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Key findings of ITU’s “Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures 2024” report

55 years ago2 weeks ago03 mins

Key Findings from ITU’s 2024 Digital Development Report 1. Global Internet Connectivity 2. Digital Divides 3. Affordability 4. Infrastructure & Technology 5. Digital Skills 6. Policy & Commitments While global connectivity is improving, deep inequalities persist across income levels, gender, geography, and skills. The report calls for urgent action to bridge divides, particularly in affordability, rural access, and digital literacy,…

Lexicon created by Digital Rights for All Fund

55 years ago3 weeks ago01 mins

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:

The Manila Principles

55 years ago3 weeks ago08 mins

https://manilaprinciples.org/ The internet has become the backbone of modern communication, enabling billions of people to share ideas, engage in commerce, and participate in public discourse. At the heart of this ecosystem are intermediaries—Internet service providers (ISPs), social media platforms, search engines, and other digital services that facilitate the flow of information. However, the legal frameworks…

Pegasus: a Report by the Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs Directorate-General for Internal Policies

55 years ago4 weeks ago03 mins

The impact of Pegasus on fundamental rights and democratic processes Pegasus is a sophisticated surveillance software developed by the Israeli cyber intelligence company NSO Group. The software is capable of gaining access to and monitoring a wide range of information on a target’s smartphone, including text messages, emails, location data, and even live microphone and…

Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2022

55 years ago4 weeks ago01 mins

UN Women just released its report on Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2022 [pdf] on September 7th. The report presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 goals, calling out the long road ahead to achieve gender equality. It emphasizes the interlinkages among the goals, the pivotal force gender…

IPCC report on climate change, 22

55 years ago4 weeks ago010 mins

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th report on climate change is out and it is disturbing. The report is entitled Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, 2022. The report is authored by 270 authors from 67 countries and it assesses the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and human communities at global…

UN Women Report, 22

55 years ago4 weeks ago01 mins

The annual report documents UN Women’s work to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality around the world. It highlights some of the organization’s initiatives during the year and provides summary financial statements, a list of new programmes and projects, and contact information. View the report https://annualreport.unwomen.org/en/2021

Documents and Reports

Declaration of Principles – from WSIS 03

55 years ago4 years ago048 mins

Building the Information Society: a global challenge in the new Millennium Document WSIS-03/GENEVA/DOC/4-E 12 December 2003 Original: English The WSIS Declaration of Principles is a framework for the use of ICTs and was created in 2003. https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html A. Our Common Vision of the Information Society 1. We, the representatives of the peoples of the…