From sea waves to rivers: Goodbye to Paulo Lima, the fire between waters

1 month 1 week ago

At APC we join in the deep sorrow for the premature passing of Paulo Lima, a dear friend and ally who had a long history in connecting communities through ICTs and spent the last decade bringing internet connectivity to Indigenous and riverine populations in the Brazilian Amazon region.

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How the global internet governance movement began and evolved in the last two decades

1 month 2 weeks ago

How did the world begin to establish the internet's basic governance rules and try to enable universal access? Carlos Afonso, director of Nupef and co-founder of APC, offers a historical look at the uneven global internet governance movement, from the 1998 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) meeting to the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and till the 2007 Internet Governance Forum (IGF). 

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Job call: APC is looking for a Feminist Tech eXchange (FTX) project coordinator

1 month 3 weeks ago

The FTX project coordinator will contribute to building the capacity of feminist movements and gender non-conforming and queer people from the global South to engage with the internet and technology with care, agency, curiosity, playfulness and safety. The deadline for applications is 22 April.

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Inside the Digital Society: The future is another country

1 month 3 weeks ago

New applications like ChatGPT based on AI and large language models are likely to be transformative, a step change in technology like the internet was 30 years ago, but much faster. The technology is now out of the bag and can't be uninvented, and we should move swiftly to figure out its implications, deployment and governance.

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Diversity in telecoms policy and regulation advocacy spaces

1 month 3 weeks ago

Women have historically been underrepresented in the telecommunications policy and regulation spaces, but there has been a recent push to increase diversity in these fields, as Josephine Miliza of APC member organisation KICTANet reports.

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Democracy is dying in digital darkness

1 month 3 weeks ago

Last year saw the highest number of internet shutdowns ever recorded. Such enforced digital darkness is a slippery slope of easy authoritarianism that we see spreading globally, one that countries like India, with the world's highest number of shutdowns, are using to gain undemocratic compliance from their citizens.

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Community networks newsletter: From recognition to action

1 month 4 weeks ago

Around the world, communities are building alternatives to bridge the digital divide. And their contribution has been recognised recently: in this edition, we can discover tangible examples. Welcome to the 56th monthly round-up of developments impacting your community-based initiatives.

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An architecture for destruction? What 8 January in Brazil tells us about the use of social media platforms against democracy

1 month 4 weeks ago

On 8 January 2023, there was a shocking and violent coup attempt in Brazil that came on the heels of years of accelerating mass disinformation and fake news, reinforced through social networks and messaging apps. Our member and board director analyses this urgent test case of how a democracy can fight such information corruption and hold digital platforms accountable for moderating illegal content.

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