Highlights

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

   

2021

• 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

   

2020

• 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)

   

2019

• 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

   

2018

• 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

   

2017

• 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)

   

2016

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