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This paper explores routes towards guiding principles for community-centred content creation and sheds light on relevant practices.

The call for nominations for the 14th annual African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG 2026) are now open. This year’s edition will take place in the last quarter of 2026 immediately prior to…

The training created a safe, encouraging environment where women could ask questions, practice new skills, and share their own business experience. One of the most important achievements of the…

We revisit the 2019 edition of GISWatch on “Artificial intelligence: Human rights, social justice and development” with a view to renewing our commitment to addressing these important issues and…

We can see in the Chinese AI dystopia that people are not in control of the technology, but they are subjected to a regime that sees technology as a means to expand and consolidate the state’s…

Grounded in lived realities, community-centred connectivity initiatives (CCCIs) are increasingly calling for a more active role in shaping the regulatory environment, advocating for the conditions…

Grounded in lived realities and backed by evidence, the articles from the series “Don’t ask AI, ask a peer” have provided a very practical demonstration of the ongoing violations, while pointing the…

The suspended event agenda presents areas of discourse on key digital economy topics, promotes digital rights and embeds multistakeholderism. The cancellation raises concerns about closing civic…

The 29th session of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) just took place in April 2026. It became a valuable opportunity to discuss the subsequent challenge of putting the…

The rise of AI-enabled monitoring, such as facial recognition systems at railway stations and predictive policing technologies used by police across different cities, has continued largely without…

Human rights have been the base and continue to be the base on which other laws including constitutions of nations are shaped and have a greater influence on how AI should be built and governed. We…

RightsCon26 is back for its 14th edition, this year taking place in Lusaka, Zambia, from 5 to 8 May 2026. This is an opportunity to APC's community come together around key themes, to share our…

On Earth Day, our Mariana Tamari addressed an urgent issue in our series: In the parallel universe created by the corporate sector, the imminent climate collapse simply does not exist. The promised…

"When I question whether AI can ever be ethical or feminist, even in some alternate timeline, it doesn’t come from cynicism for the sake of it, but from years of watching patterns repeat. The…