What’s Next: A Sneak Peek at upcoming digiRISE publications and activities!
The digiRISE project, launched in October 2022, is marking its last weeks of activities before formally concluding its scope of work at the end of October 2024. Over the course of the next week, we will be publishing the multiple outputs of our months-long work, a result of nourishing discussions and collaborations with experts from across the EU.
In its second year, digiRISE focused on collective redress and exploring available pathways to enforcing EU Charter rights. Following the completion of the Collective Redress Speaker series, we created a comprehensive questionnaire to map out the state of implementation of collective redress mechanisms in ten different EU Member States.
Despite the EU Charter’s considerable potential for protecting digital rights, there remains α reluctance to explore its use. This is the result of, at least partially, a lack of knowledge about the judicial pathways that can be utilised for the Charter’s enforcement especially in the digital sphere. Challenging technologically created, imposed, and amplified systemic injustices
With digiRISE, we address a clear need for a mapping and reporting exercise with the following objective: to map collective redress mechanisms in order to reveal the similarities and divergencies between national collective redress systems vis-à-vis the Representative Actions Directive in a comprehensive Collective Redress Database, which will become available soon!
The result of this research has culminated in the creation of a series of collective redress country reports and of a comparative report both of which will soon be published on our digiRISE webpage!
Ultimately, this work helped us map, understand, and reveal judicial pathways to using the EU Charter more efficiently in different jurisdictions. We collate these available judicial pathways in a comparative report and subsequently, a Pathways to Justice toolkit.
With this toolkit, we collate and present information, strategies, and best practices designed to protect the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in the digital sphere through strategic litigation.
Watch this space as we make all these resources available!
If you would like to know more about digiRISE and our upcoming resources, drop us a line at alexandra@digitalfreedomfund.org.
- Crooks, R., D’Ignazio, C., Hintz, A., Jansen, F., Jarke, J., Kaun, A., Lomborg, S., McQuillan, D., Obar, J. A., Pei, L., and Stefanija, A. P. (2024). 4: People’s Practices in the Face of Data Power. In Dialogues in Data Power, Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. DOI: 10.51952/9781529238327.ch004 ↩