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This section features articles that are meant to inform readers about perspectives, issues and debates around certain topics considered relevant within the ICT arena, as well as highlights about all those activities and themes that matter to the APC network and the spaces we engage in.

The new digital tracking bracelets: How governments are using cybercrime laws to target women and LGBTQIA+ people 08 January 2024 By Gaurav Jain

Governments everywhere are using cybercrime laws to criminalise women and LGBTQIA+ people, increase surveillance and reduce freedom of expression. A new Derechos Digitales and APC report discusses 11 such cases in nine countries and calls for rethinking the nature of these laws.

"This attack has brought all human rights frameworks into question”: Experts speak about genocide and the internet in Gaza 19 December 2023 By APCNews

7amleh, SMEX and APC organised a webinar to commemorate Human Rights Day and discuss the ongoing violations affecting civil society, the internet and communications in Gaza. Several civil society experts weighed in on pressing issues of concern in the current crisis. 

Learn how to get past an internet shutdown
Learn how to get past an internet shutdown 13 December 2023 By Gaurav Jain

Last year the highest number of internet shutdowns were recorded in the world, and we must equip defenders with strategies to bypass such blocking. APC has developed a game-based training to help understand internet infrastructure, shutdown procedures and circumvention tools.

Call for organisations to nominate and host regional gender coordinators for the Local Networks initiative
Call for organisations to nominate and host regional gender coordinators for the Local Networks initiative 12 December 2023 By APCNews

The Local Networks initiative invites host institutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America that are already working with community networks to apply and nominate one candidate for the position of gender coordinator in the region of their scope.

Call for organisations to nominate and host regional capacity-building coordinators for the Local Networks initiative
Call for organisations to nominate and host regional capacity-building coordinators for the Local Networks initiative 12 December 2023 By APCNews

The Local Networks initiative invites host institutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America that are already working with community networks to apply and nominate one candidate for the position of capacity-building coordinator in the region where they work.

Call for organisations to nominate and host Asia policy coordinator for the Local Networks initiative
Call for organisations to nominate and host Asia policy coordinator for the Local Networks initiative 12 December 2023 By APCNews

The Local Networks initiative invites host institutions in Asia* that are already working with community networks to apply and nominate one candidate for the position of policy coordinator.  Find out more. 

Bringing a gender justice lens to the UN's Global Digital Compact
Bringing a gender justice lens to the UN's Global Digital Compact 11 December 2023 By Maja Romano

To be relevant, effective and sustainable, the Global Digital Compact must adopt a human rights-based approach and be intentional about putting inclusivity at the centre of all recommendations.

What makes connectivity meaningful? Some voices from the IGF
What makes connectivity meaningful? Some voices from the IGF 11 December 2023 By Débora Prado and Nils Brock

This year’s theme of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was “The Internet We Want – Empowering All People”. If the theme were a question – What is the internet we want? – voices from a series of short interviews at the forum highlighted different a...

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