Session
Team CommUnity
Danae Tapia
Director of community strategy at Team Community
Civil Society
GRULAC
Francisco Vera
Program officer at Open Society Foundations
Civil Society
WEOG
Úrsula Schüler
Communications officer
Team Community
Civil society
GRULAC
Danae Tapia
Director of community strategy at Team Community
Civil Society
GRULAC
Francisco Vera
Program officer at Open Society Foundations
Civil Society
WEOG
Danae Tapia
Úrsula Schüler
Úrsula Schüler
3. Good Health and Well-Being
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
Targets: Both SDGs 3 and 8 are closely related in our proposal. When our researchers reported the mental health crisis within the community of digital rights defenders we were able to realise that approaches such as medication or therapy on their own would not be able to produce a sustainable impact, it was necessary to tackle structural issues and the right to decent work was a transversal factor that would improve people’s lives in concrete ways.
After plenty of interviews, tests and research on management studies, we have concluded that the three policies we present in our pamphlet: a four-day work week, the right to disconnect and unlimited vacations, are effective implementations that advance the aforementioned SDGs.
Gathering
We will start with a very short presentation, we will distribute physical copies of the pamphlet and then we will organise people in subgroups so they can intimately discuss labour conditions in the digital rights space.
English
Psychosocial research has demonstrated a severe crisis of emotional health in the digital rights space. At Team Community (TCU), we propose that structural issues of this industry, specifically labour rights, are crucial to tackle this problem, and in the recent months we have been sharing in different spaces the Digital Justice Every Day pamphlet with concrete organisational policies to tackle this crisis that not only affects the wellbeing of our community members but also impacts in the quality of the work we produce.
In this activity we want to provide a safe space to discuss labour rights affairs, we have noticed the lack of instances to reflect on this topic and this gathering will be a necessary moment to assess and promote better holistic conditions for the different individuals participating in the 2023 IGF. We will also advance towards collective strategies between digital rights defenders, funders and other stakeholders to make the right to decent work a standard for our industry.
Information about our materials and resources are available at the website of our Digital Justice House program: https://www.digitaljustice.house/
The interaction between onsite and online speakers will be facilitated by Úrsula Schüler, communications officer of Team Community, who will host virtual consultations with people wishing to participate virtually.
Both onsite and online participants will have the best online experience because of our vast know-how of hosting hybrid events. For instance, our moderator will ascribe to values such as privacy of the attendees and will ensure safety by following TCU’s code of conduct.
As complementary tools, we will use TCUs infrastructure such as promotion and dialogue in our Mattermost channel plus note-taking in our wiki where notes and transcriptions will be shared so people can also participate asynchronously.