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APC@apc.bsky.social |
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Association for Progressive Communications is a worldwide network supporting the use of internet and ICTs for social justice and sustainable development.
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Sara Baker
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This is cool and sooooo useful! A game for learning about internet shutdowns and ways to counteract them from the good folks at @apc.bsky.social
shutdowngame.apc.org
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On International Solidarity Day with the Palestinian People, we call for tech companies to respect Palestinian digital rights:
s.apc.org/R4JUyO
#PalestineDay #SolidaritywithPalestine #NoTechforApartheid
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Many of the internet’s ills are based on widespread corporate surveillance online. This pervasive system, ran by corporations and governments, stifles our speech and erodes our privacy. But together, we can dismantle it.
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The Association for Progressive Communications joins
@amnestyuk.bsky.social and 98 other civil society organisations in this open letter on EU and several European states’ concerning decision to suspend and review of funding to Palestinian and Israeli NGOs.
amnesty.eu/news/open-le...
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How are cybercrime laws used to silence and criminalise women and LGBTQIA+ people?
New report on #GenderandCybercrime by Derechos Digitales and APC 👇
www.apc.org/en/pubs/when...
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Nadia van der Linde
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Important message, also as follow up to the last CSW (IN Commission on the Status of Women) which focused on digital rights
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"There are 2.6 billion people still unconnected, This is one of the biggest challenges we have, the persistent digital inequality and exclusion."
(APC's Chat Garcia Ramilo at the Internet Governance Forum #IGF2023)
Watch the whole session here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=31q5...
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To have the internet we want, we need a strengthened Internet Governance Forum.
Check out the newly launched campaign #TheIGFWeWant and help us promote and strengthen this key space.
theigfwewant.net #IGF2023
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Combining drones, license plate readers, face recognition, and artificial intelligence, the State of Chihuahua's Plataforma Centinela (Sentinel Platform) is a massive new surveillance system unlike anything we've seen along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Regulating the use of digital technology by public administration is key to protect and strengthen human rights
This contribution to the World Public Sector Report 2023, published by UNDESA, builds on analytical research led by APC:
apc.org/en/node/38957/
#HumanRightsOnline
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Jordan, UAE, Tunisia, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia all have surveillance and censorship laws targeting the LGTBQ+ people in violation of internationally recognized human rights. The UN Cybercrime Treaty could help them amplify & cooperate on that persecution.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Shout it from the rooftops: math cannot predict crime. But it can further criminalize neighborhoods already disproportionately over-represented in police data due to constant surveillance.
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You can apply before 2 November! #FeministInternet #CallforProposals
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Lovely pictures! :)
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Nadia van der Linde
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It's a wrap!
We just finished a full week of intense sharing, learning, planning & coconspiring for a feminist future in which there are no structurally silenced people. And of course we danced 💃!
#OVOF #OurVoicesOurFutures
@apc.bsky.social @genderplatform.bsky.social
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Have you heard of the Next Generation Internet Zero project?
#NGIZero supports strategic technology research and development, including the development of free/libre/open source software and hardware, and the establishment of open standards and open data.
www.apc.org/en/project/n...
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Do you love thy neighbour as you love thyself? Uganda’s homophobic law seeds further hatred in a precarious rape culture.
New on apc.org, by Tusiime Tutu:
apc.org/en/node/38933/
#Uganda #Homophobia
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Feminist Internet Research Network: Call for research proposals
Apply before 2 November www.apc.org/en/news/femi...
#FeministInternet #CallforProposals
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix podcast
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A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply
fortune.com/2023/09/09/a...
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Steve Song
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My Open Data map of Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) and other cloud services around the world. Ever wonder how your YouTube video loads so quickly? This is how. opentelecomdata.org/cdns/
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Steve Song
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Congo: spurred on by the arrival of the 2Africa cable, the government has begun construction work on a 2nd national fibre optic backbone www.wearetech.africa/fr/fils/actu... (en français) #AfTerFibre
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Steve Song
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MTN Nigeria selects ATC to provide tower services itweb.africa/content/G98Y...
Because they don't provide actual communication services, tower companies often operate outside of the telecom regulatory ecosystem. This is increasingly problematic as more and more MNOs outsource.
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Come work with us!
APC is looking for a project administrator for the Feminist Internet Research Network.
www.apc.org/en/news/come...
#FeministInternet #Jobs #TechJobs
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In East Africa, lack of connectivity has a big impact on education, especially among the most vulnerable.
Kenya-based organisation Arid Lands Information Network addresses this by providing teachers and schools with open educational resources.
New on #SeedingChange:
www.apc.org/en/blog/seed...
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