Past events
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Friday, April 21, 2023 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Apps now harvest so much of our data, from our locations and movements, our shopping habits, even for some women - their fertility. What are the privacy implications of capturing this much bodily information? Burning Platforms speaks with academic Katharine Kemp about her work tracking the data-harvesting of fertility apps.Special guest:
- Dr. Katharine Kemp, Senior Lecturer Faculty Law & Justice, UNSW
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director, Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday at 1pm AEDT.
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Friday, March 31, 2023 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
With a new focus on protecting children online as part of an evolution of the Privacy Act, rights activist Chloe Shorten joins our panel to look at the case for using new and existing laws to define and enforce the rights of minors.Special guest:
- Chloe Shorten, Director Alfred Health and Industry Funds Services, Ambassador Foyer Foundation
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director, Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday at 1pm AEDT.
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Friday, March 17, 2023 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
With the first major review of the Australian Privacy Act in 40 years reaching end-game, we unpack the state of events, and discuss a new report looking at how tick-a-box consent is undermining our freedom and privacy.Special guest:
- Chandni Gupta, Digital Policy Director at the Consumer Policy Research Centre
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Josh Taylor, Technology Reporter, Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday.
A reminder email will be sent one hour before the webinar begins to everyone who has registered.
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Friday, March 03, 2023 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
After the string of hacks in late 2022 the government has developed a new online identity wallet.What is the logic behind it? Will it provide better privacy for citizens? And should we trust government with our data anyway?Special guest:
- Ed Santow, Human Technology Institute at The University of Technology, Sydney
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday.
A reminder email will be sent one hour before the webinar begins to everyone who has registered.
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Friday, November 25, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Twitter is imploding before our eyes under Elon Musk, Meta is shedding staff and stock prices, and the crypto winter freezes out more people as FTX collapses. Is this the end of the (Big Tech) world as we know it? And are we all feeling fine? What will happen next?
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday.
A reminder email will be sent one hour before the webinar begins to everyone who has registered.
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Friday, November 11, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
As we move deeper into the new phases of the internet should we be building in guardrails and redlines around this new technology? And even if we should, can we? We deep dive into the metaverse with the Founder of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance.
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guest:
- Dr. Catriona Wallace, Founder of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday.
A reminder email will be sent one hour before the webinar begins to everyone who has registered.
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Friday, October 28, 2022 at 12:30 PM
ZoomWebinars
*SPECIAL TIME OF 12:30PM AEDT*
This week, as part of the 2022 NetThing Internet Governance Conference, Burning Platforms will ask - "Do we need to build our resilience against a worsening tech world, or should we design a better one?"
As the tech harms pile up and change us and our society, we deep dive into a new book 'Disconnect - why we get pushed to extremes online and how to stop it' which showcases online conspiracy theorists, freedom fighters, trolls, screen addicts and more and we will unpack whether our current tech landscape is inevitable or if there's a better way forward.
With our panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
- Carla Wilshire, Founder of Centre for Digital Wellbeing
And special guest:
- Jordan Guiao, Author of new book 'Disconnect - why we get pushed to extremes online and how to stop it'
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, October 14, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
The future of transportation is abuzz with disruption, from ride-sharing to electric vehicles to AI traffic flows. This week, Burning Platforms asks - will these build transport systems for the better or worse?
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guest:
- Paris Marx, Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation, and host of 'Tech Won't Save Us'
Once you RSVP with your details you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join on Friday at 1pm AEDT.
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Friday, September 30, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
The Centre for Responsible Technology’s fortnightly catch up on the politics of technology looks at the huge data breach at Optus, and asks whether this breach is a feature or a bug of a world where mass data collection has now been normalised.
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guest:
- Kat Gledhill-Tucker, Board Member of Electronic Frontiers Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday.
A reminder email will be sent one hour before the webinar begins to everyone who has registered.
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Friday, September 16, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Burning Platforms goes under Big Tech’s hood with new research into the increased opacity of online advertising - and the impact of that secrecy on public discourse.
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guests:
- Nicholas Carah, Associate Professor at University of Queensland
- Aimee Brownbill, Senior Research and Policy Advisor at Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday.
A reminder email will be sent one hour before the webinar begins to everyone who has registered.
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Friday, September 02, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
With a proliferation of wellness technologies, the human mind is emerging as the latest frontier in the spread of tech solutionism.
This week’s Burning Platforms digs deep into a new report ‘Digital Futures in the Mind’ which looks at how algorithmic solutions can have both a positive and negative impact on mental health.
