**Appendix A. Semi-Structured Questionnaire to Gather 13 CCDR Smart City Representatives/Strategists' Responses (November 2020)**

1. CHARACTERISATION

Q0. Could you please provide the details to the following questions?

	- 2. UNDERSTANDING OF DIGITAL RIGHTS IN YOUR CITY:

Q1. Which is the most important priority of your city regarding digital rights? (Max 50 words).

Q2. From 1 to 5, being 1 low and 5 high, how could you rank each of the following five actions among the CCDR priority areas for your city?


Q3. Is your city actively working on to raise citizens awareness on the need to protect their digital rights?


Q4. If yes, how? What actions are being implemented by your public authority to raise awareness on the need for protecting digital rights? If no, are there any particular barriers that you would like to highlight? (Max 50 words)?

Q5. Is there any specific contextual aspect that could leverage the relevance of digital rights in your city? Which one? (Max 50 words).

3. PRIORITY OF DIGITAL RIGHTS IN YOUR CITY:

Q6. From 1 to 5, being 1 low and 5 high, please rank each of the following five digital rights for your city?


Q7. Are you embedding the formulation of digital rights in ongoing initiatives or projects?


Q8. Are you embedding the formulation of digital rights in internal dynamics?


Q9. How do you think the strategic implementation of these digital rights will evolve in your city in a year time? (Choose one). We expect to achieve:


Q10. Who is the most critical stakeholder in your city (other than the municipality) to achieve more protection for digital rights and why? (Mention just one please and answer why it is the most critical Max 50 words).

Q11. Could you rank the way stakeholders in your city create or support the existing ecosystem for Digital Rights protection (seeing from the Penta Helix framework) [95]. How would you rank the following stakeholder groups-helixes (being 1 low relevancy and 5 high relevance).

