Digital age and threats to human rights
Published
| Region | National coverage |
|---|---|
| Title of the Programme | Human Rights |
| Title of the Project | Digital age and threats to human rights |
| Number of the Project | LP-HRMGSA-056 |
| Project Promoter | Transparency International Czech Republic |
| Project Partner from Donor State | Åpenhet (Norway) |
| Czech Partner | Czech Technical University in Prague – |
| Status | Project duration (phase of the project): 1. 1. 2022–30. 4. 2024 |
| More Information | Target group: Women Website: https://www.transparency.cz/ |
| Total Eligible Costs | 186 966 € |
| Grant | 186 966 € (100 %) |
Summary:
The project takes on new challenges of the contemporary world of the internet and focuses on the online environment of social networks, where human rights merge with the digital ones. New technologies and means of communication also bring a threat of breaching those rights in ways that may not be so easy to uncover and punish just like it is in the offline world.
In this way, the project will determine, whether groups are the targets of manipulative and discriminating actions in online space just like they are in the regular world. The project’s goal is to reveal to what extent are for example ethnical or gender stereotypes used within persuasive, manipulative strategies on the online social networks, for example in activities of political microtargeting during preelection campaigns or in cases of violent acts based on prejudice.
The project will raise awareness of the public about digital rights and the need to protect the vulnerable social groups in digital space; create new standards of transparency within persuasive strategies in communication with regard to digital (human) rights and develop methodical documents stating the applied outcomes of the analysis; engage the latest up-to-date technologies in approach to the analysis of the digital social networks in order to protect human rights; develop new educational materials (both as an educational programme for teachers at the university, as well as a training course for the police force and judges).