In May 2026, Meta announced slashing its workforce by 8,000, including employees from integrity teams, in favour of its AI ambitions. Later in June, reports emerged that the company is planning to ...

As AI governance discussions move forward, an important question remains: What guiding principles, indicators and accountability mechanisms are needed to make Ai governance commitments meaningful in ...

Today, a handful of US and Chinese transnational corporations dominate global AI systems. Driven by massive capital, semiconductor manufacturing dominance, and hyperscale cloud infrastructure, these ...

(DWeb). A web that is private, resilient, and beyond the control of a few central powers. Like forests, decentralized systems derive strength from what lies beneath the surface: dense networks of ...

This report by Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) with support from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) explores the growing threat of spyware and digital surveillance targeting women ...

Many digital divides still persist today, to the point that a third of the world’s population is still offline. Different statistics also show that the divide can be worse depending on the countries ...

It is on that same ground that they confront the consequences of climate change and the environmental impact of the economic activities that move beyond the limits of nature and life. How can ...

For the past decade, internet connectivity has been praised for its potential to close the gender gap in Africa. Among the many benefits of digitalisation, digital tools enable groups that are ...

APC member 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media launched the report “Connection Interrupted” in English and Arabic. It details the Israeli control over the Palestinian ICT ...

Even before the adoption of the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Principles (AfDec) in 2014, the information and communications sector on the continent was already experiencing rapid ...

Every day the term "revenge porn" appears in newspaper headlines around the world and its translations are entering people’s vocabularies everywhere from China to France. Despite its growing ...