The Social and Moral Imperative to Act

Johanna speaks with Alice Dawkins, Executive Director of Reset.Tech Australia, an independent, non-partisan policy initiative wrestling with questions about online harms & safety, digital information markets, democracy and tech accountability.  In a wide-ranging conversation, the pair discuss topics including: Alice’s experience in Myanmar working with public interest lawyers involved in that country’s pro-democracy movement Reset’s research on young people and privacy online in Australia  Social media platform monitoring during the Voice referendum campaign Truth in political advertising  The federal government’s plans to introduce new laws to provide the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) with powers to combat online misinformation and disinformation The limitation of co-regulatory approaches to tech policymaking  Tech exceptionalism and accountability  The importance of securing access to platform data for researchers and civil society experts     Relevant Links: Reset.Tech Australia https://au.reset.tech/ Reset’s report on Young People and Online Privacy https://au.reset.tech/news/report-realising-young-people-s-rights-in-the-digital-environment/   Exposure draft of the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/media/publications/communications-legislation-amendment-combatting-misinformation-and-disinformation-bill-2023  John Naughton’s columns (professor of the public understanding of technology at the Open University and author of From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet) https://www.theguardian.com/profile/johnnaughton    Logic(s) magazine https://logicmag.io/    Follow: Alice Dawkins Twitter https://twitter.com/adawko  Alice Dawkins Linkedin https://au.linkedin.com/in/alicedawkinsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.