Digital Rights Collective is an organisation with a group of activists, researchers and civic tech enthusiasts working to further digital rights in Myanmar.
We use research and community dialogues to inform our advocacy, campaigns, and innovations to improve access, harmony, freedom of expression, privacy, and safety on the internet.
Digital Rights Collective aims to create an empowered community in Myanmar, collectively furthering rights on the internet through safe space and progressively solving issues through innovations.
Our strategies for the activities are based on our in-house capacity on understanding users and community through dialogue, documenting, & research. Using a community-focused approach, we aim to act as a bridge among different community stakeholders as well as broader public through innovations.
Digital Rights Collective works in three areas: privacy & safety, digital cultures, and campaign.
The privacy & safety team aims to highlight issues of censorship and surveillance to improve dedicated privacy for different stakeholders as journalists, human rights defenders, activists, researchers, and civil society, and increase awareness of such key issues across the country. The team also aims to create safe space for the communities across the country by providing a platform to present, brainstorm, highlight the digital rights issues in the respected regions and the states.
Digital cultures team works on a diverse range of topics such as issues of hate-speech, disinformation, online harmony, safety, access, and digital literacy for the broader public to create a peaceful internet. We do that through gathering better insights on opportunities, challenges, risks, and obstacles on the internet culture using mixed method research. Using these intelligence, we innovate collaboratively to bridge gaps with new ideas and more effective approaches.
Digital Rights Collective also participates in broader campaigns and advocacy of the digital rights community in Myanmar using insights from our research activities.