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Introduction
Access to Internet has enabled to widen the horizons of
knowledge. Information is not only shared, but also
governments and institutions are now more transparent.
The fact that citizens have more knowledge and information
on civil society and their leaders plays an important role
towards democratic
governance and social
cohesion.
These achievements are ours to keep. However, the current
challenge is to alert and correct the arisen risks to the
rights of privacy, intimacy and
honor, under this digital environment, especially
favorable for the freedom of expression.
Considering this perspective, IIJusticia —Instituto de
Investigación para la Justicia— is implementing, with the
support of the
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
and the
Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA), the
project of applied investigation named
Rights and Justice in the social
movement on the Internet.
This project is focused on exploring and developing a
knowledge basis which analytically includes a
systematization of risks and an updated summary of the
experienced solutions in relation to fundamental rights in
Internet, particularly the privacy right (viewed as a
paradigm), oriented to facilitate an informed debate on
the risks generated by the ICTs to the vulnerable
populations (specially children, teenagers and young
people) and possible corrections without damaging
achievements on these matters (information access, freedom
of expression and transparency of the Government and
institutions). The project covers Latin American and the
Caribbean countries.
By carrying a series of investigations, a knowledge basis
could be generated on different interacting areas
(statutory and case law; safe Internet policies,
vulnerable groups, e-government, freedom of expression,
information access and gender).
This project also gathers the realization of seminars and
workshops in order to share the experiences among the
different social actors that have direct incidence and
participate in the promotion of actions and policies
concerning to this thematic and elaborate then
recommendations.
Specific Objectives
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Survey direct and concrete violation cases of fundamental
rights using instruments specially created with this
purpose
(ombudsperson
of cybercitizen);
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Identify institutions and key people in the selected
countries that facilitate and collaborate in the debate
towards an approximation of a consensus on the public
policies to
be promoted;
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Use software tools (in a direct way o by standards
definition) that enable a better use of the ICTs keeping a
balance among rights (e.g.
anonymizating governmental documents and
governmental management systems);
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Promote and facilitate a regional debate on conflicts and
needed solutions to make possible a development of the
ICTS within a balance among fundamental rights being
coherent with the characteristics of the region;
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Generate information products and recommendations;
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Make society consciously aware of the need to prevent and
take actions against risks;
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Inform governments and
facilitate them to
create new public policies for ICTs within a balance
among Rights;
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Give Support to Judicial
Branches in order for them to assume a more
active role and correct the risks of using ICTs;
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Support Judicial
Branches to join the ICTs in order to achieve a
more efficient performance.
See the
descriptive document of the project
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