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# DCDR Principles
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## About
**Data-Centric Digital Rights** (DCDR) is the advocacy of protecting citizens' Rights by transparently implementing the regulations that should protect them.
As core stakeholders, technologists play a critical role as the NextGen Rights Defenders and need to orient themselves through new design and implementation paradigms focused on protecting citizen's digital twins.
The **DCDR Principles** put forward by The IO Foundation are concepts that help them navigate the intricacies of applying Human and Digital Rights in digital infrastructures, products and services.
  
## Outcomes
* Establish an easy reference guidance for technologists
* Establish the premises for the conceptualization of the [DCDR Framework](https://TIOF.Click/DCDRFramework)
* Design a syllabus for the dissemination of the DCDR Framework
* Promote the awareness and understanding of the DCDR Principles
* Serve as the basis for the [Sagan Oath](https://TIOF.Click/DCDRSaganOath)
* Incorporate the DCDR Principles in the [Universal Declaration of Digital Rights](https://TIOF.Click/UDDRDocs)
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