About

This section provides a list of Frequently Asked Questions about the DCDR advocacy.

About

This section provides all the information about the Data-Centric Digital Rights initiative's business plan.

[Work in Progress]

Budgeting

[Work in Progress]

About

This section describes the Theory of Change that guides the Data-Centric Digital Rights initiative and its impact.

The observed problem

The IO Foundation has observed the following problem:

The current state of technology is not conducive to designing digital spaces that are transparently protected

• The extra weight on citizen’s shoulders

• The ridiculous difference between tech and the rest of the industries

• Impossibility of adherence to compliance

• Impossibility for agencies to verify and enforce compliance

• Leaving behind major stakeholder: programmers

The proposed solutions

The IO Foundation proposes the following solutions to the observed problems.

[Work in Progress]

Theory of change

The IO Foundation proposes the following Theory of Change to address the observed problems.

[Work in Progress]

Introduction

The IO Foundation is always looking for talented individuals wishing to make an impact in technology through its DCDR advocacy initiative.

Do you share the DCDR's Mission & Vision?

Do you have a passion towards the development and support of the Data-Centric Digital Rights advocacy?

How can I contribute?

Contributing in the DCDR advocacy is easy!

There are 2 ways to proceed:

Participate as a TIOF Member

By joining as a TIOF Member you will officially join one of the DCDR Teams, participate in organized tasks and have access to tools and other resources as well as training.

TIOF Members can be:

• Employees

• Interns

• Volunteers

• Members of a Board

Participate as a Collaborator

It is not necessary to be a Member to participate and make a meaningful contribution to the DCDR advocacy.

There are plenty of ways that you can support it without requiring to dive into its complexities.

In response to your commitment towards our values (and in the measure of our capacities), The IO Foundation publishes all ongoing tasks for the DCDR advocacy initiative in its public repository.

Check out what are we up to and pick tasks you feel you can contribute with.

The Initiative

Data-Centric Digital Rights (DCDR), an initiative from The IO Foundation, is the advocacy by which it aims at protecting citizens' Rights by transparently implementing in their daily technology the regulations that should protect them.

TIOF views the technology as currently non-correlated with all working understandings and practices as to how any public-consumption industry functions traditionally where a clear separation is made between:

• Experts, who understand the complexities to design and build products that are compliant with applicable legislation and

• Citizens, who are solely tasked for being responsible users of the product

In essence, DCDR is a framework for technologists composed by Principles, Taxonomies and other technical tools. It enables them to develop a deeper understanding about the nature of data, the digital twins that emerge from it and make possible for them to embrace their role as NextGen Rights Defenders.

Objectives

The DCDR initiative aims at encouraging a shift in the current technology paradigms by providing

• DCDR Principles

• Sagan Oath

• Generating the necessary body of work for

  • A DCDR framework

  • A set of taxonomies for

    • Digital Harms

    • Digital Rights

    • Use Cases

Mission & Vision

While the DCDR initiative is designed in order to support TIOF's mission and to achieve its vision, it nonetheless also formulates its own Mission & Vision.

Mission

To provide technologist with a clear framework and taxonomies to embed Data-Centric Digital Rights into technology and enable their role as Next Generation of Rights Defenders.

Vision

A world where technology protects digital citizens and their digital twins transparently and by design.

Values

The DCDR initiative adheres to the same values as The IO Foundation to deliver its mission.

Publications

The IO Foundation regularly publishes articles, research papers and other documents such as comments on public consultations related to its advocacy. Check out DCDR's publications.

Events

The IO Foundation regularly organizes events and participates in international fora where the organization puts forward its advocacy and engages with all stakeholders. TIOF's handles all of its events through its TechUp initiative. Check out DCDR's events.

Engaged Stakeholders

The advancement of TIOF's DCDR advocacy is made possible with the collaboration of a number of partner and supporting organizations, funders and individual citizens.

