Charter of Feminist Demands from the Global South: A Global Digital Compact for Gender Equality
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2023), 12 pp.
"This Charter outlines normative directions and an action agenda for a feminist approach to digital transformation, based on wide-ranging consultations with nearly 100 participants from the Global South. It calls for key principles of digital governance – openness, freedom and security – to serve as a guide in attaining constructive pluralism, equitable and just societies, and flourishing futures across our planet. It asserts that the UN Global Digital Compact must secure state and corporate accountability for protecting women’s human rights in the digital age, a new global social contract for a socially just digital transition, and institutional arrangements to ensure network and data resources become part of the commons." (Title page)
1 INTRODUCTION, 2
2 CORE PRINCIPLES FOR A FEMINIST GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPACT, 3
Principle 1. Openness for constructive pluralism, 3
Principle 2. Freedom for equitable and just societies, 4
Principle 3. Security for flourishing futures, 5
3 WHAT FEMINISTS SEEK FROM THE GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPACT: KEY DEMANDS, 6
State and Corporate Accountability for Protecting Women’s Human Rights in the Digital Age, 6
A New Global Social Contract for a Socially Just Digital Transition, 8
Commoning the Internet and Data Resources, 10
2 CORE PRINCIPLES FOR A FEMINIST GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPACT, 3
Principle 1. Openness for constructive pluralism, 3
Principle 2. Freedom for equitable and just societies, 4
Principle 3. Security for flourishing futures, 5
3 WHAT FEMINISTS SEEK FROM THE GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPACT: KEY DEMANDS, 6
State and Corporate Accountability for Protecting Women’s Human Rights in the Digital Age, 6
A New Global Social Contract for a Socially Just Digital Transition, 8
Commoning the Internet and Data Resources, 10