Our special guest is report co-author Dr. Piers Gooding from Melbourne University Law School.
With our regular panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday.
A reminder email will be sent one hour before the webinar begins to everyone who has registered.
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Friday, August 19, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
The Centre for Responsible Technology’s fortnightly catch up on the politics of technology. This week we speak with futurist Maria Farrell about the power dynamics of tech advocacy and her ‘duty of hope’.
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday.
A reminder email will be sent one hour before the webinar begins to everyone who has registered.
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Friday, August 05, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Where are the progressive fault lines in digital rights?Burning Platforms will be joined new Greens senator and spokesperson for Digital Rights & IT, Senator David Shoebridge, to get his take on a packed legislative agenda that includes privacy reform, online safety and AI regulation.Burning Platforms is the Centre for Responsible Technology’s fortnightly catch up on the politics of technology
With our regular panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizze O'Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guest:
Senator David Shoebridge, Australian Greens spokesperson for Digital Rights and IT
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday.
A reminder email will be sent one hour before the webinar begins to everyone who has registered.
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Friday, July 22, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
The Centre for Responsible Technology’s fortnightly catch up on the politics of technology.
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O'Shea, Digital Rights Watch Chair
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guest Ellen Broad, ANU School of Cybernetics and a member of the Australian Government's Data Advisory Council.
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, July 08, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Burning Platforms: Home Truths - Airbnb’s War On Housing Affordability
The Centre for Responsible Technology’s fortnightly catch up on the politics of technology. This week, Burning Platforms dives deep into the impact of home-sharing platform Air BnB on the property market with Trish Burt, convenor of Neighbours Not Strangers.
Trish has been fighting a one-woman war against the impact Airbnb on local communities for years, calling out policies that privilege the interests of property owners over renters and undermine local communities.With our regular panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Samantha Floreani, Digital Rights Watch campaigner
- Carla Wilshire, Centre for Digital Wellbeing founder
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, June 24, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
The Centre for Responsible Technology’s fortnightly catch up on the politics of technology this week will dive deep into the risk of unfettered AI following the release last week of a major report regarding the use of Facial Recognition Technology in Australia.
With our panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Samantha Floreani, Digital Rights Watch campaigner
- Carla Wilshire, Centre for Digital Wellbeing founder
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
and special guest Ed Santow, former Human Rights Commissioner.
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, June 10, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
The Centre for Responsible Technology’s fortnightly catch up on the politics of technology.
This week's Burning Platforms will introduce ‘Civility’ - a new collaborative platform designed to create better public engagement.
Join us at 1pm on Friday June 10th for a discussion with regular panelists Centre for Responsible Technology Director Peter Lewis and Digital Rights Chair Lizzie O’Shea, as well as The Australian's Technology Editor David Swan and introducing special guest, Civility co-founder Nicholas Davis.
With our regular panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O’Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- and new panelist David Swan, Technology Editor at The Australian
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, May 13, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
The Centre for Responsible Technology’s fortnightly catch up on the politics of technology.
In our last Burning Platforms before election day we will run the rule over the policies being offered up by the major parties. Coke v Pepsi? Or are there bigger ideas in play?With our regular panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O’Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, April 29, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
The Centre for Responsible Technology’s fortnightly catch up on the politics of technology
Humans embrace technology with a child-like optimism, but what are the threats Artificial Intelligence poses our society if its impacts are not thought through?
Burning Platforms dives deep into the amorality of AI with a special discussion with Professor Toby Walsh, author of the new book ‘Machines Behaving Badly’.With our regular panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O’Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Thursday, April 14, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
**Special Easter time: 1pm AEST, Thursday, April 14 2022**On this week’s burning Platforms we dive deep into digital addiction: are we being played? And what can we do to get ourselves off the bad stuff?Burning Platforms is the Centre for Responsible Technology’s fortnightly catch up on the politics of technology
With our regular panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O’Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guest Carla Wilshire, founder of Centre for Digital Wellbeing.
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, April 01, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
The Centre for Responsible Technology’s fortnightly catch up on the power and politics of Big Tech.
After turning to new technology in a public health crisis we now face critical questions in what a new surveillance normal looks like.Special guest Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran from Reset joins the panel to ask whether we are ready to learn the lessons of 9/11 before a new tech paradigm takes hold.With our regular panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O’Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, March 18, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
The Centre for Responsible Technology’s regular catch up on the politics of technology this week dives deep into threats to the World Wide Web from the current geo-political conflicts.
Former president of ICANN Paul Twomey will outline how competing models of state control over online communications are challenging the very essence of the internet.
