Presenting preview chapters from APC’s special GISWatch edition: WSIS+20: Reimagining horizons of dignity, equity and justice for our digital future
This special edition GISWatch, produced with IT for Change and WACC, considers the importance of WSIS as an inclusive policy and governance mechanism, and what, from a civil society perspective, needs to change for it to meet the challenges of today and meaningfully shape our digital future.
Language EnglishExploring gender and internet governance: GISWatch 2024 Special Edition reports
Placing "gender" in disinformation
Universal Periodic Review 47th session – Human rights in the digital context and the state of civic space in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
A gender review of the Global Digital Compact zero draft
APC at CSW68: Questioning power structures and advocating for women’s rights
Common Room joins the APC network: "Community network development for marginalised communities requires a long-term process"
BNNRC joins the APC network: “We have maintained a strong and strategic relationship with APC for over 23 years”
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication joins the APC network: “We have maintained a strong and strategic relationship with APC for over 23 years”
Meet Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC), a Bangladesh-based organisation focused on media development and building the capacity of civil society organisations on digital transformation.
Language EnglishCommon Room joins the APC network: "Community network development for marginalised communities requires a long-term process"
Meet the Common Room Networks Foundation, an Indonesia-based organisation committed to maintaining a space for freedom of expression and community empowerment that utilises arts and culture, ICTs and digital media.
Language EnglishA gender review of the Global Digital Compact zero draft
These comments were drafted in a collective process aimed at advancing the centrality of gender issues in the Global Digital Compact, ensuring that the governance, development and use of technology are inclusive and benefit women and girls, in all their diversity, around the world.
Universal Periodic Review 47th session – Human rights in the digital context and the state of civic space in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
This joint stakeholder report prepared by APC and Rudi International for the 47th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) focuses on human rights in the digital context and the state of civic space, including online, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
APC at CSW68: Questioning power structures and advocating for women’s rights
Our Women's Rights Programme's policy advocacy coordinator presents highlights of APC's multi-faceted participation and advocacy at the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) event this year, centred on promoting and sharing our work on human rights, specifically the rights of women and people of diverse genders and sexualities.
From the digital inequality paradox to marginalisation through digitalisation: GISWatch 2024 Special Edition reports
From the digital inequality paradox to marginalisation through digitalisation: GISWatch 2024 Special Edition reports
The following two reports from GISWatch 2024 Special Edition explore pathways for addressing the digital divide as well as the impacts of digitalisation when marginalised populations are overlooked in decision-making processes.
Placing "gender" in disinformation
This report responds to APC's belief that it important to characterise gendered disinformation, because it relates to a specific type of violation of women’s and gender-diverse people’s rights, in particular their freedom of expression, which is not properly encapsulated by other concepts.
Presenting preview chapters from APC’s special GISWatch edition: WSIS+20: Reimagining horizons of dignity, equity and justice for our digital future
Reclaiming a radically changed context: Introduction to GISWatch 2024 Special Edition
Reclaiming a radically changed context: Introduction to GISWatch 2024 Special Edition
Twenty years ago, stakeholders gathered in Geneva at the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Since the framework for cooperation was set out in the Geneva Plan of Action (2003), much has changed in the global digital context, while many recognised challenges still remain.