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A tree is known by its fruit: Growing community-centred connectivity for inclusion, equality and sustainability

Community networks and community-centred connectivity initiatives (CCCIs) stand at the critical intersection of digital ...
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WSIS+20 Outcome Document adopted: The wins and regrets from a civil society and global south perspective

The High-Level Meeting on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information ...
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Change in Motion: Our community shaping technologies for social, gender and environmental justice (Edition 02)

They developed free technologies to monitor the environment in Nigeria and Colombia. We celebrated the long-awaited release ...
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First Africa Symposium on Technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence

The First Africa Symposium on Technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence (TFGBV) will bring together stakeholders from across the continent to share knowledge, explore regional best practices and ...
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What I learned during this year's Global Gathering

I participated in the Global Gathering 2025 at Estoril, Portugal, in September this year. It is a kind of digital craft fair, a dynamic meeting of digital rights defenders from more than 144 countries ...
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7amleh-The Arab Center for Social Media Advancement

7amleh-The Arab Center for Social Media Advancement is a non-profit organisation aimed at enabling Palestinian and Arab civil society to effectively utilise the tools of digital advocacy through ...
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Digital inclusion

Many digital divides still persist today, to the point that a third of the world’s population is still offline. Different statistics also show that the divide can be worse depending on the countries ...
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Internet governance

The publicness of the internet is at the core of power disputes in the internet governance ecosystem. The problem is two fold: The rise and consolidation of global internet platforms and the trend of ...
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Gender in Digital Coalition statement on Revision 2 of the WSIS+20 Outcome Document

The Gender in Digital Coalition presents its comments on Revision 2 of the WSIS+20 Outcome Document. Throughout the entire ...
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Changement en marche : Notre communauté élabore les technologies pour la justice sociale, de genre et environnementale (Édition 02)

Navegando Libres por la Red est un programme organisé par Taller de Comunicación Mujer, basé en Équateur, qui vise à ...
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Myanmar Internet Project in court to defend rights of telecoms users: “The act of resistance is already a win”

Htaike Htaike Aung, director of Myanmar Internet Project, spoke to APC about the legal processes currently underway and their significance for activists in Myanmar and globally. This interview has ...
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Uganda 2021 general elections: The internet shutdown and its ripple effects

This article was originally published by APC member Unwanted Witness, who also issued a statement condemning the internet shutdown as a direct attack on democracy and a violation of human rights. On ...