This post was written by Carlos Iglesias, Senior Research Manager and originally published for The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll. Across the world, in every culture and society, there is a notion of privacy and freedom. Those
Aisha, co-convener of the famous “#BringBackOurGirls” movement, a movement pushing for the rescue of the 276 girls kidnapped from a boarding high school in Northern Nigeria by a terrorist group in 2014, never calls herself an activist or ev…
Gifty* is a broadcast journalist in her early 30s who lives in Accra. She has always been driven by a desire to improve the lives of others in her community, and uses her radio show to share stories related to service delivery, political co…
This post was written by Adedolapo Evelyn Adegoroye and Victoria Adaramola, Tech Hive Advisory. We’d like to thank our partners at Tech Hive Advisory for their work spearheading deceptive design research using participatory methods across A…
This post was written by Katherine Townsend, Director of Policy (Interim). Follow Katherine on Twitter @DiploKat. When Sir Tim Berners-Lee, co-founder of the Web Foundation, invented the World Wide Web, he intended to open the technology of…
Through the engagement with civil society, tech companies and government stakeholders, we identified six core building blocks that are required for greater OGBV accountability. All of the building blocks complement and reinforce each other
In 2021, the World Wide Web Foundation hosted a first-of-its-kind Technology Policy Design Lab, a series of human centred policy design workshops for diverse stakeholders to co-create solutions to online gender-based violence (OGBV). Follow…
Today, the internet mirrors the good and the bad in our societies. Unfortunately this means that it also mirrors and magnifies existing social cultural and economic inequalities, including gender inequality. The internet has provided opport…
Smartphones serve an important role in providing people with meaningful connectivity – a crucial element in the development of digital economies. A4AI has set smartphone ownership as one of the four targets of Meaningful Connectivity, as an…
In this new report we describe how, while two in three people are now online according to the current definition of internet access, billions lack the meaningful connectivity they need to make the most of the internet. This report is the fi…
The Affordability Report is an annual report produced by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), a 100+ member global coalition hosted by the Web Foundation. This year’s report explores how universal access could be achieved through re…
KatTownsend is a passionate advocate for information equity and has devoted her career to government transparency, collaboration across global partners, and improving technical capacity in theRead more This post was written by Adedolapo Eve…