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06/06/25

Cities shaping their digital rights future at the CC4DR Annual Meeting 2025

17/04/25

Advocating for ethical digital practices with Alexandra Briem (meet digital rights politicians advocates #1)

26/02/25

Developing a rights-based AI governance at city level - Recommendations from the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights

19/02/25

International Digital Rights Days 2024 - Impact Report of a key moment for Digital Human Rights at local and global levels

10/12/24

This week, let’s celebrate the 1st International Digital Rights Days

29/11/24

For a consent-based and transparent data management in cities - Recommendations from the Cities Coalition of Digital Rights

22/11/24

Reinforcing citizen participation in shaping urban digital ecosystems - Recommendations from the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights

21/11/24

Conclusions from the SCEWC side-event “Policy Tools for Ethical Urban AI Governance“

14/11/24

Positioning cities as champions for digital inclusion - recommendations from the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights

07/11/24

For a Digital Rights Agenda that fully involved local governments

06/11/24

Make Digital human rights comes true - from global perspective to our cities

29/10/24

Meet inspiring people at the CC4DR - Léa Lebon

28/10/24

Mission 3: Results from the AI Governance Maturity Survey

10/10/24

Mission 2: The MyData Task Force report is out now!

07/10/24

Join us in Barcelona for three CC4DR's sessions in SCEWC (5-7 November)

26/07/24

Belo Horizonte, a commitment to digital inclusion through citizen-centred service design

01/07/24

Governance and use of AI systems - we need your participation!

29/03/24

Boston, a community-based approach to enhance inclusive digital experiences for all

28/02/24

Reykjavík, a digital transformation driven by and for citizens participation and human rights policies

23/01/24

Join the CC4DR MyData Taskforce meetings

15/01/24

Digital Society Digital Cities: best moments

30/11/23

UN Habitat selects Antonio Carvalho (Maceió) to work on international guidelines for smart cities.

30/11/23

Looking forward to 2024: plans and objectives for the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights - all you need to know’

15/11/23

Launch of the Cities and Digital Rights platform

27/10/23

Glasgow, a Scottish city champion for digital inclusion and the use of data to reduce inequality

23/10/23

The City of Brussels launched its Digital rights charter

20/10/23

Press release - CC4DR presented its Global Package for Digital Human Rights in cities during its Annual Political Meeting in Bordeaux

31/08/23

Hector Dominguez - “Digital Rights is also about people who implement them”

31/07/23

Niterói: a digital transformation led by transparency, accessibility & democratic participation values

09/02/23

Portland passes surveillance technology policy

09/02/23

Barcelona adopts protocol to introduce human rights safeguards in AI implementation

19/01/23

9 European cities set a common data algorithm register standard to promote transparent AI

16/12/22

Digital Human Rights in Dublin: Developing Learning Modules on Digital Rights

15/12/22

Digital Human Rights in Sofia: Assessing the city’s digital rights maturity and creating a strategic document on digital rights

14/12/22

Digital Human Rights in Brussels: Defining a policy document on digital rights

13/12/22

Digital Human Rights in Tirana: Raising awareness among public officials

09/12/22

Human Rights Day: Steering Principles into Action in the Digital Transformation of Cities

09/12/22

The Barcelona Conference for Digital Inclusion: Bridging Gaps for a Just Digital Transition

14/11/22

UN-Habitat, the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights and partners launch a guide for mainstreaming human rights in the digital transformation of cities

27/10/22

Portland's Zine on Digital Justice, Digital Rights and Surveillance Technologies

25/10/22

Private sensors in public spaces put democracy at risk, but cities are stepping up

13/10/22

Join us at SCEWC 2022!

08/09/22

The U20 Calls For An Adaption of Human Rights to the Digital Age

01/08/22

New Video on Ethics and Privacy in Smart Cities

01/08/22

The City of Dublin is Building an Educational Module on Emerging Technologies with Support from the CC4DR

21/07/22

The Global Observatory of Urban AI launches its ATLAS

21/07/22

Barcelona will host the UN's initiative to connect every school in the world to the internet

21/06/22

Communities have a say in the deployment of surveillance technologies, and Portland is proving it

15/06/22

Amsterdam’s Cyberbank: A Bank for Laptops to Fight the Digital Divide

30/05/22

A milestone for digital rights in cities

18/05/22

"When billboards stare back: how cities can reclaim the digital public space", New report in collaboration with Nesta

08/04/22

Digitalisation for the sake of digitalisation is not enough

24/03/22

Brussels, Dublin, Sofia and Tirana selected to pilot a digital rights governance framework

