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Inside the Digital Society: Greening the digital society
Inside the Digital Society: Greening the digital society 21 September 2020 David Souter

It’s the end of this strange COVID Northern summer / Southern winter. Time for this blog for APC to resume its weekly exploration ‘Inside the Digital Society’.

Allied Media Conference 2020 Session: Whose Internet? Our Internet!
Allied Media Conference 2020 Session: Whose Internet? Our Internet! 06 August 2020 May First Movement Technology

At the 2020 Allied Media Conference, over 50 activists came together online to build a collective timeline documenting the relationship between the movement and technology, from the perspective of the past, present and the future.

Webcomic: The internet's footprint
Webcomic: The internet's footprint 06 August 2020 Nadège for GenderIT.org

We often hear that the internet is a cloud. But the internet has a big footprint. With this first release we start a reflective webcomic series around internet's infrastructure from a feminist technopolitical perspective.

African Internet Resilience: What about complementary access models?
African Internet Resilience: What about complementary access models? 22 July 2020 APCNews

How can complementary models promote access in underserved areas? Which policies and regulations should be implemented to enable them? The fifth webinar of the Internet Resilience in Africa series will take place on 30 July to address these issues.

Inside the Digital Society: Past, present, future. How comms have changed within my lifetime – and the lessons learned
Inside the Digital Society: Past, present, future. How comms have changed within my lifetime – and the lessons learned 20 July 2020 David Souter

1955’s a long time back in many ways, but time’s flown fast for ICTs. Britain then, like everywhere, was a very analogue society.

Inside the Digital Society: A different year for the Internet Governance Forum
Inside the Digital Society: A different year for the Internet Governance Forum 14 July 2020 David Souter

This week some thoughts on this year’s iteration of one of WSIS’ major outcomes, the Internet Governance Forum or IGF.

Second convening of the Feminist Internet Research Network
Second convening of the Feminist Internet Research Network 15 June 2020 APCNews

We are excited to announce that from 15 to 23 June, the network will gather for the second annual workshop online to exchange experiences and research findings with the eight research projects that are led by FIRN partners based in different regions of the global South.

Inside the Digital Society: Digital well-being
Inside the Digital Society: Digital well-being 01 June 2020 David Souter

In the digital society, how do we measure well-being?

Rising Voices: Tweets about digital rights and African languages
Rising Voices: Tweets about digital rights and African languages 27 May 2020 Rising Voices

This five-week social media campaign invited five language digital activists from across Africa to focus on a particular digital rights issue in order to explore some considerations and implications for the use of African languages online.

Inside the Digital Society: Another way to look at access and equality?
Inside the Digital Society: Another way to look at access and equality? 13 April 2020 David Souter

My last four blogs discussed the impact of the current virus crisis on the digital society. I’m moving for the next few weeks to other subjects, but it’s worth noting that the crisis will have an impact on every aspect of the digital society.

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