With our regular panelists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O’Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, March 04, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Reminder: True Lies: Disinformation in an Election Year at 1pm today
Last chance to RSVP this morning to join us for "True Lies: Disinformation in an Election Year".
As the Federal Election approaches amid heightened geo-political tensions, Burning Platforms looks at a ground-breaking attempt to understand how political actors game the social media algorithms to deliver targeted disinformation.
We will dive in deep with Timothy Graham, who is tracking online disinformation in the run-up to the 2022 poll through an ARC-funded DECRA project: Combating Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour on Social Media (2022-2025).
Join regular panellists Director for the Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology Peter Lewis and Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea along with Guardian Australia’s Josh Taylor for our fortnightly discussion on the power and politics of technology.
Chew over the latest in tech politics and power with our fortnightly regular panel
Regular panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O’Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Josh Taylor, Guardian Australia
Special guest:
Dr Timothy Graham, ARC DECRA Fellow
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join
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Friday, March 04, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
True Lies: Disinformation in an Election Year
UPDATE: Unfortunately, Timothy Graham is unwell, so we will be speaking with his QUT colleague Professor Dan Angus, who has kindly stepped in.
As the Federal Election approaches amid heightened geo-political tensions, Burning Platforms looks at a ground-breaking attempt to understand how political actors game the social media algorithms to deliver targeted disinformation.
We will dive in deep with Timothy Graham, who is tracking online disinformation in the run-up to the 2022 poll through an ARC-funded DECRA project: Combating Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour on Social Media (2022-2025).
Join regular panellists Director for the Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology Peter Lewis and Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea along with Guardian Australia’s Josh Taylor for our fortnightly discussion on the power and politics of technology.
Chew over the latest in tech politics and power with our fortnightly regular panel
Regular panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O’Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Josh Taylor, Guardian Australia
Special guest:
Professor Dan Angus, QUTRSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, February 18, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
We mark 12 months from the Facebook takedown to review the progress of the News Media Bargaining Code with Sydney University’s Professor Terry Flew.
Has the code achieved its objectives? Who’s missed out? And should it be a global model for managing the relationship between journalism and the platforms.
Regular panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O’ Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guest:
Professor Terry Flew, Sydney University
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, February 04, 2022 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
While Australians spent the summer searching for RATs, a hastily convened federal government inquiry was holding public hearings about online safety, as the Morrison Government amps up its war with the Big Tech companies.
Burning Platforms is back for 2022 to dissect the inquiry with deputy chair Tim Watts MP to ask whether this is the way to tame Big Tech and how issues of Big Tech power will play out in the lead up to the federal election. He’ll join our regular panel of Centre For Responsible technology directer Peter Lewis, Digital Rights chair Lizzie O’Shea and Guardian Australia managing director Dan Stinton to chew over the latest in tech politics and power.
Regular panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O’ Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guest:
Tim Watts, Shadow Assistant Minister for Communications and Cyber-Security
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, December 03, 2021 at 10:00 AM
ZoomWebinars
**NOTE - SPECIAL TIME OF 10AM AEDT**
Burning Platforms is a fortnightly virtual forum covering the latest in technology news, events and policy.
This fortnight we ask 'Whatever happened to the free web?'
The internet promised new ways to challenge power and privilege, so how has it become a tool to promote division and entrench despots?
Join us as we dive deep with special guest Elaine Pearson from Human Rights Watch into the ways tech platforms have become wilful partners in oppression around the globe.
This and more in the always busy world of tech!
Join our regular panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O' Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guest:
- Elaine Pearson, Australia Director Human Rights Watch
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, November 19, 2021 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Burning Platforms is a fortnightly virtual forum covering the latest in technology news, events and policy.
This fortnight we ask 'What's the Go with DuckDuckGo?'
The dominance of Google’s data-hungry search engine is under the spotlight in Australia, with live inquiries on its role in the Ad-tech industry and anti-competitive deals which embed the search engine in smart devices. But DuckDuckGo has proven that you can build a search engine that's not based on user surveillance. In this week's Burning Platforms we’ll chat with DuckDuckGo’s Senior Public Policy Manager to get an idea of what competition in search could actually look like.
This and more in the always busy world of tech!
Join our regular panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O' Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guest:
- Katie McInnis, Senior Public Policy Manager, DuckDuckGo
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, November 05, 2021 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Burning Platforms is a fortnightly virtual forum covering the latest in technology news, events and policy.
This fortnight we ask 'Will Technology Really Save the Planet?'
