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DrFed is a web-based platform for developing and debugging implementations of ActivityPub – an open standard and protocol for decentralised networking. A team of four people from East Asia is…

As South Africa updates its digital policy landscape, community network practitioners are leading the push for inclusion. Read their insights on how to bridge connectivity gaps and ensure that the…

Discover three powerful stories of grassroots resilience. From water tracking in Nigeria and solar-powered pollution monitoring in South Africa, to community-led flood responses in Indonesia, this is…

In its first statement to the plenary of the newly created Global Mechanism on ICTs in the context of international security, APC emphasised that cyber threats, models and actors are different in…

Gendered disinformation is more than just false stories about women; it’s often deliberate. It leans on existing stereotypes and biases to question women’s credibility, especially during elections,…

This civil society report was developed collectively by members of civil society organisations from five coalitions – the Global Digital Rights Coalition, the Global Digital Justice Forum, the Global…

This submission responds to the Committee’s invitation to civil society and other stakeholders to comment on the Draft General Comment.

Every quarter, this special digest brings together stories and updates from across APC's network. Here's a glimpse of what our community has been working on over the past three months, from…

In July, the APC network actively engaged in the 2026 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum, alongside the first ever Global Dialogue on AI Governance. APC focused our contributions on…

In the Philippines, many communities still lack reliable and affordable internet, even though mobile signals reach most of the country’s islands. This new national strategy explores how community-…

APC’s position has been to focus on a human rights-based and gender-responsive approach to cybersecurity capacity building within the UN cyber processes – earlier the OEWG, and now the Global…

This article focuses on the strategies that our members are deploying to resist threats to civic spaces and to identify areas where urgent collective action is needed to defend digital rights in the…

As Meta deepens its AI ambitions, the company risks reproducing a familiar pattern within the platform economy: extracting immense value from Global South markets while treating the safety of those…

APC's intervention highlights the need to reframe the conversations on digital governance to talk about communities not as a “last mile” policy problem, but a “first mile” priority and…

This policy brief is derived from the implementation of the work on social return on investment for community-centred connectivity initiatives.

The community of Daleside in Randvaal, Gauteng, in South Africa, is facing a problem of pungant odours derived from air contamination where a community connectivity initiative helped to address by…

AI systems are not neutral and are both reproducing and amplifying discrimination, exclusion, surveillance, exploitative labour practices, oppression, human rights violations and war crimes..Along…

This report by Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) explores the growing threat of spyware and digital surveillance targeting women in Uganda.

The Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) and the Global South Alliance (GSA) call on the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance to deliver on a Global South-led AI paradigm, anchored in a vision of…