17/03/22

Porto is building a culture of data focused on openness, privacy and agility

15/03/22

UserCentriCities publishes a repository of User-Centric Public Services in European Cities and Regions

02/03/22

Statement on the suspension of Moscow's membership from the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights

01/03/22

New partnership with Metropolis to promote digital rights in metropolitan areas

24/02/22

Cities are facing challenges related to digital rights, but they are not alone

09/02/22

Self assessment guide for city procurement and development of Urban AI systems

04/02/22

Use personal data on behalf of citizens - On citizens' terms

24/01/22

Digital Rights in Cities: Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean

23/12/21

Exploring the Rabbit Hole of Digital Rights

09/12/21

The first draft of the Digital Rights Governance Framework is out and open for feedback

29/11/21

The right to have digital rights in cities

23/11/21

UN HABITAT launches the People-centered smart cities playbooks

18/11/21

The CC4DR meets in Barcelona for its annual General Assembly

11/11/21

The Global Observatory of Urban AI publishes the report “AI Ethics in policy and action: city governance of algorithmic-decision systems”

03/11/21

Citizen Voices for Digital Rights

28/10/21

Barcelona's Citizen ecosystem for digital rights

27/10/21

Toronto's Digital Infrastructure Plan

26/10/21

Digital literacy in CC4DR cities

21/10/21

How can citizen voices advance digital rights?

16/10/21

The Cities Coalition for Digital Rights' first Deputy Mayors' meeting

13/10/21

e-Magazine on Digital Rights

08/10/21

Community Engagement in the City of San José

06/08/21

Libraries and Cites should join forces to uphold digital rights locally

05/08/21

Defining digital rights

20/07/21

Spain presents its Charter of Digital Rights

09/07/21

Presentation of the Global Observatory on Urban AI

28/06/21

Digital Rights enter the U20 agenda

21/05/21

Digital ethics and inclusion in Leeds

03/05/21

CC4DR Convenes Applied Digital Rights Initiative

23/04/21

Flagship Projects on Digital Inclusion in Milan

04/03/21

Barcelona City Council launches a report on the digital divide

15/02/21

The City of San Jose's Data Equity Strategy

10/02/21

City profile: Long Beach

28/01/21

An Emerging Tech Charter for London

15/01/21

CC4DR Progress in 2020 & Beyond: What lies ahead

11/01/21

Digital Rights Progress in EU

14/12/20

Internet as a human right

01/12/20

Online Training 'Ethics of AI', Helsinki

26/11/20

Toolkit

25/11/20

Digital Rights Workshops in Germany - November 2020

23/11/20

Second public consultation of the Charter of Digital Rights in Spain

23/11/20

Torino City Love: innovation & social inclusion can walk together.

17/11/20

AI as Public Service: Accountability & AI-Registers

12/11/20

How local and regional governments envision the future in light of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations

26/10/20

CCDR Data Sharing Work Group - Round Table at NGI 2020

01/10/20

London’s Report: Public deliberation in the use of health and care data

01/10/20

NGI Policy Summit 2020

29/07/20

Digital rights in the COVID-19 era

24/07/20

Barcelona City Council will have a pioneering municipal AI strategy in Europe

20/07/20

How urban myths become the deathblow of contact tracing technology [Guest-blog]

14/07/20

The sword or the shield: what weapon to use? Lessons from Porto, London and São Paolo on COVID19-apps

08/07/20

Digital Rights, Civic Participation and Crises – observations from Berlin [Guest Blog]

03/06/20

CC4DR Position Statement & Recommendations: Safeguarding Digital Rights when Applying COVID-19 Related Technologies

13/05/20

City Examples of Digital Rights in Times of COVID-19

27/04/20

From AI accountability to Citizen Participation: Cities share their questions during the 5th members meeting

17/12/19

Looking Back & Looking forward – Members Meeting in Barcelona: Strategy 2020

17/07/19

Publication of Cities' Coalition for Digital Rights Booklet

02/07/19

First global meeting of member cities at Amsterdam's WeMakeThe.City

13/06/19

First global meeting of member cities at WeMakeThe.City in Amsterdam (19-20 June 2019)

31/05/19

Urban 20 met in Tokyo to bring local views to the G20

31/05/19

Publication "Our Digital Rights to the City"

13/05/19

Declaration available in several languages

02/04/19

Welcome to new joined cities

01/04/19

Global campaign to advance digital rights targets 100 cities in 100 days

14/11/18

Launch of the Coalition

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