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This paper examines the environmental impact of digital technology, focusing on carbon emissions, electronic waste, and hidden costs. It also proposes solutions at the national, industry, and individual levels to mitigate these impacts.
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Explanatory Memorandum: Absence of Insurance Coverage for Platform Economy Workers
This explanatory memorandum addresses the legal issue of the absence of insurance coverage for platform economy workers in light of the new Social Insurance and Pensions Law. It provides an overview of the general legal context and analyzes the reasons why many freelancers are not subject to the law’s provisions, with a focus on workers in digital service platforms.
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Platform Economy: The Future of Work in the Digital Age
This paper examines various issues related to the platform economy, focusing on the Egyptian context. The paper highlights key players, analyzes growth factors, and addresses associated challenges.
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Towards a More Equitable Digital Future: Data Justice and Human Rights Principles
This paper aims to investigate the potential of integrating data justice principles with digital and human rights frameworks. It examines how this integration can facilitate the identification of biases based on ethnicity and gender within digital environments. By exploring this intersection, the paper aims to contribute to the promotion of a more just and equitable digital future.
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The Impact of Digital Transformation on Economic and Social Rights
This paper discusses the impact of digital transformation on economic and social rights. It focuses on three main rights: the right to education, the right to work, and the right to healthcare.
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Progressive Communications as a Tool for Advancing Gender Equality
This paper seeks to provide an overview of the intersection between progressive communications and gender. It discusses the role that progressive communications can play in supporting efforts to achieve gender equality, including the opportunities available and the means to support them.
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The EU AI Act: Objectives, Structure, and Key Provisions
This paper discusses the EU AI Act’s objectives, structure, and most important characteristics. It also deals with the general and special requirements applicable to AI systems. Finally, the paper sheds light on the Act’s most important provisions in addition to the institutions it establishes.
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From Access to Empowerment: Internet Access as a Basic Right
This paper discusses the call to recognize the right to internet access as one of the basic human rights in today’s world. It attempts to answer two questions: Why must we establish a basic right to internet access? How do we reach a comprehensive definition of this right to ensure that access to the Internet is universal without discrimination?
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The Role of the ICT Sector in Empowering Egyptian Women
This paper explores Egypt’s ICT sector’s potential to economically empower Egyptian women. It focuses on how the sector can create more employment opportunities for women. Additionally, the paper discusses the potential of the ICT sector to socially empower women, which can further contribute to narrowing the gender gap.
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Privacy-First Marketing: Principles, Applications, and Challenges
This paper delves into the privacy-marketing approach. It examines the evolution of data protection laws and regulations and the rise of PFM as a response to change. This is followed by an analysis of the importance of PFM and its principles, with a particular focus on data minimization, purpose limitation, consent, and transparency.
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Regulating AI: Approaches to Ensuring Safe Use of the Technology
This paper seeks to provide a simplified picture of the complex scene of the efforts to regulate AI technology and industry. It poses the question of whether regulating AI is a necessity and asks questions about who should be responsible for setting the regulatory frameworks for AI and what aspects such regulatory frameworks should address. The paper also discusses the potential effects of regulating AI on human rights.
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The Impact of Online Surveillance on Press Freedom
This paper seeks to shed light on the impact of online surveillance on press freedom. The paper discusses the challenges that online surveillance poses to investigative journalism and freedom of information. The paper also addresses the impact of online surveillance on journalists and the challenges they face in the digital age.
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Data Protection Center: Masaar’s Proposal on the Executive Regulations for the Data Protection Law
This paper seeks to present a practical proposal for the formation of the Personal Data Protection Center, which would be the responsible body for implementing the Personal Data Protection Law. The paper proposes standard frameworks for the rules that should be followed. It also points out the concerns that should be considered to ensure proper implementation of the law.
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