Tina Power • ALT Advisory | Make. Change. Possible.

Associate Director – JHB.

TINA POWER.

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Est. 2017. JHB – CPT – NBO.

Tina is an Associate Director at ALT Advisory and a public interest lawyer, researcher, and strategist.

Tina's overview

Tina's recent work

PUBLIC LAW & POLICY

Developing laws and policies that empower people, promote human rights, and enable a sustainable and resilient future.

STRATEGY & FUNDRAISING

Supporting civil society organisations and social enterprises with registration, strategy, structuring, and fundraising.

AI & EMERGENT TECHNOLOGY IN AFRICA

Safeguarding and promoting human rights in the development of artificial intelligence and emergent technologies.

EQUALITY & INCLUSION

Working to foster substantive equality, meaningful inclusion, and the best interests of children.

INTERNATIONAL LAW & DEVELOPMENT

Promoting multilateralism, development, participation, and activism at the regional and international levels.

STRATEGIC & TEST CASE LITIGATION

Enabling changes in laws, policies, and administrative systems which are beneficial to the public, in association with Power & Associates Inc. *

INFORMATION RIGHTS & DATA GOVERNANCE

Protecting and promoting privacy, free speech, and access to information on- and offline.

CLIMATE JUSTICE & SUSTAINABILITY

Building climate-resilience through digital transformation and climate and environmental justice.

WEB DEVELOPMENT & HOSTING

Assisting civil society organisations and social enterprises to tell their story, enhance their reach, and get connected.

ABOUT TINA.

Overview
Tina is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Legal Practice Council. She holds B.A., LL.B. (with Distinction), and LL.M. in Human Rights Advocacy and Litigation degrees from the University of Witwatersrand.

Before joining ALT Advisory, Tina received the Section27-Students for Law and Social Justice Fellowship where she worked on matters relating to the right to basic education (2016). Thereafter, Tina completed her articles of clerkship at the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg (2017-18) as a Bertha Foundation Justice Fellow working on public law matters. Following her articles, Tina clerked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2019, Justice Nonkosi Mhlantla). Tina presently also acts as an Associate Director at Power & Associates (2020-).

Tina focuses on public law and information rights, with an interest in constitutional law and democratic institutions, children’s rights, online harms reduction, and equality and non-discrimination.

Tina has a keen interest in understanding how technology and the law can collectively be used to strengthen institutions, reduce harm online, and promote equality.
Professional Affiliations
Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, (with Right of Appearance) admitted on 10 March 2020.

Member of the Legal Practice Council (Membership Number: 47754).
Academic Qualifications
B.A., LL.B. (with Distinction), LL.M. in Human Rights Advocacy and Litigation (University of the Witwatersrand).

Currently completing an MSc in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford.

Children’s Human Rights – An Interdisciplinary Introduction, MOOC (University of Geneva).
Judicial Clerkships
Justice Nonkosi Mhlantla at the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2019).
Recent Publications & Presentations
Presented at the Internet Governance Forum on the intersection of disinformation and other online harms (2022).

Presented at Media Monitoring Africa’s Media Freedom Week on Unpacking Artificial Intelligence: Freedom of Expression, Media, Access to Information and Privacy (2022).

Presented at a Web Rangers gathering during Child Protection Week focusing on what privacy means for children (2022).

Tina Power, ‘New law protects women against online abuse,’ (22 February 2022).

William Bird and Tina Power, ‘Social media needs Rapid Information and Communications Task Team,’ (17 July 2022) Daily Maverick.

Avani Singh & Tina Power, ‘Understanding the privacy rights of the African child in the digital era‘, (2021) 21(1) African Human Rights Law Journal 99-125.

Presented at the Centre for Human Rights Webinar on children’s rights to privacy in the digital sphere in Africa (2021)

Presented at the Stockholm Internet Forum 2021 on the COVID-19 and the gender digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa (2021).

Presented at the Lancaster University Law Conference 2021 on Law in the Transforming World focusing on AI and Gender-Based Violence (2021).

Presented at the Media Monitoring Africa and Goethe-Institute workshop on digital citizens (2021).

Presented at MozFest 2021 on AI and Gender-Based Violence (2021).

Presented at the University of Johannesburg Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Development Studies on LGBTQI+ identities: challenges and possibilities – Freedom of (sexual) expression online – is content moderation an ally or an enemy? (2021).

Presented to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services on the Domestic Violence Amendment Bill (2020).

Contributed an article for the for the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms project on ‘The Gender Digital Divide and COVID-19: Towards feminist internet regulations in Southern Africa’ (2020).

Co-Author, Guruli et al., ‘Access Denied: Internet Access and the Right to Education in South Africa’ Report (29 September 2020).

Presented at a COVID-19 Privacy Webinar hosted by researchers from University of Cape Town (2020).

Presentation on Digital Security at a workshop for Cybercrimes Awareness week (2020).

Facilitated a webinar hosted by Media Monitoring Africa on disinformation, COVID-19, and elections in 2021 (2020).

Facilitated and hosted the Africa Consultations on the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation (2020).

Presented at a Covid-19 Privacy Webinar hosted by researchers and entrepreneurs from the University of Cape Town (2020).

Presentation at University of Pretoria on women as agents as ubuntu philosophy during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020).

Tina Power, ‘The Politics of Law: The Changing Role of Public Interest Litigation in the Search for Openness and Accountability’ (2018) University of the Witwatersrand LL.M Dissertation.

Presented at the South African Human Rights Commission Colloquium on access to education for undocumented learners (2018).

Presented at the National Consultation on Monitoring Goal 16 in South Africa hosted by the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum in partnership with the United Nation Development Program (2017)

Contributor, Basic Education Handbook, SECTION27 and others (2017).

33%

Percentage of annual profits allocated to pro bono and public interest projects.

200+27

Number of successfully completed advisory projects in 27 jurisdictions since 2017.

4000+

Number of collective pro bono and public interest hours in 2023.

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TINA’S RECENT WORK.

Ongoing projects
Undertaking an assessment of CSOs partnered with UNICEF to support a gender transformation approach to ending child marriage.

Developing a first-of-its-kind online platform providing accessible resources to victims and survivors of online gender-based violence and sexual harassment.

Working with the Centre for Human Rights to conduct a study assessing the impact of laws in addressing gender-based violence across African countries.

Preparing a training module for journalists on reporting on children in the media.
Previous projects
Collaborating on a gender analysis of digital transformation in South Africa.

Preparing a gender analysis and action plan to mainstream gender in the Joint Labour Migration Programme for Africa.

Preparing two joint written submissions on the proposed Domestic Violence Amendment Bill to South Africa’s National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces, with Research ICT Africa (RIA), Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), and Feministing while African.

Preparing an in-depth research report on the the legal status of children’s right to privacy in South Africa, Mauritius, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda.

Developing a strategic digital rights litigation toolkit for the Digital Freedom Fund (DFF).

Drafting a written submission to the Minister of Home Affairs on the Official Identity Management Policy for the Right2Know Campaign.

Preparing a research report reviewing the security, privacy, and inclusion implications of Covid-19 tracing apps in South Africa.

Assisting the Equal Education with information governance and regulatory compliance in terms of South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).

Supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) by facilitating consultations and public participation on the revised Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation.

Preparing an article for the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms (AfDec) Coalition on the need for feminist internet regulations in Southern Africa..

Preparing a written submission on behalf of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) on the revised draft General Comment No. 37 on Article 21 (right to peaceful assembly) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.