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

• Design a syllabus for the dissemination of the DCDR Framework

• Promote the awareness and understanding of the DCDR Principles

Supporting TIOF

Your contribution goes straight to our work ensuring new technologies are architected and built to protect digital citizens.

Fiat currencies

You can donate using fiat currencies.

Crypto currencies

You can donate using crypto currencies.

Adopt designs that minimize grievances.

This DCDR principle represents the embodiment of the proactive planification, architecture and implementation of all necessary mechanisms, both in policy and technology, to avoid grievances to ever happen during the use of a product or a service, in turn minimizing the need for legal actions.

About

The following section provides a comprehensive list of terms employed in The IO Foundation's Data-Centric Digital Rights initiative.

DCDR Terminology

🚧 Access Control

🚧 Algorithm

A finite sequence of instructions that transform input data, and in turn generate output data, in order to perform a task or solve a problem.

🚧 Analog Space

Source Entities exist in the analog space.

🚧 Applicable Laws

Ensemble of regulations that apply to all objects in a transaction in the DCDR Framework. These regulations can be established by any governance body or Community.

🚧Authentic Data

Data conforming a Digital Twin component that maintains its entanglement with its source entity component.

🚧 Authentic Equivalence

🚧 Centralized

🚧 Child

In a spawning operation, Parent is the originating Object that is spawned and Child is the resulting spawn.

🚧 Community(?)

🚧 Consent

Expression of agreement that grants permission to proceed with a certain proposal.

🚧 Cost

🚧 Data

A collection of discrete meaningful values, collected or deduced, that can be stored, processed or transmitted.

Quantified information representing properties of a source entity.

A set of data, either authentic or non-authentic, arranged under a certain schema conforms a Digital Twin.

🚧 Data Controller

Traditional

DCDR

🚧 Data Owner

Traditional

DCDR

🚧 Data Protection Law

Legal mechanism that aims at the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of Personal Data.

🚧 Data Subject

Traditional

DCDR

🚧 Data User

Traditional

DCDR

🚧 Data-Centric Digital Right

🚧 Data-Centric Digital Rights (advocacy)

The advocacy bringing forward the observance of the Rights to be applied over data to protect it from its undue usage or extinction.

The basic principles protecting Representational Entities in Digital Spaces.

🚧 Data-Centric Digital Rights Principles

A set of guiding concepts around which the conversation of DR is constructed.

🚧 Data-Centric Digital Rights Framework

🚧 Data Lifecycle

🚧 Decentralized

🚧 Decentralized Network

A collection of interconnected hardware Nodes that collaborate to perform tasks where none of the parties is irreplaceable for a proper functioning. / to perform its expected SERVICES.

🚧 Digital Asset

The Representational Entity for any non-human Source Entity.

Assets are owned by Digital Communities.

🚧 Digital Community

A collection of one or more Representational Entities, organized around a common objective.

🚧 Digital Domain

@@@Definition of the digital world from the perspective of the technology.

🚧 Digital Harm

Any algorithmic action that may bring closer the extinction of a given data point.

🚧 Digital Harmful Action

Any algorithmic decision that will result in the occurrence of a Digital Harm.

🚧 Digital Harmful Outcome

The resulting damaging outcome, be it over the Representational Entity or its Source Entity, that will result in Digital or Physical Harm.

🚧 Digital Identity

The Representational Entity for any human Source Entity.

🚧 Digital Right

An algorithmic action that proactively prevents the occurrence of a Digital Harm on a given data point.

Digital Rights: Always use “Digital Rights” and not “digital rights”.

Digital Rights are the basic principles protecting Representational Entities in Digital Spaces. By extension, protecting Digital Rights is the way to observe Human Rights.

The collection of Digital Right

The basic principles protecting Representational Entities in Digital Spaces.

🚧 Digital Rights Advocacy

🚧 Digital Space

Digital Spaces are, beyond the Internet, the collection of networks that, whether public or private, hold data representing a Source Entity which may be stored for digital processing with or without their consent and/or knowledge.

