APC at RightsCon 2026
APC priorities for RightsCon 2026
India’s race to adopt AI sparks a deeper question: How can technology respect human rights?
The rise of AI-enabled monitoring, such as facial recognition systems at railway stations and predictive policing technologies used by police across different cities, has continued largely without…
When research becomes a point of connection
The digital crown: Reclaiming human dignity in the age of AI
Human rights have been the base and continue to be the base on which other laws including constitutions of nations are shaped and have a greater influence on how AI should be built and governed. We…
APC at RightsCon 2026: Schedule
RightsCon26 is back for its 14th edition, this year taking place in Lusaka, Zambia, from 5 to 8 May 2026. This is an opportunity to APC's community come together around key themes, to share our…
Gender in Digital Coalition final statement on WSIS+20
Between the algorithmisation of territories and the monoculture of data: Are there paths towards AI that respect rights and life?
On Earth Day, our Mariana Tamari addressed an urgent issue in our series: In the parallel universe created by the corporate sector, the imminent climate collapse simply does not exist. The promised…
For AI to work for us, it will have to stop pretending to be us
"When I question whether AI can ever be ethical or feminist, even in some alternate timeline, it doesn’t come from cynicism for the sake of it, but from years of watching patterns repeat. The…
An ecosystem of digital repression: The silencing of women human rights defenders and other pro-democracy activists in Myanmar
Since the military coup in 2021, Myanmar has witnessed an alarming escalation in digital repression. The tactics used have disproportionately affected human rights defenders (HRDs), particularly…
Joint letter to the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence co-chairs on multistakeholder participation
Communicating a free internet of the future
The underlying idea for the Building a Free Internet of the Future series was for us to play a role in promoting both the NGI0 cascade funding programme and the emerging projects that benefit from…
On centring the human
"What if instead of recentring the human, we expanded our sense of relation – recognising that intelligence, consciousness and care take multiple, entangled forms across species, systems and…
There is no connection but human: Why it is vital to value human creativity in the age of AI
We asked the authors: "Why is it vital to value human creativity and connection in the age of AI?" This is Daria Dergacheva perspective: Generative AI does not write, design or paint: it…
Implementing human-centred public policies for closing the digital divide
The Third Forum on Telecommunications in Rural Areas and Indigenous Communities, held on 24 March 2026 in Puebla, Mexico, highlighted the fact that the digital divide does not only involve a…
Editorial: Don’t ask AI, ask a peer
What happens when we stop asking AI, and start asking each other again? This new series, Don't Ask AI, Ask A Peer, centres on something we're at risk of losing in the age of generative AI,…
The Amazon: Toward meaningful connectivity that keeps the forest standing
Community networks shaping policies for digital inclusion in South Africa
Uneven Enforcement of Data Protection Laws Puts Data Subjects Rights at Risk in Uganda’s 2026 Polls
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