Digital Rights

The impact of internet shutdowns and connectivity challenges on democratic participation in Uganda

Uganda has seen a significant rise in internet users over the past decade, which is in large part due to mobile internet access becoming more affordable for many citizens.

Is Digital Inequality a Justice Issue?

A community leader from Digital Grassroots in front of a classroom, training his community on digital literacy.

The Internet has also broken territorial boundaries, and this creates new challenges in enforcing equity and human rights, especially for the most marginalized. The theory of abnormal justice offers new ways of framing digital rights as a human rights issue in practice, thereby safeguarding the future of the Open internet.

The Internet in 2030: Digital Rights Experts on the Decade Ahead

As we head into the next decade, the Open Internet for Democracy Initiative reached out to digital rights luminaries from around the globe to get their take on how they hope the internet will evolve over this next decade. Below are their responses to our prompt: What is your vision of the internet in 2030? What current challenges do you hope we will have solved by then?