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Ten years of building a movement for Digital Rights in Africa: Impact of the African Declaration on Rights and Freedoms in Africa

Johannesburg; Windhoek: Association for Progressive Communications (APC);NMT Media Foundation (2024), 20 pp.

Emerging Issues in Digital Rights in Africa: A Discussion Paper for the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms (AfDec) Coalition

Johannesburg; Windhoek: Association for Progressive Communications (APC);NMT Media Foundation (2024), 19 pp.

Principles for community-centred connectivity initiatives

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Rhizomatica (2024), 6 pp.

Hybrid events guide 101

Association for Progressive Communications (APC), February 19 (2024)
"This guide is aimed at hosts who want to hold and facilitate hybrid convenings/events, and is based on APC’s experience and learning from the last two years. After the pandemic, new ways to allow people to participate in convenings have arisen, as a means of reducing travel and minimising contact ... more

Typology of community-centred connectivity initiatives

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Rhizomatica (2024), 30 pp.
"This assessment tool seeks to provide step-by-step advice and concrete recommendations for those wishing to develop a gender approach to cybersecurity policy. Building on APC’s previous work on a human rights approach to cybersecurity, online ge ... more

Community Network Regulation Around the World

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2023), 5 pp.
"Temporary internet disruptions and shutdowns pose serious challenges to the exercise of a wide range of rights and therefore cannot be justified under any pretext, whether these relate to preservation of national security, safeguarding the public order, or countering disinformation, among others. A ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2021-2022: Digital Futures for a Post-Pandemic World

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2022), 268 pp.
"The pandemic made inequality, discrimination, exclusion and structural inequity more palpable, and rather than stagnating in indignation, it reactivated a sense of rebellion and contestation. The strength and sharpness with which we connect social justice, gender justice, environmental justice, eco ... more

Financing Mechanisms for Locally Owned Internet Infrastructure

Connectivity Capital;Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Internet Society;Connect Humanity (2022), 134 pp.
"The digital divide is not a problem the market alone will solve. We need to do things differently. Globally there is a growing movement of community connectivity providers — including community networks, municipal networks, cooperatives, and social enterprises — connecting underserved communiti ... more
"This submission focuses on Brazil's fulfilment of human rights obligations in the digital context and seeks to strengthen recommendations focused on guaranteeing universal access to the internet in order to enable free expression and association; ... more
"In this submission, the Association of Progressive Communications (APC), EngageMedia and So ... more
"[This is] a series of short issue briefs for funders on potential priority areas for funding activities or initiatives that would bring the work of digital rights organisations and environmental ... more

Human Rights Online in India: Joint Stakeholder Report. Universal Periodic Review, 41st Session - India

Access Now;Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) (2022), 19 pp.
"This joint stakeholder report focuses on key issues relating to human rights online in India, including internet shutdowns, digital exclusion, freedom of speech and expression online, online harassment and hate speech, privacy, surveillance and data protection. The report draws on extensive and ong ... more

Feminist Internet Research Network: Meta-Research Project Report

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), iii, 58 pp.
"The FIRN meta-research aggregates and examines feminist research from the global South focused on questions around unequal access to online participation, the implications and impact of datafication, online gender-based violence, and gendered digital economies in the global South [...] While the re ... more

White Paper on Feminist Internet Research

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 72 pp.
"Feminist internet research considers how gender justice can be achieved in the ways we belong, work and make on the internet and shows that this is not possible without considering the economic and environmental dimensions of the internet as well as the intersectionality of discriminations and viol ... more

'Hated Speech' and the Costs of Freedom in India

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), iv, 35 pp.
"[…] This project looks at experiences and observations of what it means to speak truth to power and receive hate as it is manifested through varying degrees of violence, across a variety of instances. Drawing on the responses of 15 interviewees, this qualitative research report presents 3 section ... more

Cultivating a Feminist Community Network: Reflections of Practices in the Quilombo of Ribeirão Grande/Terra Seca

Feminist Internet Research Network;Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 25 pp.
"This article is an outcome of an actionresearch project that gathered community members, farmers, technologists, agroecologists and community network practitioners to make possible a community network in the quilombo of Ribeirão Grande/Terra Seca, located in Barra do Turvo city, São Paulo state, ... more

Community Radio Enabling Women’s Empowerment in Remote Communities of India

Bombay: Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Rhizomatica;Spoken Tutorial Project (2022), 49 pp.
"The objective of this study is twofold –firstly to understand how women have found self-expression through community radio as a frugal technology and how, in turn, it has helped them serve the community and empower other women in the community to find their voices. Secondly, this study examines h ... more