The Oslo Freedom Forum is a transformative annual conference where “the world’s most engaging human rights advocates, artists, tech entrepreneurs, and world leaders meet to share their stories and brainstorm ways to expand freedom and unleash human potential across the globe.”
This year’s event brought together more than 300 speakers, artists, community members, technologists, and performers to share their stories to the media in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
The Oslo Freedom Forum, an annual human rights conference held in Norway, talks cryptocurrency and the Blockchain at the event’s opening panel. The Oslo Freedom Forum
The opening panel consisted of : Srđa Popović, a Serbian activist who helped topple his country’s dictatorship under Slobodan Milošević
Hyeonseo Lee, who escaped North Korea twice, once on her own, and once again to save her family
Bjørn Ihler, who survived the terrorist attack of July 22nd in Norway
Kimberley Motley, an American lawyer who donates her time to those who cannot afford legal representation
Roya Mahboob, a female tech entrepreneur from Afghanistan who has faced death threats from the Taliban and other religious extremists John Peder Egenæs, the secretary-general of Amnesty International in Norway Manal al-Sharif, a Saudi activist who helped to start the Women2Drive movement in Saudi Arabia Rosa María Payá, a Cuban democracy activist whose father was murdered by the dictatorship of Cuba Abdalaziz Alhamza, who is smuggling video evidence of atrocities being committed in ISIS-controlled territory and countering ISIS propaganda as part of an activist collective, ‘Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently’ Iyad el-Baghdadi, a blogger expelled from the United Arab Emirates for posts he made on his blog, forcing him to live in a Malaysian airport Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian democracy activist whom the FSB, under the Putin regime, tried to poison, and survived, despite a very low chance of survival Blockchain […]
