Past events

The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) is pleased to announce the 12th edition of the annual Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (#FIFAfrica25)—the continent’s leading platform for shaping digital rights, inclusion, and governance conversations.

Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) are at the heart of every struggle for justice, equality, and freedom.

Since 2020, Rural ICT Camp has become an annual gathering space for CCCI practitioners, civil society organizations, researchers and academics, policymakers, and the wider public to address the digital divide in rural and remote areas.

This lightning talk will highlight how community-centered training efforts are translated into tangible deployments. It will explore the journey from building knowledge and skills to rolling out actual fibre infrastructure, ensuring that capacity development directly leads to sustainable connectivity solutions.

With participants representing over 144 countries and 1,000 organisations and networks, the GG provides a rejuvenating environment to foster solidarity across disciplines and regions.

The web seminar will bring together Valeria Betancourt, Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones (APC), Paloma Lara Castro, Derechos Digitales, Carlos Baca, Redes AC y Rhizomática. Con moderación de Sally Burch (ALAI).

UNIDIR and the Organization of American States (OAS) are pleased to invite you to a virtual roundtable marking the English and Spanish launch of a joint publication

The Tech-Together webinar on “Bridging the Gap from Vision to Fibre Deployment: Community-Centric Approaches in Africa” will comprise three meetings to address how community networks are moving from infrastructure deployment to building lasting local capacity and inclusion through community-led f

The Prime Minister of Finland, together with United Kingdom, UNFPA and UN Women, are pleased to invite you to a reception "Leaders’ Evening Insights: Turbocharging the SDGs through gender-equal digital transformation" in the margins of the High Level Political Forum 2025. 

May First Movement Technology, together with Sursiendo, will present the research report "Actions for environmental justice through autonomous and community-based technological infrastructures."