Our vision
Our vision for this digital decade is to bridge the digital divide in many of the ways in which it occurs, be it between people with connectivity to the internet and digital skills and those without, the divide between the civilizational values in the real world and the moral vacuum of the metaverse. We join the many citizens who are concerned about the concentration of information in few hands online, the dissemination of fake news, use of new technologies for surveillance purposes and consequent undermining of democracy in the U.S. and elsewhere across the world.
We believe
We believe in working towards a new conceptual framework and tools which will translate the Declaration on European Digital Rights and Principles and its six chapters into the digital world in a manner so they can be adopted by the key actors undertaking digital transformation such as large companies, data-scientists and start-ups.
First step
The first step in creating a conceptual framework, tools and indicators is to establish a new interdisciplinary dialogue between experts in ICT/data science and the experts in the social sciences and the law. There is a disconnect between the social scientists/advocates and ICT experts. For this reason, legal theories have lagged behind technological advances and digitisation has already started adversely affecting fundamental rights of citizens. The bias and discrimination in models used for training automated decision making systems, the prevalence of disinformation and fake news online and the targeting of the teenage audience with digitally altered images leading to mental health issues and self-harm are well known.
Our goal
This new platform, the DIGILOGUE, will have a mandate of carrying out the following four Actions:
This new platform , The DIGILOGUE, will have a mandate of carrying out the following four Actions:
Action 1
Collaborative research between the disciplines on the issue of how to transform the European standards underlying the six chapters of the Declaration into the digital realm and how these standards may be adopted in practice by those involved in digitization.
Action 2
Action 3
The platform will develop analytical tools and measurement indicators to enable the Commission to monitor the Union’s and Member States’ overall digital performance across several policy dimensions so as to be included in the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI).