By Joy Liddicoat and Avri Doria (APC) December 2012 The Internet is a network that empowers at the edges, rather that the centre, rendering it a profoundly democratic and rights-fostering platform. Human rights are principles that seek to empower those
By Jeanette Hofmann, Christian Katzenbach, and Kirsten Gollatz, August 2014 This paper contributes to the recent move towards a more systematic reflection on the conceptual foundations of Internet governance. It is led by the question of how to define (Internet)
Across the continent, there are now critical questions being asked about how the Internet environment can be cultivated to best meet Africa’s social and economic development needs and goals. The development of the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms
In this contribution to the Third Annual Symposium of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) in Hyderabad, Heike Jensen on behalf of the OpenNet Initiative Asia gender team presents the research into Internet censorship and surveillance in Asia that
By Jac sm Kee From falling in love to falling into debt It is not an exaggeration to say that the internet has entered into almost all spheres of our lives today. From falling in love to falling into debt,
Twenty years ago, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a roadmap for gender equality, was adopted by 189 countries. Section J of the Beijing Platform addresses women and the media, which fits into the work of APC Women’s Rights
In the 2013 Global Information Society Watch’s institutional overview entitled Whose internet is it anyway? Shaping the internet – feminist voices in governance decision making, Heike Jensen calls the attention to the hegemonic framing of issues and agendas in the
GEM is an evaluation methodology that helps you integrate a gender analysis into the planning and/or evaluations of any social change initiative. GEM will help you determine whether your development project or programme is really improving the lives of the
8 November 2007 By Namita Malhotra It is obvious that the discourse around content regulation has shifted mostly towards the protection of children from harmful content and child pornography on the internet. Any references to gender-related concerns were dropped, including
The position paper presented by Jac sm Kee from APC WNSP at Women Claiming The Information Society (WOCTIS), 11 September 2005, Berlin. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approval of .xxx as a global top level domain