Our Vision
Our vision is for a digital world where all humanity can thrive, and where diversity and creativity flourishes. To ensure this, our digital world must be underpinned by equality, freedom and established human rights principles. Its evolution and future must be guided and driven by the interests of all people and the environments we live in.
Digital Rights Watch exists to defend and promote this vision – to ensure fairness, freedoms and fundamental rights for all people who engage in the digital world.
Our mission is to ensure that Australians are equipped, empowered and enabled to uphold their digital rights. We believe that digital rights are human rights which see their expression online.
Privacy & Security
We believe in the fundamental right to privacy for all.
Personal Information & Data Rights
We believe governments, corporations and organisations should uphold basic privacy rights.
Power, Access & Technology
We advocate for increased transparency, accountability and oversight over the use of data.
Journalism & Information Flows
We believe in the value of strong, effective & accountable journalism.
Our guiding principles
Accountable
We are trustworthy, honest and have integrity. Our funding sources will be public domain and we will be transparent on how our financial expenditure and work contributes to our purpose.
Solidarity
Our work will be driven by the interests of the public, and we will work in partnership with civil society and grassroots initiatives that share our vision.
Collaboration
We recognise there are other organisations working in the space of defending and promoting digital rights, and we will strive to work in partnership, in a non-competitive way with others.
Lean approach
We are committed to implementing projects and activities in an efficient and cost-effective way, and incorporating lessons learned to improve our impact.
Innovation
We will aim to push boundaries and use tactics and strategies that are ‘outside-the-box’. We will work with artists and the creative community to help drive positive change.
Global to local
We recognise that the digital world is borderless and we will work with allies from around the world to contribute to a global digital rights movement and maximise the local impact of our work.
Digital Rights Watch acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land and community. We acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People as the true custodians of this land that was never ceded and pay our respects to their cultures, and to elders past, present and emerging.
Unless otherwise noted, all content on this website and otherwise produced by Digital Rights Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Digital Rights Watch Inc. is an incorporated association in Victoria and operates nationally as a registered charity. ABN 90 509 129 914
