THE EUROPEAN DIGITAL HUMANISM INITIATIVE (EUDHIT)

The European Digital Humanism Initiative (EUDHIT) aims to promote the creation of a more resilient, inclusive, and democratic society that fully aligns with the principles of Digital Humanism. It builds on previous work and EU policies including within the Digital Decade programme. EUDHIT will help realizing the EU Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles.

EUDHIT assembles DigHum organisations, experts, networks, and other communities that help realize the vision.

It supports industry on its path to creating, maintaining, and taking-up successful IT systems realizing the principles of digital humanism with concrete frameworks, standards, and tools.

It helps policymakers in supporting conditions fruitful for digital humanism and in developing a prosperous society with the help of digital humanism know-how.

It facilitates digital humanism innovation in startups and other businesses, guides IT investments towards digital humanism technologies and makes progress towards these objectives measurable with metrics and indicators.

EUDHIT joins ICT experts, scholars from sociology, economy, social innovation, law, ethics, anthropology, business and innovation studies and other disciplines into cross-disciplinary working groups on challenging open issues of digital humanism.

EUDHIT delivers frameworks, capabilities, tools, and recommendations to help realise a societally beneficial digital world to overcome today’s situation that leading researchers and intellectuals perceive as problematic, detrimental to European values and to social achievements.

Also, EUDHIT facilitates access to experts, know-how, training, and support for industry, intermediaries, and policy makers.