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🌱 What role can #CommunityNetworks play in advancing #ClimateJustice?
Join us for "The Catalytic Effect: Community-Centred Connectivity for Climate Justice," a Tech Together #webinar exploring how community-led connectivity can strengthen resilience, support environmental stewardship and contribute to more equitable futures.
đź”— Find out more and register: https://s.apc.org/TechTogetherWebinar-register
📅 17 June 2026 • ⏰ 14:00 UTC
📢 Deadline extended to 12 June!
How can community networks challenge extractive AI narratives and build sovereign digital futures?
We’re looking for reflections, case studies and visual stories from communities advancing digital sovereignty, environmental justice and community centred approaches to AI.
How can community networks challenge extractive AI narratives and build sovereign digital futures?
The call for contributions for our CCCI-AI Anthology is now launched, seeking reflections, raw case studies, and compelling visual stories from the frontlines of digital sovereignty.
Get the details on themes, deadlines and formats here 👉https://www.apc.org/en/news/call-contributions-ccci-ai-anthology-challenging-extractive-ai-through-community-centred
Submit your pitch by June 8.
What unique perspective from your community are you most excited to see featured in this anthology?
When communities lead their own connectivity and digital solutions, they go far beyond closing the access gap – building capacities, creating employment, strengthening culture, and protecting their territories.
The new edition of the Community Networks Newsletter brings together stories of this impact, together with gender focused initiatives, enabling policies in progress, publications, funding sources and events.
Find it here 👉 https://www.apc.org/en/news/community-networks-newsletter-when-communities-lead-connectivity-initiatives-learnings-and
REMINDER: The upcoming Tech Together webinar, taking place on May 27 at 14:00 UTC, will host the launch of “Community Interest Media” and feature a discussion with practitioners from the Global South (and friends), who will share the experiences they documented for the publication.
The webinar will explore how community-led media initiatives are shaping more inclusive and participatory communication ecosystems.
Register in the link 👉 https://apc-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/T8122q1bTbOMKfw__GdB7w#/ and be part of the discussion.
The challenge we face is about who controls digital infrastructure and services, whose interests it serves, and whether communities have meaningful power and agency over the tech they use.
Meet some of the organisations in the APC network who have built community-centred and rights-respecting alternatives rooted in social and environmental justice alongside collective care, sharing a vision of a digital future where infrastructure is seen as a commons.
https://www.apc.org/en/news/better-not-bigger-digital-services-alternatives-across-our-network
A new Tech Together webinar will launch the publication “Community Interest Media: Emerging concepts and practices from the Global Majority (and friends)” on 27 May at 14 UTC.
The webinar will explore different ways of doing media as a community in Indonesia, Kenya, and Mexico, as documented in the publication and discuss on new ways to curate content that is meaningful to communities.
Join in to be part of the conversation. You can register and learn more here 👉 https://www.apc.org/en/event/tech-together-webinar-community-interest-media-launch-and-discussion-practitioners-global
Many women who once believed technology was too difficult for them discovered they could learn digital tools – and use them to grow their income.
A Digital Micro-Enterprise Training developed in three communities in Nigeria provided a safe, encouraging space for women to ask questions, practice new skills, and share their business experiences.
Learn more in the latest Seeding change column, featuring stories of impact from our network.
"Transitioning to a communal internet infrastructure requires patience, not perfection"
Team CommUNITY interviewed APC to know more about our human-centered approach to communal infrastructure.
The 2026 call for nominations for the 14th African School on Internet Governance is now open!
The deadline is 31 May 2026 at 23:59 UTC.
This year’s edition will take place in the last quarter of 2026 immediately prior to the Africa Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which will take place in Accra, Ghana. The overall focus of AfriSIG 2026 will be on AI governance in the African context.
Call available here: https://afrisig.org/african-school-on-internet-governance-2026-call-for-nominations (also in French and Portuguese).
