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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.
It is an honour to have been interviewed on behalf of the DrFed team for @apc.org (Association for Progressive Communications)'s Building a Free Internet of the Future series.
DrFed on reducing complexity and enabling more people to shape the Fediverse
DrFed is a web-based platform for developing and debugging implementations of ActivityPub – an open standard and protocol for decentralised networking. A team of four people from East Asia is developi...
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Tired of pre-programmed responses generated by opaque algorithms designed to please you and hold your attention? @apc.org #AskAPeer by GenderIT.org & @globalvoices.org centers human creativity and connection in the age of AI ⬇️ globalvoices.org/special/dont... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Human
Long before the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), open source communities were already building tools to improve software transparency, track vulnerabilities, and strengthen software supply chains. Linux Magazine's latest NGI0 article explores how public investment made this possible.
The Answer Was Already on the Shelf » Linux Magazine
How public money built defenses for open source software (way) before the law required them.
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🌍 Across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, APC members and partners are advancing digital justice through locally rooted action. 🧵⬇️ Discover the latest edition of Change in Motion, our quarterly digest showcasing stories from across the APC network. 📖 www.apc.org/en/news/chan...
How do Black Brazilian women carve out their own spaces online amid racism, sexism & misogynoir? This research by Minas Programam, part of the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN), explores strategies of resistance, connection & possibility. Unroll the thread. 🎨 Illustration: Clarice Wenzel
Community-centred connectivity starts with communities. Developed by ISEA, APC & Rhizomatica, this new national strategy outlines a roadmap for strengthening community-centred connectivity initiatives across the #Philippines.
National strategy for meaningful community-centered connectivity in the Philippines
This document combines a baseline synthesis report and the results of a national validation workshop to create a national roadmap for strengthening community-centered connectivity initiatives in the c...
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We put out a call for African feminist and women's rights organisations to join a #digitalsafety audit and training initiative. We expected interest. We didn't expect this. Over 125 applications. 20 countries. We could only pick 15. Read the full report 👉🏾 bit.ly/TheWaitlistA...
APC member Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in) has issued a statement on reports that social media posts related to the Cockroach Janta Party protests have had their visibility reduced online, calling for transparent and rights-respecting platform governance.
Software Freedom Law Center, India
Defending Digital Freedoms Since 2010 Promoting Open Knowledge, Free Speech, Online Privacy, Innovation & Equality, Collaboration. Running Digital Defenders Network (“DDN”), community of lawyers and t...
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Meta's reported shift towards AI powered moderation has significant implications for communities across #SouthAsia. Our latest #APCTalk by Usman Shahid explores why platform integrity depends on human expertise, cultural understanding and local knowledge.
Meta’s AI ambitions and platform integrity in South Asia
When tech corporations announce layoffs, the accompanying linguistic framing is almost always sanitised: restructuring, optimisation, strategic reallocation, etc. But what disappears beneath these eup...
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#Palestine 🇵🇸 @7amleh.bsky.social New study, “Algorithms of Violence,” examines how organised crime networks use TikTok to spread violent content, promote criminal identities, and recruit youth in Palestinian society in Israel. Read here
Hamleh - New 7amleh Study Examines the Role of TikTok’s Algorithms in Reproducing Organized Crime Culture within Palestinian Society in Israel
July 20, 2026, 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has launched a new study titled "Algorithms of Violence: Analysis of Behaviors, Representations, and Implications of Organized...
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Community-led connectivity starts with local knowledge. Our new video follows the Blended Training for ICT Network Managers in Indigenous and Rural Communities, from online learning to bootcamps in Kenya and Mexico, where participants turned knowledge into action. 🎥 media.apc.org/w/vp79KAoprm...
New research! With the help of @privacyinternational.org, we’ve published a groundbreaking research paper on how the SWANA region functions as a site of production, a consumption market, and a live testing ground of militarized tech. Read more: smex.org/new-report-o...
New report on the militarization of tech in the SWANA: Produced, tested, deployed - SMEX
Human testing. Those two words evoke mental images of inhumane experiments and feelings of disquiet, as they should. Yet human testing of militarized technology is happening in the Southwest Asia/Nort...
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In exactly 30 days, Zanzibar becomes the place where Africa's builders, thinkers, creatives, and community leaders share the same room to show the world what building with data actually looks like. Get the full picture at datafest.africa #JengaNaData #DataTamashaAfrica26
Public investment in open source is helping shape Europe's digital autonomy. The first article in a five-part series explores how open chip design and open Electronic Design Automation (EDA) are making semiconductor innovation more accessible & reducing dependence on proprietary tools. ⬇️ Read more
Changing the Chip Industry: How Public Investme... » Linux Magazine
The first in a five-part series on how public funding of open source contributes to digital autonomy.
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Meet APC's internet governance lead, Valeria Betancourt. Recognised in the Tech Diplomacy Global 50, Valeria is helping shape responsible technology policy worldwide. This week, she's also serving as a High-Level Track Facilitator at #WSIS2026.
