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an informed international discussion that reimagines our common technological future and charts the course toward meaningful digital rights for all.
An informed process enables reform.
We facilitate a progressive global progressive dialogue addressing the key issues raised by algorithmic governance. To the end, we work with engineers and scientists, academic experts, active and retired policymakers, and civil society organizations across North America, Europe, and, crucially, the Global South.
Through these exchanges, our goal is to empower civil society the world over to hold dominant business and political interests accountable, paving the way for a new digital social contract embodied by an international digital rights framework.
The time is right for this effort.
This is an unprecedented moment in our history, marked by the Covid19 crisis, its economic dislocations, threats to informed public discourse and electoral processes, and long-overdue attention toward racism and injustice within our societies. We must ensure that the increasing deployment of digital technologies and decision-making algorithms in employment, social welfare, public health, and policing do not tear at the fabric of society; amplifying inequity, discrimination, and polarization.
Open and Informed Discussion
Initiate: Digital Rights in Society prioritizes wide regional representation and a diversity of participant backgrounds and expertise to engage and empower researchers, experts, and advocacy organizations, prioritizing institutional partners from across the Global South.
A Balanced Exchange of Ideas
Initiate: Digital Rights in Society prioritizes wide regional representation and a diversity of participant backgrounds and expertise to engage and empower researchers, experts, and advocacy organizations, prioritizing institutional partners from across the Global South.
The impact of this process will derive from involving governments, civil society and advocacy groups, public policy thinkers, and academics from the outset, achieving progress through collaboration, exchange, and engagement on an equal footing.
Building Productive Relationships
This work relies on the cultivation of trust among key civil society members from an early stage, supporting them in discussions with key government officials and business interests. Further, as active public engagement translates into policymaking urgency, we will publicize our activities of our working groups, securing sustained attention and informing policy action.
Toward a Digital Rights Framework
Our long-term objective is to build a fully-fledged multi-stakeholder initiative that drives the intellectual and policy effort on the reform of the digital economy, developing and promoting policy approaches that strengthen collective digital rights on a global scale.