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An open letter, signed by 14 not-for-profits, called upon the government to suspend the implementation of Indias new IT rules, which came into effect last month.
Read more about Digital rights outfits call upon Indian govt to roll back IT Rules on Business Standard. Coalition of 14 such outfits is also asking corporations to step up against intrusion by Indian authorities into the rights of millions of people who use their services everyday
APC On 4 June 2021, the government of Nigeria “suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter” in the country. The decision was announced days after a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari was deleted by the platform. Since then, access to Twitter through Nigeria's main phone service providers has been blocked, according to news reports. So far the government has not detailed how the ban will be operationalised in practice. Also, no further explanations have been given to justify the ban beyond a reference to the “persistent use of the ...
Right groups, digital privacy rights organizations and researchers call on Google to halt its plans to establish a "Cloud region" in Saudi Arabia, pointing to the country's track record of violating privacy rights to spy on citizens.
Why are people's relationships important in online work? A network is only as strong as the people that are part of it. Working for social change requires passion and commitment to a cause. This becomes even more crucial if the work we do is mostly online, because the support of our co-workers is distant and it is easy to lose motivation or the sense of urgency when we interact through a phone, pad, tablet or computer screen instead of face to face. In this sense, it is important for your organisation to make explicit what you believe in and build common ground among the people in your networ...