全球智库信息集成服务系统

Capacity-building interventions take place in a rapidly evolving technology, political and socio-cultural landscape. This landscape is characterised by

• opportunities to use data, digital technologies and services to exercise human rights and fundamental freedoms, aid access to relevant information and strengthen safeguards
• challenges stemming from the exploitation of data, digital technologies and services as economic and governance commodities (e.g. through digitalisation of public services)
• threats to human rights stemming from the exploitation of the information environment for mass surveillance and authoritarian practices, or illicit and criminal purposes (e.g. disinformation).

Organisations active in capacity building can employ a range of approaches to help foster and safeguard human rights in the digital age.

• These can be broadly grouped into four categories—governance and regulation, technical interventions, education, and strategic communications—that provide different opportunities and options to achieve impact, and which are characterised by different strengths, weaknesses, and implementation requirements.

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has commissioned RAND Europe to conduct a study aimed at identifying and scoping impactful ideas for interventions and activities to foster and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the digital age. The objective of this research is to help inform decision-making on future interventions to be implemented, supported, or funded by the UK FCDO and its partners. The study provides an overview of human rights in the digital age, the trends and challenges associated with them and the capacity-building approaches that have been adopted to foster and protect them. The report presents a series of recommendations to be considered by stakeholders involved in capacity-building efforts focusing on human rights.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Understanding HURDA

• Chapter Three

  Capacity-building approaches for HURDA

• Chapter Four

  Conclusions and recommendations