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This website contains the documentation relative to the Project Lockdown Initiative from The IO Foundation.
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Introduction to the Project Lockdown initiative
The Initiative
Project Lockdown is a civic tech, interactive platform providing an overview of the state of Human and Digital Rights around the globe. It evaluates policies obtained from high quality sources that may impact their observance. It provides, among other tools, a layered map interface that allows for a visual representation of the policies adopted, assisting a broad range of stakeholders in understanding the global state of their Rights. This empowers them to become active agents of global change. 

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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
As core stakeholders, technologists play a critical role as the Next Generation of Rights Defenders and need to orient themselves through new design and implementation paradigms focused on protecting data. 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.
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.
By understanding that we are our data, technologists may architect Digital Spaces that aim at ending remedy and build it so that they implement Rights by design.
Objectives
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Summary of Activities
Design, implement and maintain the project's modules (MAP, API, BO, WEB)
Evaluate and implement new DataSet Layers
Implement data funnels that allow faster integration of policy data in the platform
Create and maintain the Global Rights Index
Publish research over the data in the platform
Outcomes
Create awareness and an easier understanding on the global state of Rights
Engage with a wide range of partners to maximize the above
Support civil society and policy makers to generate policy proposals that are attuned with the defense of Rights.
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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 TIOF'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 TIOF'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.
You can support The IO Foundation by
​Donate to TIOF​
​Join our team​
Partner with us
Check our Partners and Collaborators.
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