Human Rights and the Digital Divide.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (267 pages)
- Routledge Research in Human Rights Law Series .
- Routledge Research in Human Rights Law Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Table of cases -- Abbreviations -- 1 General introduction -- 1.1 Scope of the book -- 1.2 Methodological approach -- 1.3 Definitional challenges -- 1.4 Key themes of the book -- 1.5 Structure of the book -- 2 The historical context of international debates on a right to access to information technology and digital divide guarantees -- 2.1 Phase I: the early years of the UN -- 2.2 Phase II: New World Information and Communication Order and the MacBride Report -- 2.3 Phase III: the 2003 and 2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) -- 2.4 Phase IV: the Internet Governance Forum and the WSIS implementation process -- 2.5 Conclusion: the need to assess the digital divide phenomenon through a human rights legal framework -- 3 Negative obligations -- 3.1 Brief introduction to freedom of expression: Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) -- 3.2 Yildirim v. Turkey -- 3.3 Inter-American system: similarities and differences -- 3.4 Conclusions: denial of access to the Internet and prevention of collateral censorship on the Internet -- 4 Positive obligations to facilitate access to the Internet -- 4.1 Definition, scope, and how to determine whether there is a positive obligation -- 4.2 Positive obligations to protect against third-party interference -- 4.3 Positive obligations to safeguard pluralism -- 4.4 Positive obligations to provide access to information -- 4.5 Implications on potential positive obligations to facilitate universal access to the Internet -- 4.6 Opportunities and challenges for a freedom of expression framework to address the digital divide -- 5 Looking outside freedom of expression to strengthen digital inclusion guarantees -- 5.1 Rights essential in a democratic society. 5.2 Role of the Internet in society and the principle of self-fulfilment -- 5.3 Non-discrimination: framing of a 'right to access the internet' in terms of equality -- 5.4 Conclusion: creating a more robust human rights legal framework to bridge the digital divide -- 6 Case study in digital inclusion -- Purpose and scope -- 6.1 Jalisco's legal framework for La Agenda Digital Jalisco 2013 -- 6.2 JDA's digital inclusion implementation framework -- 6.3 The Digital Community Centres' improving digital literacy, increasing access to activities and services -- 6.4 Challenges or barriers preventing the effective implementation of the digital inclusion programme -- 6.5 Conclusion: toward mutually reinforcing lines of research to support bridging the digital divide -- 7 Conclusions -- 7.1 Access to the infrastructure and access to content -- 7.2 Difficulties in categorizing speech online -- 7.3 Mapping international legal standards -- 7.4 Linking human rights protection to the digital divide: setting an inter-disciplinary agenda to bridge the digital divide -- Bibliography -- Index.
Within the context of existing freedom of expression guarantees, this book critically evaluates the goal of bridging the "digital divide," the gap between those who have access to the Internet and those who do not.