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About
The Data-Centric Digital Rights (DCDR) Framework, an initiative by The IO Foundation, is a pioneering effort to empower technologists to protect digital citizens and their digital twins by embedding rights-focused principles into technology design. Comprising Principles, Taxonomies, and technical tools, the DCDR Framework provides a structured approach to understanding data’s nature and its implications for digital rights. It aims to shift technology paradigms by enabling technologists to act as Next Generation Rights Defenders, ensuring privacy, transparency, and user empowerment are built into digital systems by design. Through advocacy, publications, and global engagement, the DCDR Framework seeks to create a world where technology transparently upholds citizens’ rights. For more details, explore the full documentation at The IO Foundation’s DCDR project page.
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NOTICE
The DCDR Framework is currently a work in progress.
About
The DCDR Framework is the basis for TIOF's DCDR advocacy.
The Framework
The DCDR Framework is composed of a number of components that are interconnected and building upon each other.
Combined, they provide the necessary tools to support technologists in understanding the underlying interactions between the physical and the digital worlds.
The DCDR Framework provides the foundation for the rest of the DCDR components
The DCDR Framework is structured upon 3 Levels representing different conceptualizations. Each Level helps sustaining the propositions made in the upper level.
Structure
Basic Premises
Citizen-centric [WHY?]
Digital Spaces (which can be many) are a result, and thus dependent of the Physical Space (which is unique) [WHY?]
Layer I
This level provides an structure on the nature of a Space. It describes the fundamentals of what composes a Space and the interactions happening within it.
Layer II
This level provides a list of DCDR Components on the bases of the objects existing in a Space.
Layer III
This level describes the DCDR Framework, a macro view of how the DCDR Components are to interact to architect digital spaces that respond to the DCDR Principles.
Licensing and distribution
As all materials created by The IO Foundation, the DCDR Framework is published under TIOF Public Licensing Model.
Revisions
The DCDR Framework, as any other component of the DCDR advocacy, is subjected to improvements.
How to contribute
Anyone wishing to submit an improvement to the DCDR Framework, can do so via the DCDR Framework folder in the DCDR repository.
Outcomes
Establish a working group to research on the DCDR Framework
Produce a research paper documenting the DCDR Framework
Design a syllabus for the dissemination of the DCDR Framework
Promote the awareness and understanding of the research results
Serve as the basis for the Sagan Oath
Incorporate the research's results in the Universal Declaration of Digital Rights
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