What I learned during this year's Global Gathering
WSIS+20 Outcome Document adopted: The wins and regrets from a civil society and Global South perspective
"If economic and social development are not placed at the heart of the next phase of WSIS, we risk perpetuating a new, quality-based digital divide and missing the opportunity to harness…
A tree is known by its fruit: Growing community-centred connectivity for inclusion, equality and sustainability
This paper situates CCCIs within the broader dialogue on just transitions and innovative financing for inclusive growth.
Change in Motion: Our community shaping technologies for social, gender and environmental justice (Edition 02)
Defending social, gender and environmental justice required a lot of resilience from our members, associates and partners in 2025. Yet this edition of our newsletter carries strong messages of hope,…
Gender in Digital Coalition statement on Revision 2 of the WSIS+20 Outcome Document
APC statement to the UN General Assembly WSIS+20 High-Level Meeting
"If economic and social development are not placed at the heart of the next phase of WSIS, we risk perpetuating a new, quality-based digital divide and missing the opportunity to harness…
Seeding change in 2025: Weaving power, care and imagination across digital justice movements
This year’s Seeding Change stories explore how communities are organising to reclaim technology as a shared resource, defend rights in hostile environments, and imagine futures beyond extractive and…
Myanmar Internet Project in court to defend rights of telecoms users: “The act of resistance is already a win”
APC member Myanmar Internet Project (MIP) and partners have undertaken legal action against telecoms provider Telenor, challenging the company’s role in disclosing sensitive personal data of 18…
Seeding change: LaLibre.net weaves a network of digital rights defenders in Ecuador
In Ecuador, threats to privacy, freedom of expression and digital security intersect with feminist, Indigenous and environmental struggles. In this context, LaLibre.net Tecnologías Comunitarias has…
Beyond the technical: Collective dreams that transform realities
Discover how the Central American Telecommunications and Broadcasting Training Programme for Indigenous and Rural Communities was born from a collective dream. A dream that, beyond the technical,…
Beyond the algorithm: Weaponised technologies and human rights under digital siege
Across conflict zones and fragile democracies, technologies once imagined as tools of empowerment and exploration now serve as instruments of surveillance, repression and even killing. A series of…
What I shared about digital commons and the NGI0 grant programme during this year's Global Gathering
Bringing digital tools to popular sectors in Argentina for the past 30 years
The civil society association Nodo TAU has been working for three decades to bring information and communications technologies (ICTs) to social organisations and popular sectors in the city of…
UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development study on "Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Rights and the Right to Development": APC and Derechos Digitales joint submission
Where artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming societies, economies and politics alongside reshaping the ways in which culture is created, promoted and experienced, it is also a reminder of how…
Submission by the Association for Progressive Communications to the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders for the Human Rights Council 61st session report “Raising their voices: HRDs respond to the human rights crisis”
This submission, informed by experiences of defenders in the Global South, calls on the Special Rapporteur to highlight that current standards and mechanisms, risk becoming irrelevant unless they are…
Voices from Latin America: Creating secure digital spaces, especially for the most vulnerable communities
The recent regional meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Governance Forum (LACIGF) gave us the chance to ask our members Colnodo and Derechos Digitales to share what gives them hope,…
New GenderIT.org edition: Weaponised technologies and human rights under digital siege
Call for proposals: GISWatch 2026 special edition with Safety for Voices
The missing link: Cybersecurity and technology-facilitated gender-based violence in the Women, Peace and Security agenda
This year marks the 25th anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, which launched the Women, Peace and Security agenda. This milestone offers a critical opportunity for the…
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