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Concurrent Session 4: Manifest & HRDAO: Community-Governed Civic Infrastructure for Human Rights

  • Nov 13, 2026 10:40–11:40AM

  • Room 211 (Maha Chulalongkorn Building)

First round of concurrent sessions

Format: Workshop (hands-on, 60 min)

Speaker: Razali Samsudin

Razali Samsudin brings Manifest and HRDAO as an unfinished “solidarity stack” being tested with Amnesty International across Asia-Pacific. Manifest is a civic platform for human rights documentation and campaigning that puts privacy first and works offline. It uses no trackers and no central storage, and it runs in 15 languages. It is built for activists who face internet shutdowns and surveillance. HRDAO (Human Rights Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) is how the community governs it. People earn a say by doing the work, through petitions, campaigns and documentation, rather than by holding tokens or capital. Razali asks what community-governed civic infrastructure looks like when it is designed from Southeast Asia and the majority world outward.

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