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
| Date + Time (AEST) | Session Title |
| Tuesday 8th 10am | Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) our saviour from environmental catastrophe. |
| Tuesday 8th 2pm | Rebalancing the Internet Economy: A closer look at Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code |
| Tuesday 8th 7.30pm | Litigating COVID-19: contact tracing apps, immunity passports, disinformation and more. |
| Tuesday 8th 10pm | How to respond to advanced digital threats to civil society? |
| Tuesday 8th 11.15pm | Aligning content moderation with human rights principles |
| Wednesday 9th 4:30pm | Creating Engaging Campaigns: A holistic methodology to create impactful campaigns |
| Wednesday 9th 11pm | Re-envisioning digital education: The pandemic’s fallout and the future of inclusive education |
| Thursday 10th 6.45pm | What comes after Digital Identity? Digital Public Goods and Data Infrastructures |
| Thursday 10th 10.30pm | Reporting on Digital Rights Beyond Silicon Valley |
Sam’s Top Picks
| Date + Time (AEST) | Session Title |
| Tuesday 8th 6:15pm | Inside the black box: Making public-sector algorithms accountable to citizens and communities |
| Tuesday 8th 10pm | Alternative Frameworks for Sexual Content Moderation |
| Wednesday 9th 11:45am | Co-creating a feminist internet: feminst discourse and solutions to online violence and hatred based on gender, race, caste and other indicies |
| Wednesday 9th 4:30pm | Data Protection from the inside: value-based data practice for civil society |
| Wednesday 9th 9:45pm | “Hey you, stop filming!” Defending smartphone witnessing and the Right to Record globally. What do we need to do? |
| Thursday 10th 7:15am | We Keep Us Safe: An Indigenized Guide to Reproductive Justice and Cyber Safety. |
| Thursday 10th 6:45pm | ‘Choose your own Ad’venture!’ A strategy session on how digital violence affects queer people, and our strategies of resistance. |
| Thursday 10th 8pm | Fireside chat: Lina al-Hathloul, Wafa Mustafa, and Marwa Fatafta |
| Thursday 10th 9:15pm | Surveillance capitalism meets extractivism: how ads online are killing the planet |
