Abstract
One of the lessons taught by the Covid 19 epidemic experience is that the world physical streets, schools, markets, places of worship and other environments for human physical interactions could self-shutdown for months in order for man to preserve its existence. As the physical world was, literarily speaking, systematically shutting down in the year 2020, due to the rapid spreading of Covid 19, the digital world was gaining momentum, more citizens and expanding its usefulness and usage. Online streets where people could meet and interest were enlarged, many schools were opened in the digital world, markets became common feature online, places of worship became normal and meetings of all kind were held online, courts proceedings, movies premiere, dating, training… life simply moved into the digital world. This actuality unlined the importance of access to internet (as the door to the digital world) and instigated this article. This library-based research examines, in the main, the correlations between the basic human rights and right of access to the digital world via the internet. The study also suggests that right of access internet access encompasses the fundamental rights of freedom information, freedom of association and other basic human rights that are constitutionally protected by domestic laws of nations. The study also takes a peep at concept tagged as Internet of things (IoT), supports the debate that digital right is a distinct right that needs specific protection and argues that digital right enjoyment and enforcement are not limited to natural persons alone. The study concludes by emphasising the need to design international legal regime that will internationally protect the all-importance digital right of citizens from domestic interference by municipal authorities of nation states.
Highlights
Internet has become an indispensable space for distribution of information and most important part of life for interpersonal relationship in the world today
The study takes a peep at concept tagged as Internet of things (IoT), supports the debate that digital right is a distinct right that needs specific protection and argues that digital right enjoyment and enforcement are not limited to natural persons alone
Though there are communities of men that had never accessed internet possibilities and digital world, access to internet has made it possible to experience life in the digital world which has enhance the scope of human rights and enjoyment of fundamental rights
Summary
Internet has become an indispensable space for distribution of information and most important part of life for interpersonal relationship in the world today. It applies to women, girls, and those heavily impacted by the digital divide.[5] the United Nation in very clear terms affirms that: ‘the same rights that people have offline must be protected online, in particular freedom of expression, which is applicable regardless of frontiers and through any media of one’s choice, in accordance with articles 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.[6] These international recognition that social and digital media form an essential elements of freedom of speech and expression acknowledges the digital rights space and imposes a higher threshold of responsibility on the State to ensure its operation.[7] the use of the internet has become a means for social interaction which has given rise to the idea of ‘digital citizenship’, which is widely accepted as the engagement of community and democracy online.[8] The important roles assumed by the internet in humanity is unprecedented. This underlines the basicity of digital right advocacy: the government should recognise that right to access digital world is a human right and all digital citizens should learn how to use digital space responsibly and conscientiously
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