In recent years, community-centred connectivity initiatives (CCCIs) have become increasingly recognised as an innovative, bottom-up solution to address the persistent digital divide. They provide ...

This paper examines the impact of the African Declaration on shaping digital rights discourse and policy in Africa, focusing ...

2024 marked the seventh year of the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) since its inception in 2019. In April 2024, we ...

Each partner examined TFGBV through an intersectional feminist perspective. Concurrently, in multiple international conferences, FIRN has fostered a broader comprehension of the discussions ...

The Senate of the Philippines approved a priority bill on 5 February to increase private sector and community investment in ...

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) welcomes the call by the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression for written ...

As Access Now prepares to host the 13th edition of RightsCon, the APC network is gearing up to participate actively in the event both in-person and remotely. Hosted in East Asia for the first time, ...

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 ...

How are APC members improving their communities' lives? In this section we're highlighting stories of impact and change by our members, supported by APC sub-granting. In this weekly column, ...

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 ...

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 ...