2020 Publications
Briefing papers
Evaluation and learning reports
Policy explainers
Position papers
Research
- 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media. "Access Denied": New research by 7amleh Center about Palestinian access to e-commerce. 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media.
- Ritu Srivastava, Saurabh Srivastva and Kriti Singh. CNX 2019 Report: Community Networks and the Internet of People. Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF).
- Deborah Brown and Allison Pytlak. Why Gender Matters in International Cyber Security. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Association for Progressive Communications.
- Gustaff H. Iskandar. Connecting the Unconnected. Common Room Networks Foundation (Common Room), Bandung.
- APC. Community-led Connectivity: Assessing the potential of community network models in the context of forced displacement in East Africa. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Innovation Service.
- Anoushka Jha and Osama Manzar. DEF: Chronology of rumours and misinformation during COVID-19. Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF).
- Amanda Manyame. Data protection in the age of technology-based disease surveillance. APC.
- Charley Lewis. Digital divisions: COVID-19 policy and practice and the digital divide in Africa. APC.
- David Makwerere. "The forgotten constituency": Making a case for digital rights for prisoners in Zimbabwe during and beyond COVID-19. APC.
- Rumbidzai Matamba and Chenai Chair. Can the social contract theory justify data rights violations? A review of South Africa's contact tracing regulations. APC.
- Tomiwa Ilori. Data protection in Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic: Old problems, new challenges and multistakeholder solutions. APC.
- Tina Power. The gender digital divide and COVID-19: Towards feminist internet regulations in southern Africa. APC.
- Peace Oliver Amuge and Sandra Aceng. Women face internet access challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. APC.
- Sodfa Daaji and Rim Menia. The shrinking of the digital space during the COVID-19 pandemic: Movement building and internet governance in North Africa. APC.
- Wala Mohammed. COVID-19 exposes the damage of the ex-regime’s empowerment policy on ICTs and the impact of US sanctions against Sudan. APC.
- Nashilongo Gervasius. Compulsory e-learning in Namibia’s public schools: A commendable idea marred by the digital divide? APC.
- Donald Flywell Malanga. Tackling gender-based cyber violence against women and girls in Malawi amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. APC.
- Francis Monyango. Mask or muzzle: The impact of COVID-19 measures on digital rights in Kenya. APC.
- Amuku Isaac. Reflections on COVID-19 policy responses in Uganda and the relevance of the African declaration on internet rights and freedoms for promoting women’s rights online. APC.
- Josephine Miliza. A provisional analysis of the impact of telecommunications policy and regulatory frameworks in Africa and COVID-19: A community networks perspective. APC.
- Kenneth Matimaire. Digital-shy Zimbabwe’s schools feel the brunt of COVID-19. APC.
- Neema Iyer, Bonnita Nyamwire and Sandra Nabulega. Alternate realities, alternate internets: African feminist research for a feminist internet. Pollicy.
- 7amleh-The Arab Center for Social Media Advancement. 72% of Palestinians have been exposed to misleading news - 7amleh’s new research “Fake News in Palestine”. 7amleh-The Arab Center for Social Media Advancement.
- CIPESA. How telecom operators in Africa are failing persons with disabilities. CIPESA.
- Foundation for Media Alternatives, APC and the Cyrilla Collaborative. Unshackling Expression: The Philippines Report. Foundation for Media Alternatives, APC and the Cyrilla Collaborative.
- Aayush Rathi, Arindrajit Basu and Anoushka Soni. Dialling in the Law: A comparative assessment of jurisprudence on internet shutdowns. APC.
- Laxmi Murthy. The Contagion of Hate in India. APC.
- WOUGNET. Examining women’s access to digital platforms: A case of mobile broadband connections in Uganda - Policy brief. WOUGNET.
- APC. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: A guide to circular economies of digital devices (A preview). APC.
- Alghiffari Aqsa. Unshackling Expression: A study on online freedom of expression in Indonesia. APC.
- Body and Data. Unshackling Expression: A study on criminalisation of freedom of expression online in Nepal. APC.
- African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition. The struggle for the realisation of the right to freedom of expression in Southern Africa. African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition.
- Centre for Innovation, Policy and Governance. How Do Indonesian Media Portray the 2019 Presidential Debate?. Centre for Innovation, Policy and Governance.
- Byoung-il Oh, Yeokyung Chang and SeonHwa Jeong. COVID-19 and the Right to Privacy: An analysis of South Korean experiences. Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet and Institute for Digital Rights.
- Divya Srinivasan and Gayatri Khandhadai. Jurisprudence shaping digital rights in South Asia. APC.
- APC. Putting cybersecurity on the rights track. APC.
- Various. Global Information Society Watch 2020 - Technology, the environment and a sustainable world: Responses from the global South. APC.
Statements and submissions
- APC. APC condemns the crackdown on peaceful protesters in India, including the harassment of APC staff member.
- Various. An open letter to Google.
- APC. A step closer to realising internet freedoms in India: Supreme Court rules indefinite internet shutdowns are unconstitutional.
- APC. APC's reflections on the 2019 IGF and suggestions for 2020.
- APC. APC submission to the ITU Council Working Group-Internet Open Consultation on “International Internet-related Public Policy Issues on Harnessing New and Emerging Telecommunications/ICTs for Sustainable Development”.
- Various. Joint statement calls for allocation of sufficient resources for UN’s principal human rights body.
- APC and Derechos Digitales. Report on use of ICTs for enabling economic, social and cultural rights in Chile.
- Various. Open letter to Brazilian authorities on the charges against journalist Glenn Greenwald.
- Zenzeleni Networks and APC. Comments in respect of the Provisioning of Mobile Broadband Wireless Open Access Services for Urban and Rural Areas Using the Complementary Bands, IMT700, IMT800, IMT2300, IMT2600 and IMT3500.