As the world's leaders debate the future of the planet, technology is being put forward as the solution to the earth's climate woes. But will smart energy networks, AI and Bitcoin really save us? As part of the annual NetThing internet governance conference, this week's Burning Platforms dives deep into the environmental impacts of technology.
This and more in the always busy world of tech!
Join our regular panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O' Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
And special guest:
- Benedetta Brevini, academic and author of 'Is AI Good for the Planet?'
RSVP using the NetThing conference registration here. (This will also give you access to the full two-day program).
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Friday, October 22, 2021 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Burning Platforms is a fortnightly virtual forum covering the latest in technology news, events and policy.
This fortnight we look at platforms vs. the nation-state. Platforms are acting like nation-states and governments are trying to become platforms, but are they both getting it wrong? The idea of the ’platform’ has come to dominate our notion of the internet - that there are corporate networks that we stand on to support us in accessing cyberspace. Governments are employing the same construct - that the role of the state is to provide a base for citizens. What does this mean for individuals?
This and more in the always busy world of tech!
Join our regular panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O' Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guest:
- Jathan Sadowski, Research Fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab and the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making in Society at Monash University.
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, October 08, 2021 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Burning Platforms is a fortnightly virtual forum covering the latest in technology news, events and policy.
This fortnight we explore privacy online. With a review of the Privacy Act expected within days, we take a deep dive into the legal frameworks for entrenching digital data rights into Australian law. From informed consent to data matching and security, is the traditional approach to privacy applicable to the online world? This and more in the always busy world of tech!
Join our regular panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O' Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch
And special guests:
- Anna Johnston, Director at Salinger Privacy
- David Swan, journalist at The Australian
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join on Friday
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Friday, September 24, 2021 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Tech Talk is a fortnightly virtual forum covering the latest in technology news, events and policy.
This fortnight we explore algorithms that rule Australia, how we are increasingly outsourcing policy and governance to algorithms. We will look at how facial recognition, robo-planning and robo-welfare are entering our policy environments. This and more in the always busy world of tech!
Join our regular panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O' Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch, and
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
And special guests:
- Ed Santow, Industry Professor Responsible Technology at UTS and former Human Rights Commissioner
- Marie Johnson, CEO of the Centre for Digital Business
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join the Tech Talk on Friday
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Friday, September 10, 2021 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Tech Talk is a fortnightly virtual forum covering the latest in technology news, events and policy.
This fortnight we explore the line between safe and unsafe content online. How does adult and explicit content play into this? Looking at the content platform OnlyFans and the UK/AU Online Safety Acts, we unpack the complex questions around regulation of adult content online. This and more in the always busy world of tech!
Join our regular panellists:
- Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology
- Lizzie O' Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch, and
- Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
and special guest
- Professor Kath Albury, co-Leader of the Digital Inclusion Program,
Swinburne's Social Innovation Research Institute (SIRI)
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join the Tech Talk on Friday
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Friday, August 27, 2021 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Tech Talk is a fortnightly virtual forum covering the latest in technology news, events and policy.
This fortnight we look at sustainable cities and how to build ethical digital frameworks for connected cities, Amazon's excessive data harvesting practices and Google sponsoring journalists.
Join our regular panellists Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology and Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia as well as special guests Lucie Krahulcova from Digital Rights Watch and Simon Carter from Sustainable Digitisation Project
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join the Tech Talk on Friday
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Friday, August 13, 2021 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
Tech Talk is a fortnightly virtual forum covering the latest in technology news, events and policy.
On this fortnight’s Tech Talk we discuss: the good, the bad and the ugly of data collection - the census, vaccination passports and digital IDs.
Join our regular panellists Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology, Lizzie O’ Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch and Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join the Tech Talk on Friday
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Friday, July 30, 2021 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
On this fortnight’s Tech Talk we discuss:
- What is the metaverse and why is Mark Zuckerberg obsessed with it
- Spying on individuals using their location data and spying globally using tech like Pegasus
- and more in the always busy world of tech!
Join our regular panellists Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology, Lizzie O’ Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch and Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join the Tech Talk on Friday
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Friday, July 16, 2021 at 01:00 PM
ZoomWebinars
On this fortnight’s Tech Talk we discuss:
- the growth of digital surveillance in Australia including with the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment Bill;
- President Biden’s executive order against tech monopolies;
- and more in the always busy world of tech!
Join our regular panellists Peter Lewis, Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology, Lizzie O’ Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch and Dan Stinton, Managing Director of Guardian Australia
RSVP with your details and you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to join the Tech Talk on Friday