IGF 2022: Preparatory recommended resources

Here is a list of readings that we put together to help you explore some of the issues that APC will be focusing on and contribute to the discussions that will take place at the 2022 IGF:

• GISWatch 2021-2022 Sneak Peek! Read a selection of full-length reports on our digital futures post-pandemic

• Unpacking human rights and safety challenges and concerns in Ethiopia in the context of the 2022 global IGF

• BBC podcast on the report “The Open Internet as Cornerstone of Digitalisation” (The Open Internet for Africa)

Digital inclusion and access

• Financing mechanisms for locally owned internet infrastructure

• Leave no one behind: A people-centred approach to achieve meaningful connectivity

• Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community networks

• Expanding the telecommunications operators ecosystem: Policy and regulatory guidelines to enable local operators

• Bottom-up connectivity strategies: Community-led small-scale telecommunication infrastructure networks in the global South

• Protocol for Accompanying Community Network Deployments in Social Isolation Scenarios

• GenderIT.org edition - Infrastructures of resistance: Community networks hacking the global crisis

• Telecommunications reclaimed: A hands-on guide to networking communities

• Understanding community networks through comics

• Technological autonomy as a constellation of experiences: A guide to collective creation and development of training programmes for technical community promoters

Environmental justice

• At the interstice of digital rights and environmental justice: Four issue briefs to inform funding

• Global Information Society Watch 2020: Technology, the environment and a sustainable world: Responses from the global South

• Imagining a principle for a feminist internet focusing on environmental justice

• A guide to the circular economy of digital devices

• Selection of digital devices: Guide for users

• Ethical selection of our internet access provider: Guide for users

A feminist internet

• #OURVOICESATIGF: OVOF partners meet at the Internet Governance Forum 2022

• Alternate realities, alternate internets: African feminist research for a feminist internet

• Making a Feminist Internet: Movement building in a digital age in Africa

• GenderIT.org edition - Making a feminist internet: Movement building in a digital age in Africa

• White paper on feminist internet research

Futures of internet governance

• Why inclusive, transparent and accessible global digital governance is more crucial than ever

• Joint non-governmental stakeholders statement: Ensuring an IGF 2021 hybrid format that strengthens inclusiveness and balanced participation around the globe

• Joint letter: An open, interconnected and interoperable internet

• Letter of intent for engagement with the UN Secretary General's digital cooperation efforts

• Open letter on the interpretation of paragraph 93(a) of the UN Secretary-General's Roadmap on Digital Cooperation

• The EU's plans for its digital future

• APC's reflection on the Options for the Future of Global Digital Cooperation on Recommendation 5A/B of the UN High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation

Don't miss APC's policy explainers on key issues!

• A human rights-based approach to cybersecurity

• Artificial intelligence

• Disinformation

• Platform responsibility and accountability