Today, a handful of US and Chinese transnational corporations dominate global AI systems. Driven by massive capital, semiconductor manufacturing dominance, and hyperscale cloud infrastructure, these ...

Cinemata, the Asia-Pacific civic media platform managed by EngageMedia, has been named in the final report of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan as an example of an ...

Floods, storms and droughts are affecting communities around the world, with rural and marginalised populations on the frontlines of these impacts. Communities struggling with these environmental ...

(DWeb). A web that is private, resilient, and beyond the control of a few central powers. Like forests, decentralized systems derive strength from what lies beneath the surface: dense networks of ...

This report by Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) with support from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) explores the growing threat of spyware and digital surveillance targeting women ...

Many digital divides still persist today, to the point that a third of the world’s population is still offline. Different statistics also show that the divide can be worse depending on the countries ...

For the past decade, internet connectivity has been praised for its potential to close the gender gap in Africa. Among the many benefits of digitalisation, digital tools enable groups that are ...

APC member 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media launched the report “Connection Interrupted” in English and Arabic. It details the Israeli control over the Palestinian ICT ...

Even before the adoption of the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Principles (AfDec) in 2014, the information and communications sector on the continent was already experiencing rapid ...

Every day the term "revenge porn" appears in newspaper headlines around the world and its translations are entering people’s vocabularies everywhere from China to France. Despite its growing ...

There exists a growing body of mainstream journalistic and scholarly work about disinformation which attempts to capture and expose the bounds of a “disinformation industry”, or “disinformation for ...