Nayantara Ranganthan, Digital Asia Hub
Leandro Ucciferri, Ranking Digital Rights
Jie Zhang, Ranking Digital Rights

The session will introduce participants to a discussion about regional trends in corporate accountability, based on the experiences of adapting the Ranking Digital Rights’s research methodology in countries across Asia-Pacific and other regions in the Majority World.We will engage in a conversation about current challenges in studying technology companies in the region, and what can researchers and advocates do to overcome them. We will also discuss strategies to engage with companies and other key stakeholders (like regulators and policymakers), using research data from RDR adaptations. Finally, we will identify opportunities to collaborate between organizations in the region (and globally), to come up with potential advocacy campaigns to face tech power, based on the participants’ experiences and interests.