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Geraldo is a front-end developer, co-founder of Casa Hacker hackerspace, Mozilla Representative for Brazil and an Internet Health Report global committee member. He is passionate about teaching digital inclusion and web literacy to local communities and he is among Mozilla’s 2017 Network50 awardees.
The internet embodies some of our deepest hopes for human progress and it has become an essential resource as water, fire, food or shelter. In Brazil this resource has been used to organize us to pressure the public power, access quality education at all levels and boost the economy. But it has also been used to overthrow democracy in the last election and to create space for hate speech and political persuasion. My list focuses on the intersection of democracy and privacy and security, openness and digital inclusion.
- The challenge of democracy in the digital era
- “Deepfakes” are here, now what?
- Women journalists feel the brunt of online harassment
- In defense of anonymity
- 23 reasons not to reveal your DNA
- Spotlight: Let's ask more of AI
- Recognizing the bias of artificial intelligence
- More than half of the world is online, but...
- Internet slowdowns are the new shutdowns
- The new investors in underwater sea cables