Blogathon
Rights have been on everyone's agenda lately. From the political revolutions that shook the Middle East and North Africa which sustained their motivation through an universal appeal to them, to questions of privacy, openness and access to information in the post-wikileaks world, human rights as a political, social and developmental framework for discussion is very much active.
We want to get your opinions on the subject, in a cre...ative way: On March 21st, on the occasion of the Human rights celebration in South Africa, we are having a blogging marathon, or blogathon. What this means is that all of us at the Digital Natives project and the greater community will be blogging about a single topic, at the same time. The blog topic will be: "I believe that _______ should be a right in the digital age"
The right to lurk
The right to lurk. Here we go blogathon: my right of the digital age is the right to lurk. I was reluctant to write this post, because I have been so busy lately that I didn't even imagine having the mental capacity to think of a right. But the right to lurk: that put me right back here. For Fieke writes eloquently about the right to unplug and Nishant about the right to be many, and I couldn't but nod my head silently (and get slowly dragged into thoughts of rights).
Maybe we have lost the right to not-know.
Therefore, we empower our right to information. This is the digital age. The world is one village.
I believe that free music should be a right in the digital age
It’s a dicey subject. Napster dealt with it and we all watched to see what would happen to our freedom to access the music we loved. And when it was over we were left in the rubble of copyright issues, intellectual property debates and a growing mechanism of workarounds. The internet is a sub world, still young, where people practice their most basic animal right of open access…to all…for everything. Even if it cannibalizes on the people who made ‘everything’ exist in the first place.
And who said that Gender does not matter in social Change?
“We are tired of hearing about Gender, What’s wrong with you Women?” These are some of the words that many people echo when you mention GENDER. As if gender means WOMEN!!
The right to be many
One of the fundamental units of any right based discourse, is the individual. The universe of rights revolves around the unquestioned idea of how each one of us is a single person. Sure we are allowed to have different personalities (if you have too many of them, you are also allowed to be commited in an asylum) and we are allowed to have different identities (Sexual, Religious, Political etc.). However, the person, the individual, the citizen, remains a singular, corporeal body that can be i...
The right to be read and heard by anyone
I like to be really optimistic and assume that huge progressive world-wide movements in this decade will successfully fight for net neutrality and the right for every person in the world to have access to the Internet. Having overcome that battle, the next challenge would be to promote the right for everyone to be read and heard over the Internet despite all language barriers and, thus, also enforce the technological mechanisms that allow that to happen.
New articleRights in the Digital Age: Freedom of Access
Think about this: we talk about digital natives and rights, flying to the moon and back, space-age technology and what not, but the problem still remains that a majority of us do not have access to technologies that connect us with ‘that’ digital world.
There's more to Digital Literacy than just mere skills - The right to digital literacy
I believe that Digital Literacy should be a right in the digital age. Digital Literacy, as perceived by many, scopes the basics of how to use different technologies and digital tools but I would argue that this is just the tip of the iceberg. I believe that the ‘digital’ is a mindset and not necessarily a thing. I base this belief on the fact that the ‘digital’ has changed the way we perceive things, the way we carry out different tasks and processes and to a large extent, the way w...
It's the Bandwidth
As someone who grew up breathing technology, my mind and fingers shoot up with rage faster than a dial-up connection loading Google's homepage whenever I find myself disconnected. And those YouTube videos that "isn't available in your country"? *nerve throbbing*
I believe that we have the right to hack.
Hackers? sounds like a bad term nowadays thanks to hollywood movies and the computer criminal myth, in general culture hackers are people who can get into your computer, steal information, get your bank acounts put you viruses and more evil stuff. But it was not always this way. The term comes from train modeling at MIT, they coined the term hackers to themself to identify the people that modified and tweaked the trains for better performance or appeal. Later on the term passed to the c...