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How Technology is Aiding the Covid-19 Fight in Africa
By CIPESA staff | As the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continues to spread globally, various African governments have imposed sweeping measures such as travel bans, curfews, prohibition of mass...
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Joint Civil Society Statement: States Use of Digital Surveillance...
Joint Statement | The COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health emergency that requires a coordinated and large-scale response by governments worldwide. However, States’ efforts to contain the virus...
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Why Access to Information on Covid-19 is Crucial to Persons with Disabilities...
By Paul Kimumwe | While the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continues to ravage the world, there is growing concern that critical messages about the disease that are disseminated by health authorities,...
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Centre for Human Rights and CIPESA conduct study on civil society in the...
By Centers for Human Rights and CIPESA / The study on Civil society in the digital age in Africa: identifying threats and mounting pushbacks was undertaken by the Centre for Human Rights, University of...
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COVID-19 Content Moderation Research Letter
Open Letter | As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, the importance of technology platforms and their real world impact has never been clearer. The various platforms are being used to...
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CIPESA Submission to UN Special Rapporteur Spotlights Rights Concerns in...
By Daniel Mwesigwa | Many African governments have employed heavy-handed methods in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. These measures, both offline and online, have undermined various rights and there...
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World Press Freedom Day: Joint Emergency Appeal For Journalism and Media Support
Statement | To mark World Press Freedom Day 2020, the Collaboration on International ICT for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) joined the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), numerous GFMD...
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Uganda’s Social Media Tax Undermining Covid-19 Fight
By Juliet Nanfuka | Globally, in the wake of the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID19), social media has played various roles, such as filling information vacuums and providing channels for...
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CIPESA Joins Call Urging Burundi Gov’t To #KeepItOn During Elections
Joint Letter | The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) has joined 30 international human rights advocacy groups of the #KeepItOn coalition in urging...
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African Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA) Denounces Restrictions on Freedoms...
Joint Letters | The African Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA) has expressed deep concern about the use of cybercrimes legislation to restrict rights and freedoms in Kenya and Nigeria. In turn, the...
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Coalition of Civil Society Groups Launches Tool to Track Responses to...
Press Release | Today, Global Partners Digital (GPD), ARTICLE 19, the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), PROTEGE QV and the Centre for Human Rights of the...
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Announcing the CIPESA 2020 Fellows
Announcement | The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) is pleased to announce the nine recipients of its 2020 fellowship awards. Introduced in 2017, CIPESA’s...
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Astou Diouf
Astou is a lawyer with undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications from Faculté des Sciences Juridiques et Politiques (FSJP), l’Université Cheik Anta DIOP de Dakar, with extensive experience in...
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Hopeton S. Dunn, PhD
Hopeton is a Professor of Media and Communications at University of Botswana. He is also a non-resident Senior Research Associate at the School of Communication, University of Johannesburg, South...
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Mohamed Farahat
Mohamed is an Egyptian human rights lawyer, specialised in refugees and migration. He is a member of the Steering Committee of Internet Rights and Principles Coalition (IRPC), a member of the...
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Tusi Fokane
Tusi, the former Executive Director of the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), will study the availability and use of digital technologies to combat the spread of Covid-19 in South Africa, with a...
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Jimmy Kainja
Jimmy Kainja is a lecturer in media, communication, and cultural studies at University of Malawi, Chancellor College. His main areas of academic and research interest are communication policy and...
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Jean Paul Nkurunziza
Jean Paul, a psychology and education sciences graduate of the University of Burundi, has been involved in digital rights policy and internet governance with the DiploFoundation and Internet Society...
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Dunia Tegegn
Dunia is a legal consultant, who has previously worked as an Almami Cyllah Fellow with Amnesty International (United States) and as a Human Rights Officer at the East Africa Regional Office of the UN...
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Melissa Zisengwe
Melissa is a Program Project Officer with the Civic Tech Innovation Network at Wits Governance School, based in South Africa. She holds an honours degree in Journalism and Media Studies and a Bachelor...
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