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Human-Centred Digital Sovereignty: Explorative Conceptual Model and Ways Forward

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In recent years, both authoritarian and democratic states have started using the term digital sovereignty as a basis for their digital policies. Although the interpretations and resulting policies may differ, the autonomy and sovereignty of individuals and their communities are at stake. Current political discourses mainly focus on governmental and corporate actors and their aspirations to control the digital sphere. Given the importance of this term, scholars in our community have begun to engage with the discourse. However, there is still a lack of dissemination, coming with a lack of conceptual models to explain, explore, and research human-centred digital sovereignty. Inspired by claims for human-centred digital sovereignty, this paper takes up the discourse and creates an explorative conceptual model that aims to guide early research within HCI, support an understanding of the field, and helps to identify relevant cases. Moreover, we discuss key challenges and potential ways forward.

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Lawo, D., Neifer, T., Esau, M., Stevens, G. (2023). Human-Centred Digital Sovereignty: Explorative Conceptual Model and Ways Forward. In: da Silva, H.P., Cipresso, P. (eds) Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications. CHIRA 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1997. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49368-3_6

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