MNEMOSINE human digital heritage

For ethical, juridical, economical and technical reasons, Mnemosine include in its statuses a  Declaration of Human Digital Rights (DHDR) adapted to its missions of human digital heritage preservation. Mnemosine issued this declaration and is the first Organization having adopted it. As we are dealing with Heritage and Human Rights, one of the mission of Mnemosine will be to defend and to promote this text to the United Nations through UNESCO.

This DHDR is essential for Mnemosine actions. It is a pre-constitutive text, in the sense that it is a guideline for every of Mnemosine actions:

Ethically, the DHDR allows to better understand and to precise the links between the numerical economy and the human Rights. For instance, it states that each human being has rights to have access to a unique digital space, and that a fundamental right is property over this space.  It also states that any human being has the right to take part into the structure hosting his digital heritage. This is a definitive answer for instance to the recent Facebook privacy polemic, or also the Hadopi law concerns in France.

Juridically, the DHDR allows to give a framework to define the very notion of digital freedom but also digital property, two necessary tools to define  the notion of Digital Human Heritage. It forces also the juridical responsibility of the user with regards to the data he placed in his digital space, while removing any possibility to the hosting structure for being grant of any copyright.

Economically, this declaration states that anybody can promote his digital space, to just and favorable conditions of work.

Technically, it gives a framework to specify the information system that Mnemosine is entitled to build. A straight consequence of the DHDN is that each individual have a unique digital space, and he must be able to control all the read / write access over this space.