Privacy and Data Protection in Africa Conference
Event reports
14 December 2020
The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (AfDec Coalition) in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights (CHR), University of Pretoria: Expression, Information, and Digital Rights Unit hosted a virtual conference on the challenges and prospects of privacy and data protection in Africa. The collaboration between CHR and the AfDec Coalition sought to establish and strengthen a human…
Building cyberspace back better: Introducing the #RestoreDataRights movement
Event reports
24 November 2020
By Tom Orrell, Managing Director, DataReady Limited
2020 has been an incredibly challenging year for far too many people. News of death, disease, quarantine, lockdown, financial hardship, heightened anxiety and distress dominate headlines around the world. One of the things that distinguishes the COVID-19 pandemic from crises that have come before it is that our collective grief, loss, anxiety…
How MIL enables citizens to claim their digital rights
Event reports
03 November 2020
This article was commissioned and first published by DW Akademie, as part of the Media and Information Literacy week commemorations
Media and Information Literacy is essential for citizens to claim their human rights, especially in the digital sphere. Zimbabwean digital rights activist Koliwe Majama…
African Civic Tech and COVID-19: Five Emerging Trends
Publications
29 October 2020
By Melissa Zisengwe for CIPESA
This article was republished from CIPESA.
Africa has a growing civic tech community that focuses on issues such as accountability and transparency, data journalism, citizen participation, and public services monitoring. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, various …
Invitation: Privacy and data protection in Africa: Challenges and prospects
Statements/Press releases
08 October 2020
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, cordially invites you to a conference on privacy and data protection in Africa from 12 to 15 October 2020. The conference is organised by the Expression, Information and Digital Rights Unit in collaboration with the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (…
AfDec at FIFAfrica20
Event reports
06 October 2020
The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (AfDec) Coordinator, Koliwe Majama, was a panelist at the Africa Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA) rollout event at the 7th edition of the annual Forum on Internet Freedom Africa (FIFAfrica20). The panel had a discussion on digital rights: their importance as they constitute human rights; the need for collaboration and partnership between state and…