Digital Rights Blogathon

Tags: Worldwide , Digital Natives
Additional tags: Blogathon; digital rigths

Last week, in light of the human rights celebration in South Africa, digital natives from different parts of the world have given use their view on the digital rights that need to be ensured in 20, 30 or even 50 years time. In this Blogathon they were asked to reflect on what should be right in the digital age.

The occasion was that they felt 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. With so much going on, what were their ideas and hopes for the future.

 

The Blogathon gives an eclectic mix of rights that trigger thought of new dilemma’s, issues and hopes that come up in the digital are. From the right to lurk, the right to be read and heard and the right to choose one’s identity.