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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…

The absence of women and gender-diverse people in tech design and decision making can be dangerous. This editorial was written for Global Voices’ Spotlight series “Gender Diversity”, which offers…

The National Strategy for Community-Centred Connectivity Initiatives in Nigeria is a comprehensive framework designed to help address the critical need for digital connectivity in underserved and…

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.

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…

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.