TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Transformer States
A Series on Digital Government and Human Rights
Through this project, the Center explores the digital transformation of the State and its impacts on the lives and rights of individuals, through in-depth interviews with practitioners and academics working on digital government and through blog posts by practitioners and scholars.
This series of interviews and blog posts draws attention to varied and indicative cases of the problems which can arise when governments’ digitalization efforts follow certain logics and move in certain directions.
Each episode features an in-depth interview with a practitioner or academic who is undertaking cutting-edge research or advocacy on the digital transformation of government. A curated series of blog posts accompanies these interviews, written by practitioners and scholars alike.
The series is guided by a set of central questions:
- What are the promises of digital transformation?
- What political ideals and motives are propelling these developments and who is involved in driving and producing these digital transformations?
- What human rights concerns have already emerged and are to be expected?
- And, what can and should be the response of the human rights movement, but also of governments, legislators, courts, and wider civil society, to ensure that digital government lives up to its promises and protects and fulfills the human rights of all?
The aim of this series is not only to allow participants to become better acquainted with topics at the intersection of digital government and human rights, but also to create an accessible, open-access repository of information and resources.
- Poor Enough for the Algorithm? Exploring Jordan’s Poverty Targeting System
- Regulating Artificial Intelligence: The Brazilian Approach
- The Curse of Cashlessness: Digital Exclusion in Sweden’s Cash-Free Society
- How Runaway Algorithms Brought Down the Dutch Government
- Risk Scoring Children in Chile
- Surveillance of the Poor in Singapore: Poverty in the “Smart City”
- Chosen by the Secret Algorithm: A Closer Look at Colombia’s Pandemic Payments
- Artificial Borders? The Digital and Extraterritorial Protection of “Fortress Europe”
- Left Behind: Defending Socioeconomic Rights in Uganda’s Move Towards Digital Government
- Social Credit in China: Promoting Trust or Digital Tyranny?
- Locked in! How South Africa came to rely on a digital social security payment monopolist
- For Welfare or for Profit? Aadhaar and private exploitation of the poor in India
- Digital Paternalism: Australia’s Cashless Debit Card Trials
- Seeing the Unseen: Inclusion and Exclusion in Kenya’s Digital ID System
- User-Friendly Digital Government? The Case of Universal Credit in the United Kingdom
- Poor Enough for the Algorithm? Exploring Jordan’s Poverty Targeting System
- Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Brazil
- Risk Scoring Children in Chile
- Singapore’s “smart city” initiative: one step further in the surveillance, regulation and disciplining of those at the margins
- Chosen by a Secret Algorithm: Colombia’s top-down pandemic payments
- Pilots, Pushbacks, and the Panopticon: Digital Technologies at the EU’s Borders
- Social Rights Disrupted: How Should Human Rights Organizations Adapt to Digital Government?
- Social Credit in China: Looking Beyond the “Black Mirror” Nightmare
- Locked in! How South Africa came to rely on a digital social security payment monopolist
- Putting Profit Before Welfare: A Closer Look at India’s Digital Identification System
- Digital Paternalism: A Recap of our Conversation about Australia’s Cashless Debit Card with Eve Vincent
- “We are not Data Points”: Highlights from our Conversation on the Kenyan Digital ID System
- User-friendly Digital Government? A Recap of Our Conversation About Universal Credit in the United Kingdom
- Hollow rights victories? Dutch struggles against digital injustice
- The Aadhaar Mirage: A Second Look at the World Bank’s “Model” for Digital ID Systems
- Sorting in Place of Solutions for Homeless Populations: How Federal Directives Prioritize Data Over Services
- “Killing two birds with one stone?” The Cashless COVID Welfare Payments Aimed at Boosting Consumption
- Experimental automation in the UK immigration system
- India’s New National Digital Health Mission: A Trojan Horse for Privatization
- A GPS Tracker on Every “Boda Boda”: A Tale of Mass Surveillance in Uganda
- “Leapfrogging” to Digital Financial Inclusion through “Moonshot” Initiatives
- A Digital Welfare Dystopia? Cautionary tales on digital government, human rights violations and the role of Big Tech
- I don’t see you, but you see me: asymmetric visibility in Brazil’s Bolsa Família Program
- Marketizing the digital state: the failure of the ‘Verify’ model in the United Kingdom
- Fearing the future without romanticizing the past: the role for international human rights law(yers) in the digital welfare state to be
- On the Frontlines of the Digital Welfare State: Musings from Australia
- Silencing and Stigmatizing the Disabled Through Social Media Monitoring
- Digital Identification and Inclusionary Delusion in West Africa
