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“How do we ensure technology makes our lives better?” Tech Mirror: Reflecting on technology and society with Johanna Weaver explores how technology impacts our lives: the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. Technology is made by humans. When we refocus on this foundational truth, it opens the possibility that technology can be made differently. Questions about how we might shape technology differently are not just “technical” questions. The answers to these questions go to the very core of the fabric our societies. Just as there is a variety of diverse voices involved in the development of health policy, or national security policy, we need more people to actively engage in tech policy discussions. Through interviews with the movers and shapers, and analysis by experts and opinionated guests, this podcast will empower you to participate in policy discussions to shape the technologies that will shape our future.
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Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
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/alicedawkins
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