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# FtO at RightsCon 2025
## RightsCon 2025
Feb 24-27 2025, Taipei International Convention Center (TICC)
## FtO session organization
### Todo list for speakers
- [ ] Speakers must also register & get ticket
- https://www.rightscon.org/registration/
- early bird ends ==Dec 3==
- chihao has the discount codes
> There are 4 discount codes: 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%-off, 1 ticket each [name=chihao]
- [ ] chihao
> I am local so I can use the lower discount ticket :) [name=chihao]
- [ ] Mami
- [ ] Eunsoo
- [ ] Facilitator?
- [ ] Plan travel + hotel early
- [x] chihao - I live in Taipei :)
- [ ] Mami
- [ ] Eunsoo
- [ ] Update session info ==must before Oct 13==
### Timeline
- Jun 7: Proposal submitted
- Aug 27: Session accepted
- Oct: Program building, consistent communications with RightsCon team
- Early Dec: Program schedule & room assignment
### Session Format
- 60-min in-person dialogue
- Everyone must be on-site
## Proposal
### Title: 5 Years Facing the Ocean: Connecting Information Accessibility and Integrity Efforts in East Asia
> author: chihao
> proposal 24543
> submitted June 7 2024
> notes
> - anti-extradition law info
> - COVID-19 info
> - community fact-checking
> - data-driven projects countering misinformation
> - open parliament
>
### Description
Since 2019, participants and members of civic hacking communities in Taiwan (g0v.tw), Japan (Code for Japan), and Korea (Code for Korea) have been organizing the Facing the Ocean regional network. Three presenters will share the inception of the network, its organizational scheme, as well as key moments and projects using tech and collaboration to address communinal, national, and regional issues.
This session will focus on the issue of information accessbility and integrity. Presenters will highlight such projects and efforts connected by the Facing the Ocean network, working against government suppression, authoritarian interference, and (physical) cultural divides in East Asia.
Examples include an anti-extradition law portal (2019), COVID-19 dashboards (2020-2021), community fact-checking (and its dissolution in Korea), data-driven projects countering misinformation (2023), and AI-assisted open parliament (2023).
Presenters will then share a preliminary country comparison of information accessibility and integrity among East Asian countries based on an open dataset of the aforementioned projects, other related efforts, and recent developments in the region.
Slido will be used to collect questions and feedback during sharing. An facilitated open discussion will follow. A shared document will be used throughout the session to create meeting notes and formulate future collaboration.
### What do you want to learn from participants?
- Other regional effort to connect civic tech-er / hackers
- Other East Asian / Southeast Asian civil-society led effort addressing information accessibility and integrity
- Best practices in conducting country comparisons
### How will participants collaborate after session?
- Join online workspace (via Slack) of g0v.tw, Code for Japan, Code for Korea
- Participate in projects, hackathons, meetups of Facing the Ocean, g0v.tw, Code for Japan, Code for Korea
- Contribute to the dataset of information accessibility and integrity projects in East Asia and Southeast Asia
### Speakers
- Chihhao Yu, g0v.tw
- Eunsoo Lee, Code for Korea
- Mami Takesada, Code for Japan