13 June 2012 By Kateřina Fialová Co-author Sonia Randhawa Thirty people from six continents met at the APC “Dialogue on digital security and women’s human rights defenders” to discuss regional and global trends on digital security, freedom of expression and
Source: Apc.org By Alex Comninos (APC), June 2012 The internet, social networks and mobile phones enhance human freedoms to come together around social, political and economic issues, to build associations and networks, and to assemble online to advocate for and
Source: GenderIT.org Towards internet intermediary responsibility Carly Nyst on 26 Nov 2013 A key pillar of the internet freedom movement is the concept that internet intermediaries should be immune from liability for any content hosted on their sites. Yet there
This breakthrough study carried out in Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa & USA looks at how the internet plays host to critical information about sex education, health, fighting sex discrimination and defining one’s own sexuality. It debunks the commonly-held view
Exploring Zero-Rating Challenges: Views from Five Countries by Carolina Rossini, Vice President of International Policy at Public Knowledge and Taylor Moore, 2015 Google Policy Fellow. This paper examines zero-rating practices on a global scale, focusing on their effects in five
Source: GenderIT.org The women’s programme of world’s oldest progressive internet network outlines its priority issues for the 12th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights in Development that will gather over 2000 women’s rights activists from around the world from April
17 September 2010 By Nyx McLean Source: GenderIT.org It was in a dynamic coalition session on freedom of expression and freedom of the media on the internet that Schubert announced that the domain name, “dot gay” was in the pipeline.
30 September 2013 Source: GenderIT.org By erika The Latin American Regional Forum on Internet Governance was held in August, and brought together internet experts from government, business, and civil society. As a feminist from Mexico who documents cases of technology-related
by Avri Doria Download the women’s rights, gender and internet governance paper here. Written specifically to frame to discussions of the gigX, this issue paper focuses on the question of the degree to which gender and women’s rights feature in
This briefing, published on the two-year anniversary of the publication of the first Snowden revelations, warns that governments are looking to maintain and expand mass surveillance, despite the practice being condemned as a human rights violation by courts, parliaments and