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Parliamentary Track | #AfIGF2025 🗓️ 29 May ⏰ 08:00 - 16:00 SAST // 09:00 - 17:00 EAT 📍Hybrid Today, Mpho Moyo and Liz Orembo assist with Parliamentary preparations for regional & international digital governance forums. Register 🔗bit.ly/3Z3vJot

Orembo emphasises the importance of using data to measure digital inequality. Calling for disaggregated data, she says, “Governments that use e-services have access to a huge amount of data. We should use this data to determine how women access government services”. #inclusion

#AFIGF2025 Day 2 | Building Truly Inclusive AI Governance Practices Moderated by RIA's Mpho Moyo, the session explores strategies for African policymakers & AI stakeholders to address systemic inequalities in AI development. Register: bit.ly/43t09Sm

These strategies are informed by the GPAI Report and Policy Guide, 'Towards Substantive Equality in Artificial Intelligence: Transformative AI Policy for Gender Equality and Diversity'. Read the report: bit.ly/3F9eonp

The increasing concentration of digital technologies is exacerbating socio-economic disparities, both domestically and globally. In this panel, experts explored how the #G20 can foster equitable and meaningful #digitalinclusion within a concentrated digital landscape. #T20SA

Alison Gillwald says, "From a global governance point of view, how are we managing the intensifying global processes of digitalisation and datafication?” She goes on to discuss the T20's recommendations, and the need to prevent technology's exacerbation of existing inequalities.

Alison Gillwald Listen to the full panel discussion here ⏺️ bit.ly/4eaMFQ5 See more discussions with Alison Gillwald on RIA's YouTube Channel here▶️ bit.ly/4eaPuRb

Local government’s punitive municipal bylaws put up high barriers for informal traders Haroon Bhorat Tim Köhler businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/col…

#IGF2025 | 'Data for Impact: Equitable & Sustainable DPI Data Governance' discusses existing data governance principles and frameworks, including recommendations from the G20 and T20 processes, the African Union Commission Data Policy Framework, and UN Universal DPI safeguards.

It explores best practices and innovative case studies operationalising DPI data governance, & concretely showcase approaches in the Global North & Global South to bring diverse perspectives to balancing data safeguarding, data rights protection & equitable data access for all.

#IGF20205 | New Technologies and the Impact of Human Rights ⚖️ Alison Gillwald moderates today's IGF plenary session alongside Pablo Hinojosa , facilitating a discussion on the institutional values and choices that shape governance approaches in the face of rapid digitalisation.

Using practical examples of timely policy responses, the panel will explore how human rights frameworks can effectively guide the development, deployment, and governance of technologies like AI by embracing precautionary and anticipatory approaches rooted in human rights.

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Africa’s development banks are being undermined: the continent will pay the price theconversation.com/africas-develo… via The Conversation Africa T20 South Africa Research ICT Africa

BLOG | Grok AI: A Conduit for Misinformation in the Digital Age 🛑 RIA researchers unpack Grok's influence on the accelerated spread of misinformation on social media platforms. Read the blog here 🖇️ bit.ly/3Ih5ODX

WSIS pioneered the multistakeholder, people-centered approach to digital transformation. Now it’s time for the next chapter. Join us at the #WSIS+20 High-Level Event to reflect on two decades of progress and shape a vision for our shared digital future itu.int/net4/wsis/foru…

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South Africa pioneered drone laws a decade ago - now it must catch up techcentral.co.za/south-africa-p… Research ICT Africa

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