Invisible Surveillance: How Does Digital Technology Threaten Workers’ Rights?

This paper examines how digital technology is impacting workers’ rights in the modern workplace. It focuses on three key areas: employment policies, workplace surveillance, and performance appraisal. The paper also outlines essential digital rights for workers, emphasizing fairness, privacy, transparency, and just treatment in the workplace.

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The Future of Smart Cities: Economic and Social Challenges and Opportunities for Development Justice

This paper aims to present a balanced view of Egypt’s smart cities program, discussing it as a strategic option while highlighting its objectives and current vision. The paper also reviews the Egyptian government’s partnerships in this program and discusses their potential impacts, in addition to the most important precautions needed to balance the expected positive outcomes and potential negatives of the program.

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Digital Technology and Its Impact on Cultural Rights: New Opportunities and Challenges

This paper explores the interplay between digital technology and cultural rights, examining how heritage and cultural production are evolving in the digital world. It analyzes the challenges to protecting these rights and proposes a framework for safeguarding them amid technological advancements.

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Digital Rights: Bridging the Gap Between the Real and Virtual Worlds

This paper offers a theoretical framework for understanding digital rights. It examines the development of the concept, explores the underlying values and principles, and discusses the rights that facilitate individual participation in the digital world, particularly the right to internet access. Finally, it discusses how human rights can be reframed in the context of a digital world.

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Digital Technology: New Opportunities, Persistent Challenges in Developing and Poor Countries

This paper explores the potential of digital technology to help developing economies catch up with advanced industrial economies. It examines how digital technology can boost economic and social development, but also highlights the challenges these countries face in adopting and using this technology effectively.

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Between Reality and Legislation: Issues with the Law Regulating the Technologists Syndicate

This paper seeks to provide a critical reading of the law establishing a professional syndicate for technologists. The paper also reviews the structure and philosophy of the law, along with some of its most important provisions, and offers a critique of the law by highlighting the main problematic issues within its articles.

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