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"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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

The NGI Zero Commons Fund just announced the selection of 45 new projects to be supported and help to build the digital commons: shared digital technologies that serve not the few but are available…

The Amazon, which has for centuries been narrated as a territory of exploitation, now demands its place as a territory of enunciation, because its peoples are ready to be heard. This article…

Continuing our monthly interview series "Building a Free Internet of the Future", we are now in conversation with Chrystalleni Loizidou, an NGI0 regional representative in Cyprus. She makes…

Across conversations, a recurring theme emerged: the need for alternative infrastructures. Participants spoke passionately about open-source platforms, and distributed systems that prioritise care…