About the Program
Many areas of human activity in the 21st Century take place within cyberspace. Those excluded from cyberspace are thereby excluded from a key domain of human endeavor. Exclusion may arise from many causes, including affordability, availability, discrimination, and concern for safety.
The “Dignity, Inclusion, Identity, Trust, and Agency” (DIITA) Industry Connections Program considers causes of exclusion which can be addressed by advancing technology for humanity through standardization and related solutions.
DIITA invites all relevant stakeholders to its open and consensus-building processes mainly aiming at:
- Ensuring that the conditions of on-line access safeguard our personal agency and dignity in ways that are possible off-line through the standardization lifecycle.
- Creating technical capabilities to identify ourselves on-line in a way that protects our privacy, our right to be forgotten, and our off-line ability to have multiple personas; identifying potential standardization opportunities in this vein and encouraging the development of practical, technical outputs to realize this goal.
- Developing proposals for technical and contextually applicable standards that enable the needs and voices of all.
Initiative Goals
To best advance the goal of designing and developing trust-enabling solutions for the global community, the Industry Connections program for Dignity, Inclusion Through Trust Agency seeks to cultivate and influence the key groups in the online ecosystem to:
- Have agency over our data and cyber-identity
- Provide the capacity to identify ourselves online in a way that protects our privacy, our right to be forgotten, and our off-line ability to have multiple personas
- Give a voice to the underserved and vulnerable with the creation of standards that are inclusive of their needs
- Encourage distributed ledger technology (e.g., Blockchain) standards that facilitate financial inclusion and other decentralized data sharing capabilities
- Develop a collaborative approach to technology and policy design regarding digital inclusion, trust, personal data, agency, security and privacy for all demographics
Initiative Reports
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) White Paper – Gender and Technology: The Case of the Energy Sector
This paper discusses how energy policies are gender blind and as a result, their lowered effectiveness and unintended effects.
Dignity, Inclusion, Identity, Trust and Agency (DIITA): Program Report
This workstream seeks to provide guidance and principles in examining dignity and agency in relation to digital inclusion.
Dignity and Agency in AI
This workstream seeks to provide guidance and principles in examining dignity and agency in relation to digital inclusion.
Active Workstreams
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI)
This workstream seeks to propose technical standards to integrate GESI in system design, policy and planning.
Transparent Design for Well-being
This workstream addresses issues at the intersection of technology and human factors.
Standard Projects Initiated from DIITA
Standard Projects
- P2998 – Recommended Practice for Building Accessible Applications
- P2989 – Standard for Authentication in a Multi-server Environment
- P1941.1 – Recommended Practice for Internet Grades of Service in Rural Areas
- P3337 – Standard for Requirements for Designing Accessible Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems (AICS) for well-Being
Graduated Workstreams
Governance in Identity
This workstream develops guidelines and principles as it relates to the governance and security of digital identity of users.
Internet Affordability & Accessibility
Focuses on suggesting suitable network designs with reference to technologies, identify parameters which will lead to cost reduction, growth pattern of subscribers in rural areas, technology based capital expenditure and break-even time based on different technologies.
Privacy and Respect in Virtual and Social Gaming
This workstream establishes a rewards system for good behavior in virtual and gaming platforms (industry guidance paper). Determine the viability of a technical standard that enables end-users to protect their “personal identity” outside of the playing environment.
Events
InDIITA 2024
15 November 2024, Hyderabad, INDIA
Join us at InDIITA 2024, The Open Space Workshop to be held in Bangalore. Building on the previous events’ success, this workshop is designed to engage relevant communities and stakeholders on important topics surrounding Dignity, Inclusion, Identity, Trust and Agency.
AuDIITA 2024
22 November 2024, Melbourne, Australia
Join us at AuDIITA 2024, The Workshop to be held in Melbourne, Australia. Building on the previous events’ success, this workshop is designed to engage relevant communities and stakeholders on important topics surrounding Dignity, Inclusion, Identity, Trust and Agency.
Previous Events
AuDIITA 2023
24 November 2023, Melbourne, Australia
Millions of people now rely on generative AI to do creative work for them, and society is learning the limits of trusting machines, from deep fakes to computer augmented social media content to bad legal advice.
This report below highlights the executive summary of the one-day workshop from the provocative and open discussions with subject matter experts in the field.
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AuDIITA 2022
28 September 2022, Melbourne, Australia
Many areas of human activity in the 21st Century take place within cyberspace. Those excluded from cyberspace are thereby excluded from a key domain of human endeavor. Exclusion may arise from many causes, including affordability, availability, discrimination, and concern for safety.
Find the report from the AuDIITA 2022 workshop organized by the ’Dignity, Inclusion, Identity, Trust and Agency’ (DIITA), an IEEE SA IC program given below:
InDIITA 2022
13-14 July 2022, Bangalore, INDIA
The third Open Space Workshop to be held in Bangalore, this event continues the work of helping to develop community based outcomes to address challenges of affordable accessibility, enabling digital agency rights and building a framework for protecting personal data.