Our top picks for RightsCon 2021

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not the holidays, it’s RightsCon season!

RightsCon is the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age, hosted by our friends at Access Now. It will take place 7-11 June and it will, once again, be entirely virtual.

But, with over 500 sessions across 20 program streams in 5 days… it’s a lot. Decisions, decisions! Plus, if you’re in Australia, things get tricky with timezones. The program can be daunting, so we’ve gone through and picked out our favourites, all tailored to a *reasonable* Australia-based sleep cycle.

But first, we want to tell you about the session Digital Rights Watch is running!

On Tuesday 8th of June at 2pm AEST / 12pm AWST, we’re hosting our session on: **Rebalancing the Internet Economy: A closer look at Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code. **

We won’t spend too long recapping what happened in the bargaining code, rather we will be looking at what local internet economies look like on the global web and how rebalancing the local and global economies could help facilitate a more equitable system!

Lucie’s Top Picks

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  Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) our saviour from environmental catastrophe.
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  Rebalancing the Internet Economy: A closer look at Australia's News Media Bargaining Code
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  Litigating COVID-19: contact tracing apps, immunity passports, disinformation and more.
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  How to respond to advanced digital threats to civil society?
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  Aligning content moderation with human rights principles
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  Creating Engaging Campaigns: A holistic methodology to create impactful campaigns
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  Re-envisioning digital education: The pandemic's fallout and the future of inclusive education
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  What comes after Digital Identity? Digital Public Goods and Data Infrastructures
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  Reporting on Digital Rights Beyond Silicon Valley
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Sam’s Top Picks

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  Inside the black box: Making public-sector algorithms accountable to citizens and communities
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  Alternative Frameworks for Sexual Content Moderation
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  Co-creating a feminist internet: feminst discourse and solutions<br />to online violence and hatred based on gender, race, caste and other indicies
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  Data Protection from the inside: value-based data practice for civil society
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  "Hey you, stop filming!" Defending smartphone witnessing and the Right<br />to Record globally. What do we need to do?
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  We Keep Us Safe: An Indigenized Guide to Reproductive Justice and Cyber Safety.
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  <strong>'</strong>Choose your own Ad'venture!' A strategy session on how digital<br />violence affects queer people, and our strategies of resistance.
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  Fireside chat: Lina al-Hathloul, Wafa Mustafa, and Marwa Fatafta
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  Surveillance capitalism meets extractivism: how ads online are killing the planet
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