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Decolonising Digital Rights with EDRi and DFF

The Digital Freedom Fund and its partner European Digital Rights (EDRi) are in the initial phases of a new initiative to begin a decolonising process for the digital rights field. This video explains what that means. Read more: https://digitalfreedomfund.org/decolo... https://edri.org/our-work/decolonisin... Full text: Digital technologies offer us incredible opportunities, but it’s easy to miss the major risks and harms they perpetuate, including their tendency to amplify discrimination and inequality. This is fundamental to our work as European Digital Rights (EDRi). Along with many others in our movement, we believe that big changes need to be made in the field of digital rights to understand these harms and build necessary alternative futures. When looking at the digital rights field in Europe, it is clear that many groups – including people of colour, migrants, disabled people, queer and trans communities, and working class people – are simply not in the room. We think that this undeniably impacts our capacity to defend the digital rights of everybody in our societies. So, last year, in partnership with the Digital Freedom Fund we started a decolonizing process for the European digital rights field. What does this mean? Well, this past year, we spoke to more than 50 different people from digital rights organisations and social justice movements across Europe about what a decolonised field could look like. Should look like. And how we might get there. Then In December 2020 we gathered together more than 30 organisations working in social justice and digital rights to create a clear vision for: where do we want to be in 20 years time? The digital rights field we are envisioning is one that is more representative, better connected, and more prepared to understand how digital rights are linked to our broader social context and societal structures. We are currently in a design and mapping phase, co-creating a long-term “decolonising programme” to transform the field of digital rights. We do hope more people will join us in this important work and to make necessary and radical changes to how we understand and protect our digital rights. Animation by Blanche Illustrates and TEMJAM