Highlights

The following is a selected list of talks, projects, and articles I’ve done over the past years.

2021

Publication: Wrote about the (digital) security needs of Central European journalists
Research: Did some research on using stationary AirTags to track moving objects, which was published by VICE Motherboard
New job: Started working with Internews as a Digital Security Trianing Specialist for Central European Journalists
Collaboration: Worked as a peer reviewer on the Ford Foundation’s Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, which supports NGOs that want to assess and bolster their digital and operational security
Talk: Co-organised and moderated a discussion on recommendation algorithms for Fulbright Poland

Trainings: Led remote digital security classes for Lebanese students
Trainings: Led digital security classes for activists and journalists as part of the Digital and Media Literacy for NGOs training organised by the Digital Communication Network
Trainings: Attended the month-long AXIS programme, both as a participant and a skillshare speaker
Research: Started working on a digital security due diligence checklist for small NGOs and media groups, presented it at the Internet Freedom Festival’s OrgSec Village
Interview: Conducted an interview on data-driven democracy with Stefan Turkheimer
Webinar series: Co-organised and moderated a series of digital affairs webinars with DCN SEE, the Digital Communication Network’s Southeast Europe Hub
Major project: Programme designer and head facilitator for the WEASA 2020 summer school
Trainings: Led digital security classes for activists (Sarajevo)
Major project: Advised the leadership of a university on transitioning to an all-remote culture and communicating to students and others during the Covid-19 pandemic (Warsaw)

Major project: Programme designer and head facilitator for the WEASA 2019 summer school
Talk: Siri and the Stewardess Smile: A Human-Machine Introspection (with Polaris, moderator: Feđa Kulenović), POINT Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Talk: What do we talk about when we talk about AI?, Media Literacy in Action, Minsk, Belarus
Talk: Telling the Stories of Tech, Storytelling In Action Forum, Sofia, Bulgaria
Talk: What influencers need to know about AI, Digital Influencers in Action, Budva, Montenegro
Trainings: Led digital security classes for students (Warsaw) and activists (Sarajevo)
Interview: Nad novou technologií ztrácíme kontrolu a sami jí nerozumíme, varuje odborník na umělou inteligenci (in Czech, interviewed by Jaroslav Hroch), iRozhlaz
Article: Look Towards Norms, Not Treaties, To Regulate Digital Weapons, Yale Journal of International Affairs

Major project: Programme designer and head facilitator for the WEASA 2018 summer school
Talk: Algorytmy, media społecznościowe oraz dziennikarstwo (Algorithms, social media, and journalism), Media Przyszłości, Warsaw, Poland
Talk: AI, Machine Learning, and Journalism, ARIJ18, Dead Sea, Jordan
Talk: How to be Human in an Age of Machine Learning and feel vaguely useful, DataFest Tbilisi, Georgia
Talk: What do we talk about when we talk about tech? Asia-Europe Foundation Young Leaders’ Summit, Brussels, Belgium

Major project: Programme co-designer and assistant facilitator for the WEASA 2017 summer school
Talk: How did the ‘Arab Spring’ differ from uprisings relying on print media? CheckCon, Beirut, Lebanon
Talk: Medieval monks, YouTube comments, and the future of open data The Democracy and Data Forum, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Series: The Politics of Technology: a lecture series College of Europe in Natolin and BiznesLink, both Warsaw, Poland (2017-2018)

Article: Digital foreign policy: how digital tools can further Europe’s foreign policy goals, European View