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…
Grants for 45 projects working on shared digital infrastructure
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…
In an age of disinformation, access to communication is a matter of climate justice
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…
Community networks newsletter: Meaningful steps for an inclusive and sustainable community-centred connectivity movement
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Chrystalleni Loizidou on meaningful participation in a free/libre technology funding programme
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…
A mesh of connections, care and community tech: Reflections from the Global Gathering 2025
Across conversations, a recurring theme emerged: the need for alternative infrastructures. Participants spoke passionately about open-source platforms, and distributed systems that prioritise care…
Kenya Community-Centred Connectivity Initiatives. Strategic Plan 2025-2027
From silence to connectivity: Nigerian women building digital pathways to justice
In this blog, the author share her learnings and reflections from visiting communities and interacting with women across several Nigerian states - Bauchi, Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Port Harcourt and Kaduna…
#NoTechForWar: Networking resistance to #TakeBackTechJoy for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence 2025
APC submission to the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls: Gender equality, the digital space and the age of artificial intelligence
What immediate steps should be taken – at the national, regional or international level – to ensure that AI is developed and deployed in ways that advance the rights of women and girls? This is one…
New GenderIT.org edition: A decolonial feminist analysis on technology-facilitated gender-based violence
This edition provides critical insights that have emerged from the 10 research projects under the Feminist Internet Research Network's third cycle. They illustrate the complexities of technology…
Updated self-affirmation from the Brazilian National Committee of Community Networks
Universal Periodic Review 52st session – Stakeholder report: Human rights in the digital context in Namibia
This stakeholder report focuses on key issues relating to human rights in the digital context in Namibia, including digital connectivity and inclusion, freedom of speech and expression online and…
Summary: Human rights in the digital context in Namibia
The APC stakeholder report focuses on key issues relating to human rights in the digital context in Namibia, including digital connectivity and inclusion, freedom of speech and expression online and…
Another false dawn for Africa? Deconstructing the AI for Development narrative
This article critically examines the dominant “AI for Development” narrative in Africa, arguing that the continent’s engagement with global AI is shaped by unequal power relations that limit its…
Growing in a network: Reminiscing about TIC A.C.’s journey
The 10th anniversary of the first Indigenous concession for telecommunications provided an opportunity to reminisce about the road travelled by TIC A.C., inviting us to look back on the historic…
Seeding change: Community networks cultivating a future where technology and social and environmental care grow together
Access to low-cost monitoring kits is allowing community networks to collect local environmental data – to better understand phenomena like deforestation or agricultural burning. As the world follow…
Reflections on the impact of digital infrastructure and racism in traditional communities
This essay draw a connection between digital infrastructures and (non)access to the internet as an element in centuries of predatory exploitation. The author suggests that the current methods used to…
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