The WSIS+20 High-Level Event 2025 will take place from 7 to 11 July 2025 at Palexpo in Geneva, Switzerland, co-hosted by the ITU and the Swiss Confederation, and co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP, and UNCTAD. The event is strengthened by the collaborative engagement of other United Nations entities with the mandate of implementing the WSIS Action…
Digital Democracy Now participated in the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women was was scheduled to occur in New York from 10 to 21 March 2025. Ten delegates from DDN attended, among them participants from Bhutan, Iran and Afghanistan. We also were joined by Global Citizens Circle. Key Points: Outcome documents…
This is the summary of an article in Wired magazine. The AI-first strategy is a disaster without checks and balances. More on the danger of such a strategy to come. Elon Musk Ally Tells Staff ‘AI-First’ Is the Future of Key Government Agency SUMMARY: In a meeting, Thomas Shedd, the new director of Technology Transformation…
This lexicon was created for the Talking Digital workshop. It provides definitions of common tech terms through a social justice perspective, offering various interpretations. Readers are invited to choose the definitions that fit their context. You can download the Talking Digital Lexicon here:
DDN organized a parallel panel in collaboration with the Committee for Justice and the Egyptian Human Rights Forum at the Human Rights Council in 2024. The event was entitled Human rights in Middle East and North Africa region with special focus on Freedom of Expression in Tunisia in light of the presidential election. Co-organizers Committee…
Digital Democracy Now attended the Action Days of The Summit of the Future which took place in September 2024. The summit was a high-level UN event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future. It involved youth as its main focus. DDN…
Al and Global Challenges: Ethical Development and Responsible Deployment CCIT / CAST | EC MEDICI Framework | ICT Watch – Indonesia | Jaipuria Institute of Management Noida | Kamusi Project International | Virtual Activism [now DDN] | Loughborough University Session 199 Wednesday, 29 May 2024 , 11:00–12:00 (UTC+02:00)Physical (on-site) and Virtual (remote) participation Room 9, CICG,…
RICHARD STALLMAN, rms at gnu.org This article/letter was written in 2013. We republish it here because of its importance. On Wednesday, Stallman was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. He is founder of the Free Software Foundation and has pioneered the notion of copyleft. He said today: “It is said that ‘knowledge is power.’ Internet corporations took this…