- APC and others. APC statement at the UN Open-ended Working Group on International Cybersecurity.
- Various. #KeepIton: Joint letter on keeping the internet open and secure during the elections in Togo.
- Various. Joint open letter to the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism.
- APC. APC submission on the Revised Draft General Comment No. 37 on Article 21 (right of peaceful assembly) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
- Various. Observing the evaluation and preparatory trial hearing of the Ola Bini case.
- Various. Joint statement: HRC43 – Support consensus renewal of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders.
- APC. HRC43: APC statement on privacy and gender.
- APC. HCR43: APC statement on the escalating violence in India.
- APC. APC contribution to the Secretary-General’s Roadmap on the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation and Roundtable 5A/5B on Digital Cooperation Architecture.
- APC. HRC43: APC statement at the stakeholder meeting with the Human Rights Committee on the Revised Draft General Comment No. 37 on Article 21 of the ICCPR.
- APC. HRC43: APC statement on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
- APC and Derechos Digitales. Ecuador: Surveillance technologies implemented to confront COVID-19 must not endanger human rights.
- APC. APC submission to the UN Human Rights Council 44th session report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
- Various. Joint civil society statement: States' use of digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights.
- Various. Joint civil society statement on Myanmar government's orders to block over 200 websites.
- Various. Civil society from Latin America and the Caribbean demands respect for human rights when governments deploy digital technologies to fight COVID-19.
- Various. NGO and expert statement to the OECD Secretary General on COVID-19, privacy and fundamental rights.
- Kenya ICT Action Network. KICTANet submission on technology-related solutions to COVID-19.
- Various. Civil society comments on Kenya's "Draft Dynamic Spectrum Access Framework for Authorisation of the Use of TV White Spaces".
- Various. Joint civil society open letter to the UN on public-private partnerships.
- Various. Open letter on COVID-19 content moderation research.
- Various. #KeepItOn: Open letter to the government of India on lifting internet restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir during COVID-19 pandemic.
- Forum for Freedom of Expression. Forum for Freedom of Expression, Bangladesh audit of attacks on the media during the 30 days of lockdown.
- Kenya ICT Action Network. KICTANet proposals to the Kenyan judiciary on the use of video conferencing in judicial proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Various. #FreeAlaa: Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah on hunger strike protesting his continued illegal detention.
- APC and and International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Open letter to the EU Ambassador to South Africa on copyright laws.
- APC and International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Open letter to President Ramaphosa on South African copyright laws.
- Various. Joint letter to United States Congress: Save internet freedom, support the Open Technology Fund.
- Various. Brazilian disinformation bill threatens freedom of expression and privacy online.
- APC. APC input to the public consultation on the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation.
- APC. Upholding human rights online in the context of COVID-19: APC statement at the 44th session of the Human Rights Council.
- APC. COVID-19 and the increase in domestic violence against women: APC submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences.
- Various. Joint submission to the Ethiopian Communications Authority on draft telecommunications licensing regulations.
- Colnodo. Comments on the draft 2020-2024 spectrum policy in Colombia.
- Various. Open letter to request strong user privacy protections in the Philippines’ COVID-19 contact tracing efforts.
- Various. Joint statement for HRC44 virtual meeting of the Human Rights Council president with NGOs.
- Various. Joint civil society statement: Structural intervention is required to mitigate the racially discriminatory impacts of emerging digital technologies including AI.
- Various. HRC44: Joint NGO full written end-of-session statement.
- Various. #HoldTheLine Coalition calls for criminal tax charge to be dropped as Maria Ressa returns to court.
- Various. Mexican Congress’ implementation of USMCA IP provisions threatens democracy and digital rights.
- Sexual Rights Initiative, Center for Reproductive Rights, Choice for Youth and Sexuality, Association of Women’s Rights in Development and APC. Joint statement welcomes the gains in advancing the rights of women and girls at the 44th session of the Human Rights Council.
- Various. Open letter from human rights NGO coalition to the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism.
- Various. Civil society groups welcome Irene Khan as the new Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression.
- Various. Open letter: Brazilian Federal Supreme Court Justices are called upon to correct serious injustice and to protect press freedom and the rights to information and protest in the emblematic case of Alex da Silveira.
- Various. Collective statement to urge the government of Jammu and Kashmir to restore high speed internet.
- APC. Lebanon: APC calls for internet access restrictions to be lifted and for human rights online and offline be protected.
- Various. Organisations of the Americas demand respect for the autonomy of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
- APC. Open letter from APC: Facebook’s complicity in enabling hate speech in India must end.
- APC. Human rights online at the Human Rights Council 45th Session.
- Various. Joint civil society feedback on the Open-ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security revised non-paper norms proposals.
- Various. HRC45: Civil society presents key takeaways from Human Rights Council.
- Various. Joint civil society letter to the UN treaty bodies and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- Various. Joint submission on proposed amendments to the South African Domestic Violence Act.
- Various. Letter of intent for engagement with the UN Secretary General's digital cooperation efforts.
- APC. APC priorities for the 2020 Internet Governance Forum.
- Various. Comments from civil society organisations and academia to the Ethiopian Communications Authority on the Universal Access and Service Framework and Universal Access Fund Regulation.
- APC. APC's reflection on the Options for the Future of Global Digital Cooperation on Recommendation 5A/B of the UN High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation.
- Various. Joint letter calling for reforms to EU funding to ensure the right to privacy.
- Various. Consumer and digital rights groups call on the international joint initiative on e-commerce to safeguard data protection and privacy.
- Various. Joint letter in solidarity with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.
- Various. Joint civil society statement on the outcomes of the UN General Assembly Third Committee 75th session.
- Various. "We will observe the evaluation and preparatory trial hearing of the Ola Bini case".
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