Deadline: 27-Feb-2022
The Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, UN-Habitat, UCLG and Eurocities, in partnership with Open Society Foundation, have launched an open call to find experts and city governments in Europe to pilot the Digital Rights Governance Framework.
Selected cities will receive support to design and implement the Digital Rights Governance Framework at the local level, and will be provided with technical advice, ad hoc support and advisory input.
The goal of the project is to tackle local digital-rights challenges around digital rights thematic areas such as digital inclusion, individual’s control and autonomy of data, transparency and accountability, public participation and community engagement, privacy, digital public goods and open digital infrastructures, procurement by developing a Digital Rights Governance Framework and a capacity-building programme in these topics.
Using challenge-driven innovation, the pilot process will include assessments, workshops and a capacity-building approach that will be carried out in collaboration with the city’s local staff.
The Digital Rights Governance Framework project has a timeline from December 2021 until March 2023.
Modalities
The call includes two modalities:
- “CITIES”, where city governments in Europe are welcome to apply by sharing local challenges in the different digital rights areas – The pilot will require engagement and commitment from the cities, who should be able to work a few hours per month with the project team. The contribution from the cities in terms of time and resources will depend on the phase of the project, starting with the Discover and Design phase to understand the city challenge better, and the actual Pilot phase when the cities receive support to implement their digital rights strategies, in a practical way.
- “EXPERTS”, for professionals with background in the thematic areas related to digital rights – The framework initiative invites qualified individuals with experience and expertise in digital inclusion, individual’s control and autonomy of data, transparency and accountability, public participation and community engagement, privacy, digital public goods and open digital infrastructures, human rights-based procurement and capacity building in these topics.
The contribution and collaboration with experts will be voluntary-based and will be defined based on the time availability, area of knowledge and the selection of cities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Local governments of cities in Europe are invited to express interest in piloting the Digital Rights Governance Framework initiative.
- In this initial phase, the pilot project is open to European cities only, including cities member of the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights.
- Qualified individuals with experience and expertise in the different areas of digital rights are invited to apply for the digital rights governance framework and contribute in the pilot initiative.
For more information, visit https://citiesfordigitalrights.org/opencall