Blogs

During the last week of September, the Greater Internet Freedom (GIF) team hosted the Organizational Security Village (OrgSec Village), a four-day event in sunny Estoril, Portugal, as a satellite event of Team CommUNITY’s Global Gathering.

There is a significant cybercrime crisis in Zambia, involving issues such as money fraud, bank hacking, surveillance, Internet abuse, and cyberbullying, which have affected the community for years.

Over the years, Uganda has remained in a perpetual state of limited Internet freedom and digital rights. The freedom of expression online is suppressed, posing threats to numerous media and digital rights activists in the country.

In the digital age, where the Internet has become an essential part of everyday life, the question of digital rights and digital security is more critical than ever. In Sri Lanka, the Greater Internet Freedom’s (GIF) local partner – Hashtag Generation, organization led and run by a group of young tech-savvy, socially conscious Sri Lankans, has been working on advocating for the meaningful civic and political participation of youth, especially young women and young people from minority groups. And since the start of the GIF project, their focus expanded on informing the youth, as well as marginalized groups, about digital rights and how to protect them, as well as on digital security, and how to stay safe in online spaces.

Being conflict-ridden, DRC presents a plethora of challenges in advancing Internet freedom and digital security.

The Office of Civil Freedoms in Tajikistan has initiated efforts to protect personal data in the country through a strong collaboration with the Global Network Initiative (GNI) and Ranking Digital Rights (RDR). This effort, part of the Greater Internet Freedom (GIF) project, seeks to engage the government, business sector, and society in a concerted drive to enhance digital rights in the country.

As technology use increases globally, the disparity between communities with access to information and communication technologies and those without has become more pronounced. This digital divide manifests in various ways, including discrepancies in Internet connection quality and speed, digital literacy, and technology utilization.

With a population nearing 20 million, Kazakhstan is the second most populous country in Central Asia, and these numbers are projected to continue growing. The population of Kazakhstan is young, with a median age of 29, and the majority are avid internet users. The potential for digital entrepreneurship, e-commerce, and online education is vast, and the internet and digital sector play a significant role in everyday life.