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Name :	HILL, Richard
Date :	November 27, 2019
Organization :	Just Net Coalition
Country :	Switzerland
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Contribution :	A digital society is upon us The emerging digital future is generally greeted with a mixture of positive anticipation, awe, helplessness and even horror. Such a merely passive reaction to society’s most powerful driving force is both dangerous and unnecessary. The digital reshapes our social relationships and power structures so fundamentally that society’s data and intelligence governance requires a new digital social contract. There is no time to lose in taming the power of the digital. We can either surrender our digital future, or we can take ownership of it. In our determination and struggle to enable people to own their digital futures, we adopt the following principles towards a digital society that is just, equitable and sustainably productive: 1. Data subjects must own their data – individually and collectively 2. Our data requires protection from abuse 3. We need the tools to control our data 4. Data commons need appropriate governance frameworks 5. Data protection, sharing and use require new institutions 6. Data-creating work ought to come with data rights 7. Data should be processed close to the point of its origin 8. Cross-border data flows must be decided nationally 9. Techno-structures need to be reclaimed as personal and public spaces 10. We should own our software and be able to control it 11. Key digital infrastructures need to be governed as public utilities 12. Techno-structures must be decentralised for open use, with interoperability 13. Global digital monopolies should be broken 14. Societies’ datafication needs to be managed democratically 15. Digital standards must be developed by public interest bodies 16. The digital has to be governed in a local-to-global manner
Attachments :	CWG-Internet 2019 JNC.pdf