Amy Cowlard is an APM qualified Project Manager who has worked at IDS since 2017.
She currently supports a portfolio of projects themed around digital human rights: authoritarianism, social protection and disinformation. Amy also supports the functions of the Project Management Unit (PMU) at IDS, including working with management to streamline processes and procedures. She has a Masters in Anthropology and a BA in Human Geography and International Politics.
The project will contribute to arresting democratic regression by identifying, documenting and analysing existing and newly emerging elements of digital authoritarianism and the practices of digital citizenship that work best to mitigate or overcome them.
How is the digitalisation of social protection affecting workers’ rights and digital rights?
The Sousveillance Project will document the supply chain of digital technologies from the global North used for illegal surveillance in Africa and produce evidence to hold accountable the companies that benefit from violating citizens’ rights.
This research will review how surveillance is legally defined, limited, and subject to oversight in six African countries: Nigeria, Senegal, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya and South Africa.
This photographic exhibition tells the story of changing lives and livelihoods in Lokichar, a small town in Turkana County, and surrounding villages that are at the centre of northern Kenya’s oil frontier. This exhibition will be opened by the Labour MP for Kemptown and member of the...