7amleh expresses its strong condemnation of the Israeli government’s unanimous decision to ban Al Jazeera news channel, the closure of its local offices, confiscation of equipment & blocking access to its platforms through Internet service providers. 7amleh.org/2024/05/07/sta…

7amleh issued a position paper regarding the digital discrimination practiced by PayPal, The paper criticizes PayPal's discriminatory policies against Palestinians & preventing them from using its services. 🔗Read paper: 7amleh.org/2024/05/08/pos…

South Africa will be president of the G20 in 2025: two much-needed reforms it should drive theconversation.com/south-africa-w… via The Conversation Africa University of Pretoria Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship CentreForHumanRights South African Institute of International Affairs Boston University Global Development Policy Center Afronomicslaw The Presidency 🇿🇦 AFRODAD Finance for Development Lab T20 South Africa South Centre Rethinking Economics For Africa - Wits

📢Join Jillian C. York, one of the speakers in the session: “AI in Times of War: Gaza, Automated Warfare, Surveillance, and the Battle of Narratives” Reserve your seat now: pdaf.net #PDAF2024

1st Meeting of Global Points of Contact Directory for ICT security, #CyberOEWG: most 91 Member States who've nominated PoCs have nominated both technical & diplomatic contacts. Some nominated multiple people for those categories. A few MS have nominated for only 1 contact type.

#Right2Development will be in focus in Geneva next week! Join us in Room XXIV for two side events that I am co-organising with UN Human Rights: 13 May - Nexus between R2D and ESCRs: indico.un.org/event/1011558/ 14 May - Role of business in realising the R2D: indico.un.org/event/1011559/

#CyberOEWG Global Roundtable on ICT security capacity-building, Doreen Bogdan-Martin: this year, cybercrime is projected to cost the global economy an astronomical USD 9.4 trillion. By next year, almost 50% of all organizations are predicted to be impacted in some way by cyber attacks.

"It's the worst thing I've seen in my lifetime." British broadcaster & football legend @garylineker talks Gaza with me on #MehdiUnfiltered and reveals: "I cry on a regular basis when I see certain images on social media." Full show: zeteo.com/p/it-haunts-an…

Citizens and civil society organisation coming together in a protest campaign — #GrowASpineOrResign — by sending postcards to the ECI, amid the surge in the number of hate speech complaints against #BJP leaders, at post box on Palace Road, in Bengaluru📸: K MURALI KUMAR

So here is the scaffolding that is “preventing “ the Joburg Public library from being opened. It’s the bit in the shade… so seems little reason why people can’t use library. Open it now Panyaza Lesufi City of Joburg

#WSIS+20 Forum HLE anriette: We have to invest in digital equality within countries & between countries. We also have to acknowledge failure. We haven't succeeded to the extent we wanted when WSIS started in 2003. And we have to confront new challenges, such as climate change.

🗓️ | From changes to the new digital rights authority in Pakistan to Meta engineer suing the company over suppression of Palestinian posts in the US, here's everything we covered at Digital Rights Monitor (DRM) this week. Read our weekly news roundup - digitalrightsmonitor.pk/drm-week-in-re…

It took the ICANN board 18 months to select a new CEO because: they wanted to ensure gender diversity, ensure the new CEO had a technical, legal and civil society background, did not mirror the profile and portfolios of the previous CEOs. Oh wait. Nevermind. #ICANN80

TEN YEARS LATER AND ALAA IS STILL IN PRISON! And we are still screaming, chanting, demanding, writing, pleading, and praying #FreeAlaa facebook.com/share/p/tz36d9…

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Congratulations to the East Africa #InternetGovernance Forum for the successful delivery of engaging debates & discussion. Pleased to be part of the community that partnered with the #EAIGF2024 to achieve this milestone on the Internet Governance calendar! #InternetFreedomAfrica

#FreeAlaa now! Alaa should have been released yesterday. Alaa should never have been locked up! Yet Egypt has extended his sentence, deepening his despair. “I don’t know how my spirit will accept that we are entering a new form of illegal incarceration.” dropsitenews.com/p/egypt-refusi…

After #GDC discussions, the IGF's Policy Network on #InternetFragmentation - PNIF is revisiting key questions: *Is fragmentation still a concern? *How can PNIF contribute to the fragmentation discourse, including within #WSIS+20? Join the webinar 9 Oct! bit.ly/4eTyzSx

Good to be at the African World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) review meeting in Dar es Salaam. But it is shocking and sad that # UNECA (1) measures progress through lists of strategy/policy docs rather than through their implementation and (2) barely mentions civil society's contribution.