Description du projet
La technologie numérique comme outil de répression dans les régimes autoritaires
Les régimes autoritaires utilisent les nouvelles technologies numériques pour réprimer les droits des militants. Le projet DIGIACT, financé par l’UE, enquêtera sur la façon dont les régimes autoritaires appliquent des méthodes numériques répressives contre leurs opposants politiques et les droits de l’homme des militants au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord (MENA). Ce projet étudiera la relation existante entre les régimes autoritaires et la technologie numérique, ainsi que la façon dont les droits fondamentaux peuvent être protégés dans le monde numérique. Pour atteindre ses objectifs, le projet travaille avec le groupe de recherche Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS), à la Vrije Universiteit Brussel en Belgique.
Objectif
Transnational advocacy networks play an important role in exposing rights violations and undermining media censorship under authoritarian regimes. Yet, repressive states increasingly resort to surveillance, malware attacks, online harassment and disinformation campaigns to compromise transnational civil society activists and mute their voices. DIGIACT investigates forms of digitally enabled information control, surveillance and repression against political activists, journalists and human rights defenders from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) who reside in the European Union. The project provides an in-depth analysis of how threats to freedom of expression and privacy of transnational activists emerge and spread in an environment of rapidly evolving digital technologies. The research studies the motivations and capabilities of the regimes behind the threats, the effects on targeted communities and their strategies of resistance, and the implications both on a normative (international human rights law and other legal frameworks) and practical level (risk mitigation and capacity building). With this research agenda, DIGIACT aims to contribute to a) concept building on the relationship between digital technologies and authoritarian politics, and b) the debate on how to protect fundamental norms and rights in the digital age. To accomplish these goals, the project is embedded in the research group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) at VUB where the applicant will receive training in theoretical and legal approaches to surveillance, privacy and data protection in the context of digital technologies.
Champ scientifique
- social sciencesmedia and communicationsjournalism
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitymalicious software
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protection
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- social scienceslawhuman rightshuman rights law
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Régime de financement
MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinateur
1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgique