FODI Digital 09-10 MAY 2020. Presented by The Ethics Centre, FODI Digital is a digital conversation series with leading thinkers and commentators on today’s dangerous realities, live streamed for free on the FODI website.

The series of online conversations takes inspiration from the original FODI 2020 theme of ‘Dangerous Realities’.

States Of Surveillance
09 MAY 2020 – 4:00PM AEST
SPEAKERS: Angie Abdilla, Ellen Broad, Mark Pesce
Chair: Matt Beard

0:01:20 – TALK BEGINS (Skips Intro)

 
The threat of Covid-19 presents a strong argument for digital surveillance and close monitoring of data. We’re told tracking saves lives and good Australians will install the app.

Yet many people are sceptical about more surveillance. With so many well-known scandals, including by government, will public health be a victim of our growing distrust of technology? Or is this the start of a new normal when it comes to government surveillance? Are we building a genie we can’t put back in the bottle?

Angie Abdilla is a Palawa, (Trawlwoolway) woman who works with Indigenous cultural knowledges to inform placemaking, service design and the resulting deep technologies for both the public and private sectors. Her published research on Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence was presented at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Angie and Old Ways, New have published the co-edited the book, Decolonising the Digital: Technology as Cultural Practice, and co-founded the pioneering international Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence symposium. She previously lectured and led studio’s on Human/Technology inter-Relations and Futuring methodologies at the University of Technology Sydney and continues to publicly present on the topic.

Angie is a Fellow of The Ethics Centre and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Technology Sydney. Ellen Broad has provided independent advice on data and digital issues to governments, UN bodies and multinational tech companies.

She has testified before committees of the European and Australian parliaments, written articles for New Scientist and The Guardian, spoken at SXSW and been a guest of ABC Radio National programs Big Ideas and Future Tense. Ellen designed a board game about data with ODI CEO Jeni Tennison that is currently being played in nineteen countries.

Mark Pesce invented the technology for 3D on the Web, has written seven books, was for seven years a judge on the ABC’s The New Inventors, founded postgraduate programs at USC and AFTRS, holds an honorary appointment at Sydney University, is a multiple-award-winning columnist for The Register, pens another column for IEEE Spectrum, and is professional futurist and public speaker. Pesce hosts both the award-winning ‘The Next Billion Seconds’ and ‘This Week in Startups Australia’ podcasts.

While we believe in freedom of speech, the views and opinions expressed by the speakers are not necessarily the views of The Ethics Centre and our partners.