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Maja Romano

AfriSIG 2022: Real-life multistakeholder collaboration is difficult but essential for issues like cybersecurity

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Y. Z. Ya’u

Celebrating 15 years of GISWatch: "The making of a committed, exciting and influential voice in the information society wildnerness"

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Susan Mwape

Lungu law looms dangerously over Zambian digital rights

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David Souter

Inside the Digital Society: Africa’s "communications revolution"

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Débora Prado

Community connectivity providers can be the missing piece to bridge the digital divide

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Fungai Machirori

Tackling online hate speech in Africa and beyond: “We can't trust Big Tech to abide by its own rules”

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APCNews

Local Access: How communities are weaving connectivity to defend the environment and their rights

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Frederico Links

New surveillance regulations lurk threateningly in Namibia

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Tiffany Kagure Mugo for GenderIT.org

Too much freaky sex: Online platforms as ways to talk about sex positivity

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Jimmy Kainja

Arrests mar Malawi’s digital rights landscape

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Débora Prado

Seeding change: Communities mobilise open data to challenge oil industry pollution in Nigeria

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APCNews

APC & CIPESA session at FIFAfrica22 will focus on human rights and safety concerns in Ethiopia in the context of the 2022 global IGF

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JulietGrace Luwedde and Ibrahim Waiswa Batambuze

Big or little data in Africa: Why collaboration matters now more than ever

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APCNews

Community Networks Schools and Mamaila Community Network win award for participatory design of information and communications technologies

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APCNews

Local Access: Can community networks help people to harness the power of digital tools?

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Thapelo Ndlovu

Botswana civil society organisations rebuff criminal procedures bill