[hrpc] Resignation as HRPC co-chair

[Mallory Knodel <[e-mail]>]

Dear Avri,

Thank you so much for your leadership and vision. HRPC wouldn’t exist
without your efforts and I’m hopeful that you’ll stay engaged.

Colin and I will be working together to find another co-chair for the
group. Please send us your nominations or offers to volunteer.

-Mallory

On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After approximately 4 years as the HRPC co-chair, I have decided it is
> time for me to  step down as co-chair.
>
> For the most part I have enjoyed my time in the group. While I started it
> with my 2 collaborators, Joana and Niels, with great enthusiasm, it has not
> developed as I hoped it would. I hoped for a space where engineers, social
> scientists and advocates could work together to research and understand the
> issues. Instead we moved quickly to giving guidelines and considerations,
> sometimes seeming more like an advocacy group than the collaborative
> research effort I had hoped for. We have also not followed up on our
> recommendations to gain evidence of their value. I think we have done
> extremely well at forming well founded hypotheses, but also feel we have
> not moved much beyond that with any measured evidence of the impact of our
> work.
>
> I acknowledge that this is largely my fault as a co-chair. Of late I have
> found myself doubting our premise, approach, and even, at times, our goals.
> I feel that I need to go back and rethink the problem. This is not a good
> attitude for a co-chair to have. As the group seems to find positive value
> in the work being done, the group should have co-chairs who feel the same
> way. I wish you all the best but do not think I am any longer the person to
> co-chair.
>
> Eventually, if I can find funding, I hope to pick up a research thread
> within human rights and internet technology as a research topic. I will
> probably also focus on the techno-policy aspects of implementation and
> deployment rather than only the a-priori attributes of technical artifacts.
> I expect that this will be probably end up out of scope for the work of
> this group, but time will tell. I do plan to keep following the work of the
> RG.
>
> I want to thank Colin and prior IRSG chairs for the opportunity to co-lead
> this group, to thank Mallory for the collaboration over the past few years,
> and to all of you for putting up with me for all these years.
>
> Best regards,
> avri
>
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