Global Voices Advocacy’s Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world. At the UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum in Brazil this week, several activists were stopped from demonstrating in support of net neutrality and against Facebook’s Internet.org application, which is now known as “Free Basics”. Civil…
10 November 2015 – To cover the “breadth and depth” of the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals, the potential of the data revolution must be explored through the use of new and non-traditional sources of data, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed at the 10th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which opened today in João…
Recently, we all have witnessed the ray of tricolor profile pictures on the internet and especially on the most popular social networking site, Facebook. This practice started when Mark Zukerberg, CEO of Facebook Inc. changed his profile picture with overlying tri-colors resembling the Indian flag. The change of profile pictures was in support of making…
Author’s name: Buddha Deb, Digital Empowerment Foundation India João Pessoa, Brazil IGF 2015: The right to protest online Internet Governance Forum: The right to protest online In the digital age, protests are no longer limited to assemblies and gatherings in physical spaces but are increasingly taking place, in whole or in part, online. Although calls have…