October 25, 2011

Silicon Valley Focuses on Human Rights Implications of Its Work

I'm attending the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference--the third such conference, following Yahoo's conference in April 2010 (if I recall correctly), and Google's Budapest conference in Fall 2010--a public demonstration of a commitment to the virtues of free speech. Some will question whether billion dollar corporations can ever be sincere in their commitment to human rights, or whether such efforts are simply window dressing. The corporate officers present here--from Google and Facebook--certainly have human rights bona fides in their biographies.

Van Jones is going on now, talking about the "pro democracy struggle going on right here.  A struggle against plutocracy."  Watch it online here.

Posted by Anupam Chander on October 25, 2011 at 12:13 PM in Digitization, Globalization | Permalink