With the increasing digitalization of our societies, data has become a key economic resource, which through collection and processing is transformed into algorithms and artificial intelligence, of high economic value. Today this resource is appropriated by global data corporations for their own benefit, without seeking permission or offering any recompense, as a de facto right. Should we continue to allow corporations to own our data? Or, rather, should we, as individuals and communities, be able to take advantage of them, according to the needs we establish?

The Just Net Coalition (JNC) proposes that there is an urgent need to establish legal regimes that assert the rights and ownership of people over their data, both individually and collectively, as well as greater control over the techno-structures within which data and intelligence operate. They also call for the need for democratic governance structures of the digital sphere, ranging from the local to the global.

In the following Manifesto, presented publicly on November 25 in the framework of the Internet Governance Forum in Berlin, JNC presents this proposal through 16 principles, which it offers as input to open a debate, both at the international and at the national and local levels. (ALAI)

https://justnetcoalition.org/digital-justice-manifesto.pdf