The Digital HR - 3G project will examine the development of digital human rights and the policy choices behind them from five methodological perspectives:
- Historical study of the evolution of digital human rights and of choices made by norm entrepreneurs and law-makers between different protection frameworks;
- Analytical study of protection gaps, overlaps and conflicts across traditional and digital human rights and alternative arrangements;
- Comparative study juxtaposing developments in the field of digital human rights against analogous development in international human rights law, with a view to identifying paradigms of normative and institutional change;
- Empirical analysis through interviews of the perceived effectiveness and legitimacy in the eyes of stakeholders of the said developments ;
- Evaluation of the developments under theories of rights, global governance, business ethics and corporate responsibility and rational choic