Nigeria: Good developments for digital rights, but surveillance continues
Opinions and commentary
24 July 2016
As part of the work to promote awareness of African internet rights, this week Leila Nachawati of the Association for Progressive Communications interviewed renowned Nigerian internet rights defender Gbenga Sesan, …
West Africa Internet Governance Forum 2016
Event reports
21 June 2016
The West Africa Internet Governance Forum (WAIGF) is a project that aims to promote Internet Governance issues in West Africa through a multi-stakeholder process. WAIGF is run by a consortium led by the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA). Other members of the consortium include AfriNic, Panos West Africa…
African Internet Governance Forum
21 June 2016The African Internet Governance Forum aims to be a platform for an inclusive multilateral, multi-stakeholder and multilingual discussion on issues pertinent to the Internet in Africa in general and Internet Governance issues in particular. The 2016 African IGF will take place in South Africa, for more information click on here
Feminism online in West and Central Africa: Identities and digital colonisation
Statements/Press releases
16 June 2016
In West and Central Africa, feminist organising has often been fractured at a regional level. This is due in part to the language barrier – which is a direct result of colonisation – between mainly French-, English- and Portuguese-speaking countries, as well as the numerous local languages that are present in the sub-region. Except for Nigeria and Senegal, which have more than 50% [1] of their populations…
Gbenga Sesan, from Paradigm Initiative Nigeria: "We need to take the African Declaration of Internet Rights to where the people are"
Opinions and commentary
28 April 2016
As part of the work to promote visibility of African internet rights, this week we have interviewed renowned Nigerian internet rights defender Gbenga Sesan, …
The perks of having internet access as a student
Opinions and commentary
25 April 2016
Internet access and affordability is one of the principles of the Declaration (Principle 2). In this blog post, Yolanda Mlonzi, a South African International Relations and Media Studies student who works at the Association for Progressive Communications, provides a personal perspective on the issue. Why is Principle 2 a key…