The collection of digital mediums, whether public or private, that may store digital twins in any way that conforms their identities, with or without their consent and/or knowledge.

The collection of digital mediums, whether public or private, that may store digital twins in any way that conforms their identities, with or without their consent and/or knowledge.

The collection of digital mediums, whether public or private, that may store users' Data in any way that conforms their identities, with or without their consent and/or knowledge.

🚧 Digital Society

🚧 Digital Twin

Digital replica of a living or non-living physical entity, organized around a schema.

🚧 Digital Twin Component

🚧 Dimension

Primary dimensions

Secondary dimensions

🚧 Distributed Ledger Technology

A distributed database that is used to maintain a list of records, called Blocks, which store an amount of data. By design, blockchains are resistant to modification of said data once recorded. Blocks and Envelopes are the building units of blockchain structures in 1Persona.

🚧 Endpoint

🚧 Endpoint ID

A unique identifier that allows an emitter A to send a message to a receptor B unequivocally. Examples:

• Email address

• Telegram username

• Mobile number

• Physical address

🚧 Entanglement

🚧 Equivalence

🚧 Non-Authentic Equivalence

🚧 Group

🚧 Human Right

Human Rights: Always use “Human Rights” and not “human rights”.

Human Rights are the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are considered to be entitled to.

🚧 Human Rights Advocacy

The advocacy bringing forward the observance of the Human Rights that are conferred to people.

🚧 Implementer

@@@The people who make possible the design, implementation and maintenance of the Digital Domain from the Analog Domain.

🚧 Internet Governance

Development and application of principles, policies, standards, decision-making procedures and programs that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.

🚧 KPI

🚧Language

Format

🚧 Lifecycle

The collection of all States an object goes through from its genesis to its end.

🚧 Loss

🚧 Mandate

A list of instructions, encoded using BPMN, that determines the behavior of Layer III objects and their Interactions.

🚧 Mesh

Any collection of Nodes is called a Mesh. When comparing two Meshes, one will be determined as SuperMesh (or Parent Mesh) while the other one will be labeled as SubMesh (Child Mesh). From the perspective of a Node, the Mesh it belongs to is always named OwnMesh. The Mesh that represents the ensemble of the running Network is called PrimeMesh.

🚧 Need

🚧 Non-Authentic Data

🚧 Object

🚧 Objective

A desired modification of one or more states measured by a set of KPIs.

🚧 Owner

🚧 Ownership

🚧Parent

🚧 Physical Harm

Any harm received by a physical entity.

Any harm applied, be it Physical (PH) or Digital (DH).

What you seek to protect.

🚧 Physical Harmful Action

Any harmful action, be it Physical (PHA) or Digital (DHA).

🚧 Physical Harmful Outcome

Any harmful outcome, be it Physical (PHO) or Digital (DHO).

🚧 Physical Lifecycle

🚧 Problem

🚧 Property

🚧 Reliability Threshold

The required number of Nodes in a Mesh to ensure its proper and full functionality.

🚧Resource

🚧 Responsibility

🚧 Schema

A templated organization of data that provides an understanding about the nature and the utility of a given set of data.

🚧 Simplification

Analyzing a system by removing a number of objects and discarding a number of dimensions in order to understand something.

🚧 Source Entities

Source Entities are any Analog object that is susceptible to be represented in any digital shape by ways of data that defines its characteristics.

🚧 Space

A Space object always acts as the Genesis Object for all its contained objects.

🚧 Spawning

The action of creating a replica of an Object that remains linked over the course of its usage.

🚧 Splinternet

The outcome of the division of the Internet due to various factors, such as technology, commerce, politics, nationalism, religion and divergent national interests.

🚧 State

🚧 Status Quo

🚧 Sustainability

🚧 Representational Entity

Representational Entities are the resulting digital model obtained from data from any Source Entity.

The digital representation of people and objects in Digital Spaces.

