polytechnic School.
CAD technical director joins OpenPGP Key Server board
- November 28, 2022
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Centro de Autonomía Digital
- OpenPGP is one of the oldest and most popular standards for sending and receiving end-to-end encrypted and signed emails. Many activists, journalists and others rely on it for their security....
CAD participated in the Cybersecurity Summit at Universidad Nacional in Colombia
- November 20, 2022
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Centro de Autonomía Digital
- The Cybersecurity Summit at Universidad Nacional in Colombia is an event led by the university research group Tlon-Uqbar. The event has stood out for managing to attract both the national...
CAD visits Colombia (October 2022)
- October 27, 2022
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Centro de Autonomía Digital
- On the 11th of October in 2022, the Digital Autonomy Center (Centro de Autonomía Digital or CAD), started a week long visit to Bogotá in Colombia, with the purpose to...
CAD at the 18th edition of FLISoL Quito
- June 29, 2022
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Centro de Autonomía Digital
- On June 4th, the eighteenth edition of the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival of Quito, an event of vital importance for education and sharing of Free Software, took place....