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BACKGROUND

 Today's world implies daily activities, private as well as public, requiring growing processing and flow of personal data which, while offering a wealth of opportunities in all activities of the society, poses risks to fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, such as their rights to private life, and therefore needs to be addressed with solid protection frameworks.

Conscious that providing protection to individuals in the digital age, while ensuring an uninterrupted flow of data across borders, is a crucial factor for an inclusive growth, a steadily growing number of African countries are wishing to develop legal and institutional framework to ensure that their populations benefit of an appropriate protection of their personal data.

In the framework of its close relationship with the African Network of Data Protection Authorities since its inception, the Council of Europe co-organises with the Network (for its members and observers and a number of guest countries) a series of monthly on line workshops on a selection of themes of particular relevance to the African region, on the basis of the principles set forth by Convention 108+. With the contribution of recognised data protection experts, the seminars will be a useful source of information and literacy for the data protection authorities of countries in Africa. It will support the African Network in the affirmation and strengthening of its important role for its members and observers, demonstrating its active engagement and concrete contribution to the discussions currently underway in the African countries.

 Participants

The seminars will enable the active participation of representatives of the data protection authorities’ members of the Network as well as of observers, and also be open to any representative of national authorities that are interested in advancing data protection in their respective countries.

 

 Resources

Upcoming Workshops

8 DECEMBER 2020

Workshop 2: From cradle to grave: issues, challenges and considerations of national digital identity systems

 Speakers

  • Alenka Prvinšek Persoglio, Vice President Interact4c
  • Grace Mutungu, Research Fellow, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law, Strathmore University, Kenya
  • Dorothy Mukasa, Chief Executive Officer, Unwanted Witness Uganda

 Experts

  • Patrick Walshe, Privacy Matters
  • Sylvia Appiah, Information Governance Solutions

 Date and time

  • Tuesday, 8 December 2020, 15:00 GMT+1

 Duration and language

  • 2h 30min | English & French

 Outline 

 Presentations

  • The right to privacy: a challenge for the digitisation of "legal identity"?
  • Human rights impact assessments for digital ID programmes: the case of Kenya
  • Digital ID, exclusion and human rights in Uganda

Past Workshops

5 NOVEMBER 2020

Workshop 1: The right to data protection in the digital age

 Speakers

  • Joseph Cannatacci, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
  • Yves Poullet, Professor Emeritus, UNamur
  • Faiza Seidu-Adam, GirlyTech NGO

  Experts

  • Patrick Walshe, Privacy Matters
  • Sylvia Appiah, Information Governance Solutions

 

 Date and time

  • Thursday, 5 November 2020 | 15:00 GMT+1

 Duration and language

  • 2h 30min | English & French

 Outline 

 Presentations

  • Empowering the young generation for digital leadership 
  • AI and Data Protection 
  • The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age