Sunita Bose

Managing Director, Digital Industry Group Inc.

Sydney

Sunita is Managing Director of DIGI, the non-profit tech industry peak body that advocates for a thriving digital economy in Australia. DIGI’s members are Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Verizon Media, Redbubble, Linktree, Change.org and Gofundme. DIGI’s vision is a thriving Australian digitally-enabled economy that fosters innovation, a growing selection of digital products and services, and where online safety and privacy are protected. A leading advocate for the tech sector and the democratising power of the Internet, Sunita sits on the Australian Government’s Digital Experts Advisory Committee and her opinions have been published in The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian.

Sunita was previously the Head of Global Policy for the online petition platform Change.org, based in San Francisco. She developed the company’s Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Community Guidelines and policy infrastructure to manage harmful user-generated content, in areas such as bullying, hate speech, defamation, misinformation, data privacy and child protection. Before that, Sunita spent seven years working in a range of international and Australian advocacy and strategic communications roles at humanitarian aid agencies Oxfam and UNICEF, and has a Masters of Policy from the University of New South Wales.