🚧 Taxonomy

🚧 Time

🚧 Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The UDHR is the international document reference, proclaimed by the United Nations, that serves as the foundation to the observance of Human Rights worldwide.

A set of legal and technical standards to ensure the observance, compliance and implementation of Digital Rights.

🚧 Universal Declaration of Digital Rights

The UDDR is a set of legal definitions and technical standards to ensure the observance, compliance and implementation of Data-Centric Digital Rights.

🚧 Wealth

🚧 XYZ

About

This section contains an archive of all media participations and mentions about the DCDR Advocacy.

Introduction

Definitions

This document employs terms related to TIOF's that can be found in the as well as the .

For a structure of The IO Foundation and the DCDR initiative, please visit

• The IO Foundation's

• The IO Foundation's

About this document

This document describes all the elements that conform the Data-Centric Digital Rights' initiative identity (aka Branding Guidelines) and their usage rules on any generated content, by either , or any other third parties.

It is a reference document to which all DCDR productions, either for internal or external use, must refer and adhere.

You should familiarize yourself with this it and comply with it at all times. Any questions you may have with regard to its contents or what you have to do to comply with it should be referred to the initiative's Team Comms Manager.

Concepts

Name

The following forms are authorized when referring to TechUp:

• Data-Centric Digital Rights

• DCDR

• Abbreviation: DCDR (Example: [TIOF DCDR])

Tagline

The following is the official tagline of DCDR.

Guiding technologists to build safe technology for digital twins.

Mission & Vision

Mission: To provide technologist with a clear framework and taxonomies to embed Data-Centric Digital Rights into technology and enable their role as Next Generation of Rights Defenders.

Vision: A world where technology protects digital citizens and their digital twins transparently and by design.

Values

Contents

Descriptions

The following are the official definitions to be used when describing or referencing DCDR. A number of variations are provided in an attempt to fit different character limitations.

Full version

Data-Centric Digital Rights (DCDR), an initiative from The IO Foundation, is a framework for technologists composed of Principles, Taxonomies and other technical tools. It enables them to develop a deeper understanding about the nature of data, the digital twins that emerge from it and make possible for them to embrace their role as NextGen Rights Defenders.

Mini version

Data-Centric Digital Rights (DCDR), an initiative from The IO Foundation, is a framework for technologists composed of Principles, Taxonomies and other technical tools enabling them in their role as NextGen Rights Defenders.

Micro version

Data-Centric Digital Rights, an initiative from The IO Foundation, provides a framework for technologists that enables them to embrace their role as NextGen Rights Defenders.

Nano version

DCDR provides a framework for technologists that enables them to embrace their role as NextGen Rights Defenders.

Logos

The following are the official logos for the DCDR initiative.

DCDR Principles

The following are the official formulations of the 3 DCDR Principles that The IO Foundation puts forward to guide technologist in their role as NextGen Rights defenders.

Fonts (typeface)

Color palette

QR Codes

The following are the official QR Codes to link DCDR's online resources.

#Tags

• #DCDR

• #DigitalHarms

• #DigitalRights

• #IamMyData

• #EndRemedy

• #RightsByDesign

Official Channels

The following are the official, sanctioned, Media Channels used by the DCDR advocacy for its activities.

Official Website

The following is the official website for TechUp.

Official Documentation

The following is the official documentation site for The IO Foundation and its initiatives.

URL Shorteners

Initiative's Repository

The following are the official repositories used by The IO Foundation.

Email

The following are the official email domains used by the DCDR advocacy.

The following are the official public email addresses used by TechUp.

Social Media

The following are the official social media platforms where DCDR has some sort of active presence.

Calendars

The following is the official calendar through which the DCDR advocacy publishes events:

• organized by the DCDR initiative team (including all TIOF's and its initiatives')

• those it may participate in

• other events that are deemed relevant

Donations & Crowdfunding

Human Resources

The following is the official recruitment platform through which the DCDR initiative publishes its open positions.

