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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…

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…

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…

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…