November 18 and 19, 2022
Paris, Le Sample, 18 avenue de la République, 93170 – Bagnolet
Languages of the conference: Russian and English (with simultaneous translation).
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Lunch and coffee breaks are provided for all participants. An exhibition “Digital Resistance” will be hosted at the venue for the two days.
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Friday November 18
10:00-10:15 – Opening ceremony
What is Internet Without Borders? Goals and values of the project
- Dmitri Vitaliev, co-founder and director of eQualitie;
- Françoise Daucé, director of the CERCEC and coordinator of the ResisTIC project.
10:15-11:30 – Walled gardens of Runet : informational isolation in its terminal phase
10:15-10:30 – “RuNet Self-Isolation : what do we know and what we don’t know yet?” – Aleksei Sidorenko, the head of Teplitsa for Social Technologies;
10:30-10:45 – “Internet Protection Society: measuring Internet Freedom” – Mikhail Klimarev, the head of Internet Protection Society;
11:00-11:15 – “Sanctions against Russia and their consequences for digital rights” – Access Now;
11:15-11:30 – “Decentralisation of communications and new technologies for censorship circumvention” – Dmitri Vitaliev, co-founder and head of eQualitie;
11:30-12:00 – Coffee-break and pastries
12:00-13:05 – Journalists and artists agains censorship: in search for new creative solutions for communication in the time of war
12:00-12:15 – “Digital migrations: practices of digital self-defense of Russian media and NGOs in exile, before and after the 24 February 2022” – Olga Bronnikova, professor at University Grenoble-Alpes, researcher at the ResisTIC project;
12:15-12:30 – “Media in times of hybrid war: new platforms and new methods of reaching the audiences” – Denis Kataev, informational TV-channel TVRain;
12:30-13:05 – “Artists versus digital control: art&science as a tool against propaganda” – Helena Nikonole, artist and curator;
13:05-14:00 – lunch (provided for all participants) and exhibition mediation
14:00-15:30 – “Tools of digital freedom: an overview of technical projects for censorship circumvention”
14:00-14:15 – «Nym mixnet: the difference between anonymity and censorship-resistance» – Yana Matrosova, Nym developer;
14:15-14:30 – Mesh networks and communications in times of shutdowns and connectivity issues – Taziden, founder of the League of Independent Internet Access Providers;
14:30-14:45 – “Internet censorship in the context of full-scale invasion in Ukraine: through the lens of network measurements” – Arturo Filasto, OONI;
14:45-15:00 – “Share the web: CENO browser and the new paradigm for accessing blocked media” – Dmitri Vitaliev, CENO;
15:00-15:15 – “Presentation of the Amnesia VPN project” – the founder of Amnezia VPN;
15:15-15:30 – Lantern project presentation;
15:30-15:45 – coffee break and pastries, exhibition mediation
15:45-16:45 – “Propaganda: inside and out”
15:45-16:35 – “How does the language of propaganda work?” – Dr. Aleksandra Arkhipova, researcher, laboratory of Social Anthropology, EHESS.
16:35-16:45 – coffee break and pastries
16:45-17:30 – Round-table
16:45-17:30 – “Human VPN: technical and interpersonal bridges in communication. Experience of coordinating anti-war activism in France” – Russie-Libertés, RuCi Asile, Feminist Anti War Resistance France. Panelists: Andrey Jvirblis, the head of Declarator project, Lev Ponomaryov, human rights defender, Sergey Ilupin (RuCi Asile), Olga Prokopyeva (Russie-Liberté).
17:30-17:45 – coffee break and pastries
17:45-19:00 – “Propaganda and censorship on temporary occupied territories of Ukraine”
17:45-18:00 – “Informational war of Russia against Ukraine: experience of Ukrainian journalists” – Serhiy Zhdanov, Anton Tarasiuk;
18:00-18:15 – “Propaganda from the space: how French company Eutelsat collaborates with Russian propaganda?” – André Lange, Denis Diderot Committee ;
18:15-19:00 – Internet-traffic in occupied territories of Ukraine: connectivity and censorship – Louis Petinaud;
19:00-19:15 – Closing of the conference
19:15-21:00 – Cocktail, concert and networking
19:15-20:00 – Petr Theremin – concert live (electronics, improv, experimental);
20:00-21:00 – Cookie Collective (livecoding, audiovisual jam); Ivan Napreenko (industrial techno, live).
Program may be subject to changes.
