Vision

The vision for the Human Rights Navigator 1.0 collab is to enable volunteers to crowdsource the creation of open datasets related to human rights and use them to power a free web application that will enable users to compare human rights between locations. Human rights are diverse and complex, so our approach is to focus the first version of the app on navigating reproductive rights, including abortion rights. This is a highly-controversial area that impacts millions of US citizens, making it a timely and important place to start. The Human Rights Navigator V.1 is intended to support the following use cases:

• Enable women to identify where they can receive reproductive services
• Inform women where they may encounter issues when traveling
• Advise HR teams responsible for employee relocation
• Support decision-making on establishing business locations

Background

As political and legal landscapes shift and fragment, the ability for citizens and custodians to stay on top of human rights is becoming an increasing challenge. This can be particularly important for people travelling between countries, and even for those travelling to jurisdictions within their home nation.

Resources

• FTC Sues Kochava for Selling Data that Tracks People at Reproductive Health Clinics, Places of Worship, and Other Sensitive Locations
• Louisiana House removes murder charge for women from abortion bill
• Interstate Travel Post-Roe Isn’t as Secure as You May Think
• Flo Period-Tracking App Releases ‘Anonymous Mode,' but Users Should Still Be Cautious
• Privacy commissioner orders release of more northern Ontario abortion info to allow for 'meaningful debate'
• Woman sues San Francisco after DNA from rape kit was used to arrest her
• Human Rights: DEFINITIONS AND CLASSIFICATIONS
• Human Rights dataset

Collab Leaders

Deliverables

Stage 1: CONNECT

• Organizing meeting, empowering stewards, leads, share vision, get buy-in
• Design schema (tables)
• Add test data
• Add external data sources (not required)
• Connect to other datasets and reference tables

• Establish Governance groups
• Set access controls
• Test access controls

• Data entry
• UX Wireframe design
• Wireframe review
• Wireframe approval
• Collaborate on closed BETA
• Collaborate on open BETA
• Launch

Who should get involved

• Privacy Pros
• Rights Activists
• Data geeks

Timing

• Start: September 2022
• End: December 2022 (release V1.0 of app)

Data Governance

All applications built and/or hosted by the Data Collaboration Alliance observe the Zero-Copy Integration framework. The approach, which is a draft standard in Canada, eliminates databases and copy-based data integration from the development process. By eliminating copies, we are able to provide our members with a next-generation Data Collaboration Policy that includes rights to control access, custodianship, portability, and deletion of the data for which they are the rightful owner.

Data Privacy

Users of the Human Rights Navigator will not be required to create an account in order to access the app and will be encouraged to access it via privacy-enabling browser technology. No web cookies will be maintained and no data from the app will be shared with 3rd parties. See our Privacy Statement.