Digital Privilege With Sheetal Kumar

Sheetal Kumar is head of global engagement and advocacy at Global Partners Digital, a human rights organisation that focuses on digital technologies and the ways they impact on our lives  
Sheetal works to balance the scales through influencing and advocating across policy issues with the aim of shaping digital policy-making processes so they are more open inclusive and transparent
KEY TAKEAWAYS
We’ve focused on the governance of digital technologies including the policies, frameworks regulations and standards that shape digital tech
Fundamentally these policies shape and determine how we use, interact and benefit from digital tech
Digital tech is integral to our lives and an enabler of our human rights
The deployment of digital tech brings  issues that need to be addressed
Directly engaging with policymakers, building and strengthening  networks and capacity building shape understanding of how human rights are impacted by digital technology and digital technology policies
BEST MOMENTS
‘Digital tech is deployed in ways that fundamentally influence our lives’
‘Everyone has a role to play in ensuring that digital tech works for us and it allows us to enable our human rights’ 
‘Policies need to be developed in an inclusive way’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Privilege Survey  https://intelligentlinking261447.typeform.com/to/SNkQvD0v
Website: https://belongingpioneers.com/privilege-research-and-podcast
Email: [email protected]
Useful links: https://linktr.ee/BelongingPioneers
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Ishreen Bradley is a Strategic Pioneer who guides Professional Leaders to navigate complex situations and achieve success with clarity, confidence, and courage. Her focus is to cultivate mindsets and cultures that acknowledge valuable differences, inclusive behaviours, and authentic leadership.  She advises, consults, trains, and coaches senior leaders through her compassionate, intuitive and incisive approach - facilitating them to develop themselves and their teams towards their growth strategy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishreenbradley/
Kami Nuttall is a culture at work expert, derived from 20 years of experience working with organisations, seeing how they work from a governance, risk, ways of working and people perspectives - understanding the human experience at work. And because she is committed to human development, she is building on her psychology and social anthropology background – she has trained with the Anti-Discrimination Foundation on culture, heritage, and anti-discrimination practices, and is a qualified hypnotherapist. Her purpose is to help leaders create cultures that are inclusive, and psychologically safe, that enable people to safely speak up.  She is driven to do this work because of her belief that organisations should maintain and evidence high standards of accountability towards their people and customers.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaminuttall-cultureguru-cultureauditor/
Privilege, Eruption, Culture, Diversity, inclusion, Equity, diverse, cultural, impact, power: https://privilege-eruption.com