📍Day 1 at #WSIS2026 APC joins conversations on the future of internet governance, the #WSISPlus20 review, gender equality in AI governance, digital inclusion, and more. 🔗 www.apc.org/en/news/apc-... See where our staff, members and partners are speaking today. 👇
📣 APC's Global Programme Director Raman Jit Singh Chima will speak at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance's closing high-level plenary. 🗓️ 7 July • 16:30–18:00 (UTC+2) Watch live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1e...
AI governance shouldn't reinforce existing global inequalities. @apc.org has joined civil society organisations from across the Global South in endorsing a joint statement calling for AI governance that centres human rights, global equity and planetary justice. ⬇️ Read the joint statement
Joint statement issued by the Global Digital Justice Forum and the Global South Alliance at the Global Dialogue on AI Governance
The Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) and the Global South Alliance (GSA) call on the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance to deliver on a Global South-led AI paradigm, anchored in a vision of rights...
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Community interest media starts with a simple question: What media serves a community's own agenda? Rather than fitting communities into existing media models, it begins with their own priorities, knowledge and ways of communicating. 🧵 Unroll the thread.
Responsible AI starts with communities, not just technology. APC member DEF India shows how AI infrastructure is reshaping land, water and livelihoods in Telangana, #India, highlighting why community voices are essential to building more just #DigitalFutures. 📃 Read the full story ↓
Seeding change: Unpacking AI’s silent footprint on land, water and power in India
In this decade, we witness an unprecedented expansion of digital infrastructures, including artificial intelligence. However, scholars and practitioners around the globe are consistently raising conce...
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Communities on the frontlines of climate change are also shaping connectivity solutions that strengthen environmental resilience. 🌍 Explore this month's Community Networks Newsletter featuring stories, resources and opportunities from across the global movement. 👇 Read the newsletter.
Community networks newsletter: Communities shaping connectivity and appropriate technologies for environmental justice
Climate change is a reality. Floods, storms and droughts are affecting communities around the world, with rural and marginalised populations on the frontlines of these impacts. Communities struggling ...
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What happens when communities own and shape digital infrastructure? LocNet Kenya micrograntees are using community-centred connectivity to support climate resilience, environmental monitoring & local decision-making, showing how connectivity can advance climate justice. www.apc.org/en/blog/how-...
How Kenyan communities are shaping connectivity for environmental resilience
With current technological shifts and a deepening climate crisis, the concept of community-centred connectivity is a vital form of grassroots community ownership of tech. At its core, a community-cent...
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As DRAPAC26 concludes, our latest Seeding Change story by @apc.org and @engagemedia.org reflects on lessons from DRAPAC25 and the importance of communities of practice in strengthening digital rights movements across Asia-Pacific. 📖 Read the story: www.apc.org/en/blog/seed...
APC joins more than 100 organisations, researchers, technologists and rights advocates in calling for an end to AI-accelerated warfare. The joint statement urges tech companies and states to halt the use of AI systems in military kill chains and uphold #HumanRights & #InternationalHumanitarianLaw.
Joint statement: AI-accelerated warfare must stop
AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed and scale of military assaults in a manner that creates significant new risks for accountability in conflict and risks facilita...
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#CommunityNetworks are not only about connectivity. They are about strengthening community resilience, supporting environmental stewardship and building more equitable futures. Join us tomorrow for a webinar in exploring how community networks can advance #ClimateJustice 📅 17 June 2026 | 14:00 UTC
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Catalytic Effect: Community-Centred Connectivity for Climate Justice. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting...
LocNet recently awarded 5 micro-grants to CCCIs in Kenya, from AI-powered flood prediction in Mavoko to women-led coastal monitoring in Kwale and Kilifi, these projects demonstrate how community-cente...
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🌐 What does a free internet look like? Our new publication, "Building a Free Internet of the Future", brings together stories from people and communities creating technologies grounded in accessibility, privacy, inclusion and human rights. 📖 www.apc.org/en/pubs/buil... 🧵⬇️ Roll the thread
📢 Deadline extended to 12 June! How can #communitynetworks challenge extractive AI narratives and build sovereign digital futures? We're looking for reflections, case studies and visual stories from communities advancing #digitalsovereignty and community-centred AI.
Call for contributions for the CCCI-AI anthology: Challenging extractive AI through community-centred connectivity
As AI policy is being written in real time, the voices of those building community-centred infrastructure are often missing. This anthology is our space to ensure that our collective weaving of digita...
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APC and our network are at #DRAPAC26! Across the programme, you'll find APC staff, members and partners sharing, learning and collaborating on digital rights issues across the region. If you're attending, come say hi 👋 www.apc.org/en/news/apc-...
APC at DRAPAC 2026
The Digital Rights Asia-Pacific Assembly (DRAPAC) is gearing up for its 2026 edition, this year taking place in Manila, Philippines, from 8 to 10 June.
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