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"Some say AI is good and will help people and the planet. Some say AI is inevitable." We need more questions than pleasant answers.
Don't miss the closing article of the series "Don't Ask AI, Ask A Peer" by APC, @globalvoices & GenderIT: https://www.apc.org/en/blog/need-generate-more-questions-pleasant-answers
The latest edition of our Community Networks Newsletter highlights the importance of ensuring community voices are heard and impact on policy shaping.
Find out more about the recent South Africa School of Digital Policy 2026 – Community Networks and the ongoing process of assignment of spectrum in Colombia, underscoring the need to include communities in policymaking.
Also featuring news, stories, resources, funding sources and the agenda.
Find the edition here 🔗 https://www.apc.org/en/news/community-networks-newsletter-raising-voices-community-centred-connectivity-initiatives-policy
"China cannot offer a direct answer to how to develop a human rights approach to AI. Yet, its open embrace of AI technology and its ambitions for dominance in the global AI market can serve as a case study for the burgeoning relationship between the private sector and the state, the machine and society," says Oiwan Lam in this article part of the series “Don't ask AI, ask a peer,” a collaboration among @globalvoices APC & GenderIT.
https://genderit.org/feminist-talk/chinese-lesson-human-rights-approach-ai
Image: Ibrahim Kizza.
We joined over 130 organisations condemning the Government of Zambia’s abrupt disruption of @rightscon
https://paradigmhq.org/press-statement-net-rights-coalition-others-condemn-disruption-of-rightscon/
India’s race to adopt AI sparks a deeper question: How can technology respect human rights? “Responsible AI” without accountability is merely an aspiration. Although the framework talks about a people-first approach, human rights must be the starting point of AI governance, not a consideration to be layered on afterwards.
📖 Read more on this article by @rezwan, which is part of the series "Don't Ask AI, Ask A Peer" - a collaboration between GenderIT, APC & Global Voices
🙌 Witness the energy and passion of the participants in the first-ever South Africa School of Digital Policy – Community Networks Edition (ZASDIP 2026/CN).
Watch the video here 👉 https://media.apc.org/w/xjcGkbirZS6ZF36gEchAZf
#PolicySchool #ZASDIP #Policyadvocacy
#CommunityNetworks #DigitalInclusion #SouthAfrica
We will be at @rightscon 2026, as it is an opportunity for the APC community to come together around key themes at the intersection of human rights and technology.
Check the list of sessions where APC staff, members & partners will be participating: https://www.apc.org/en/news/apc-rightscon-2026
"By grounding AI in the right to life, equality, speech, essentials and privacy, we ensure it serves as a mirror of our highest values, rather than a magnifier of our oldest biases."
This article by Rebecca Ryakitimbo, a feminist technologist and researcher, is part of the series "Don't Ask AI, Ask A Peer" - a collaboration between GenderIT.org, APC.org, and @globalvoices.
"The first step is to abandon the fallacy of technological and algorithmic neutrality and to question the underlying architecture of power embedded in these systems."
Continuing with the series "Don't Ask AI, Ask A Peer" - a collaboration between GenderIT, APC & Global Voices, we asked journalist and researcher Mariana Tamari: "What could be done to create and foster a human rights approach to AI?"
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