Irene Khan's report to the Human Rights Council cites the Asia-Pacific civic media platform alongside Mastodon and MyData Global as a model for democratic, rights-respecting platform design.

Rather than offering a fixed definition, the CIM concept is proposed as a relational and principle-based framework that asks what media serves a community's own agenda.

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2026 will take place 6 – 9 July 2026, bringing together stakeholders from diverse backgrounds with a view to advancing the implementation of…

The NLnet Foundation announced 67 new projects have been awarded grants today as part of the Next Generation Internet initiative, covering an entire technology stack from trustworthy open hardware,…

AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed and scale of military assaults in a manner that creates significant new risks for accountability in conflict and risks…

After nearly 10 years of uninterrupted implementation of back-to-back calls, NLnet explained that this pause will allow them to take stock of NGI Zero and prepare for the emerging challenges that…

Operating in an area prone to floods, the team from Digital Rurals developed an AI-powered prediction and alert platform. Meanwhile, Kijiji Yeetu is serving communities disproportionately affected by…

With increasingly complex digital rights environments and contexts, DRAPAC provides a consistent space where challenges can be discussed collectively and where frameworks can be developed through…

The Digital Rights Asia-Pacific Assembly (DRAPAC) is gearing up for its 2026 edition, this year taking place in Manila, Philippines, from 8 to 10 June.

This series focuses on the experiences and perspectives of individuals and communities who are often absent from dominant technological narratives.

The shock of the cancellation of RightsCon in Zambia this year is still reverberating across civil society, with many viewing it as unprecedented. In this piece, voices from APC’s community around…

We are continuing the APC series Building a Free Internet of the Future. For this latest interview, we are joined by Nizar Kerkeni, NGI0’s regional representative in Tunisia. The overall scope of…

While the wires, towers and solar panels of community-centred connectivity initiatives (CCCIs) provide the “how”, it is the local services that provide the “why” when it comes to being connected,…

Across APC’s network, there are member organisations who have spent years building community-centred and rights-respecting tech alternatives rooted in social and environmental justice alongside…