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