TIOF Initiatives

The following is a list of TIOF's initiatives and a quick link to their corresponding Media Kit.

Awards

The DCDR advocacy initiative has not received any award to this date.

Leave no policy uncoded behind.

This DCDR Principle responds to the need for policies and tech to be designed and implemented as one: the former establishes what is to be respected and the latter ensures that the compliance is built in the infrastructure so that users are protected automatically and transparently.

On other words, any protection a citizen or its digital twins are subjected to under a specific jurisdiction should be transparently implemented inside the technology itself, by design.

About

This section provides an understanding of the infrastructure, tools and procedures that The IO Foundation uses to implement the DCDR initiative.

About

A research focused on establishing a technical description on the nature of data and its lifecycle.

The Data Lifecycle

A core component of the DCDR Framework and its implementation is to provide clarity concerning the nature of data and its lifecycle. The objective is to ensure a baseline model to identify the Digital Harms that data can undergo during said lifecycle so that technologists can use it as a reference.

Licensing and distribution

As all materials created by The IO Foundation, the Data Lifecycle, a component of the DCDR Framework, is published under TIOF Public Licensing Model.

Revisions

The Data Lifecycle, as any other component of the DCDR advocacy, is subjected to improvements.

How to contribute

Anyone wishing to submit an improvement to the Data Lifecycle, can do so via the Data Lifecycle folder in the DCDR repository.

Outcomes

• Establish a working group to research on the Data Lifecycle

• Produce a research paper documenting the Data Lifecycle

• Design a syllabus for the dissemination of the Data Lifecycle

• Promote the awareness and understanding of the research results

• Incorporate the research's results in the Universal Declaration of Digital Rights

About

The Sagan Oath is a declaration for technologists to adhere to as they actively contribute to Digital Spaces and platforms to ensure the protection of their users by design. It’s ultimate goal is to synthesize a sense of purpose that can be operationalized and thus effectively guide technologists in their role as new rights defenders.

In the same spirit of the modern Hippocratic Oath (of which it is directly inspired at the time of its conception), the Sagan Oath attempts to express verbally the responsibilities that technology engineers should embrace.

The Hippocratic Oath is a universal declaration by doctors to society clarifying their commitment, in entering the medical world, to uphold specific ethical standards. As a result of this pledge any patient knows that the primary objective of a doctor, anywhere in the world, is their care and protection.

In the absence of such a covenant, technologists have found it challenging to generate the same global commitment. As a consequence, technology as been developed not to advance and protect its users but rather use and abuse them.

The IO Foundation aims at complementing the DCDR Framework with an Oath that can help technologists to understand their fundamental role as Next Generation of Rights Defenders.

The Oath

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect my fellow citizens, for their problems and data, which is them in essence, are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a digital twin, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to erase a digital twin; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own technical prowess. Above all, I must not play at Digital God.

I will remember that I do not treat a dataset, a schema, but a citizen and their authentic digital twins, whose improper manipulation may affect the citizen’s family’s safety and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for people’s data.

I will strive to design architectures and to implement technology that embeds all existing protections whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those with access to technology and those who don’t.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of building digital spaces that encourage societal growth while ensuring safety by design.

Pledge

Licensing and distribution

As all materials created by The IO Foundation, the Sagan Oath is published under TIOF Public Licensing Model.

Revisions

The Sagan Oath, as any other component of the DCDR advocacy, is subjected to improvements.

How to contribute

Anyone wishing to submit an improvement to the Sagan Oath, can do so via the Sagan Oath folder in the DCDR repository.

Treat other people's data the same way you want to be treated.

The traditional understanding of data as separate entities from their users is anchored in past perceptions and the use of legacy technologies.

The reality is much different: The data representing users (and of which they should have control of consent) is intimately and inextricably linked to them; it models them, creating an accurate representation that loses all value should that contextualization ever be severed.

The direct consequence is that a user’s data IS the user itself.