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The Digital Rights Movement in Myanmar is Growing - And EngageMedia Gets to be a Part of It! - EngageMedia
platform to discuss issues with different stakeholders. The topics tackled in the MDRF
reflect the current and emerging trends in and threats to digital rights in Myanmar:
surveillance, content restrictions, and lawful interception standards; freedom of
expression and hate speech; harassment of journalists; policy reform; right to
information; national identification; and privacy issues in the current laws. The MDRF
was also an opportunity for digital rights movements from across the region to learn
from each other — and to encourage the growth of the Myanmar digital rights
movement — with sessions that shared experiences around building social
movements on policy reform, and looking back on the digital rights movements in India,
the Philippines and Myanmar.
The MDRF also created a space where the participants could brainstorm what actions
to take to address the daunting digital rights issues in Myanmar. On the second day,
specifically, the participants formed themselves into groups to discuss specific action
ideas and initiatives:
Engaging Facebook on Hate Speech
Anti- Hate Speech campaign
Open data basics and awareness-raising
Law review towards policy reform
Campaign against the 66(d) arrests
Addressing online harassment of women and LGBT
Building the capacity of the youth on digital rights
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