🧐 There’s a misconception that privacy is just about hiding personal information, but privacy is actually so much more than that.
Privacy is foundational to who we are as human beings.
https://privacyinternational.org/learning-resources/privacy-matter
What is happenning with Signal today? Not possible to connect to it.
>>> Over the past two decades, the #WSISProcess has served as a valuable platform for dialogue, target setting and multistakeholder engagement. Yet the digital divide remains stubbornly entrenched. Connectivity gaps persist between regions and within countries.
At the heart of these challenges lies a common denominator: financing.
---> Read more in our new piece on financing #DigitalEquity at #WSIS20: A task force to turn commitments into action
https://www.apc.org/en/news/financing-digital-equity-wsis20-task-force-turn-commitments-action
Albanese’s recent report, “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide”, reveals how the Israeli occupation "has become the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and big tech – providing boundless supply and demand, little oversight and zero accountability – while investors and private and public institutions profit freely.”
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, express our grave concern over the unprecedented decision by the United States government to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
We refuse to accept a digital order dictated by corporate greed and state control. Instead, we demand a digital future that belongs to the people – one where digital infrastructures are not commodities, but the commons that individuals and communities nurture to determine their own technological destinies.
The Global Digital Justice Forum, a coalition of civil society organisations from the Global Majority, including APC, decries the tightening stranglehold of political and corporate authoritarianism on the internet. We refuse to accept a digital order dictated by corporate greed and state control. We must build a future where technology is harnessed to empower people and protect the planet.
"The Paris Summit’s failure may yet serve one useful purpose: as a wake-up call. It has shown, definitively, that the current approach to AI governance is broken. The question now is whether we have time to fix it."
www.transformernews.ai/p/paris-ai-s...
"There are no digital rights under the shadow of war and settler colonialism, as technology becomes both a weapon and a censor, targeting Palestinians while silencing their resistance." #PalestineDay
Hoy en @digidefenders lanzamos #BuildingResilience, un manual en el que venimos trabajando hace rato.
Ojalá sirva para que más personas puedan acompañar a colectivas a pensar en sus prácticas de protección digital y fortalecerlas.
¡Está en inglés y castellano (y pronto en francés)!
Only those who are far from power can recognise the strength of ephemerals.
Honouring the memory of 'the butterflies' today.
For the elimination of all violence against women.
Amanece, que no es poco. / Sunrise, which is no small feat.
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