Policy Brief - INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND CYBER DIPLOMACY THROUGH THE PARIS CALL: REACHING OUT HUMAN RIGHTS

The weakened control of the cyber domain by national institutions and international regimes represents an opportunity to circulate information and capital in an underhand manner, especially under emergencies like the Covid-19 pandemic. The circularity of information takes place intensively, while regulatory efforts take another step forward on the regulatory mechanisms of cyber interactions with the Paris Call initiative and corresponding working groups. But, though the incentives for a more intense economic fluidity with straightforward directives are under course, they cannot attend specifically human rights imbalances towards this scene.

Whereas we should recognize the effort to make this environment socially harmonious, the way out for a more efficient response involves resilience plans, and the use of interdependence counterbalances to guarantee compliance with regulations that can directly affect human rights. On one side, the spreading working groups mechanism used by the Paris Call after-Covid-19 pandemic may be a way to surpass limited Global North achievements considering the multistakeholder approach, but also, the aggregation of Global South institutions to uphold the commitment to areas and interdependent nexuses still not covered. On the other, the initiative still misses individual and collective human rights on dimensions that cross the efforts undertaken.