{"id":43734,"date":"2022-02-21T09:57:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T09:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=43734"},"modified":"2022-02-24T08:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T08:51:03","slug":"paradigm-initiative-advocates-for-digital-rights-and-inclusion-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2022\/02\/21\/paradigm-initiative-advocates-for-digital-rights-and-inclusion-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradigm Initiative advocates for digital rights and inclusion in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paradigm Initiative (PIN), a Pan-African social enterprise has announced it is set to host a series of digital rights advocacy sessions dubbed \u2018Digi-Talks with Focus<strong>\u2019<\/strong> across 10 African countries using its short film Focus, a visual representation of its 2020 annual report Londa that highlights digital rights and inclusion infractions in 20 African countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Digi-Talks with Focus will run between February 15<sup>th<\/sup> and March 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 2022, in Cameroon, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sessions will feature the screening of Focus, a look at the findings of the Londa report, an open conversation on the state of digital rights and inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, PIN will convene these sessions with local partners in each country bringing together diverse audiences over half a day sessions. The sessions will also provide opportunities for engaging conversations and to make key recommendations to enhance digital rights on the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To enhance digital rights and combat online violations in Africa, PIN will be presenting its tools of impact such as Ripoti.Africa, a platform that enables online users to report digital rights violations in Africa including breaches of online privacy, and Ayeta.Africa, a toolkit for African digital rights actors aimed at addressing the growing need to safeguard activists, journalists, whistle-blowers, and others working with sensitive information in the global South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradigm Initiative (PIN), a Pan-African social enterprise has announced it is set to host a series of digital rights advocacy sessions dubbed \u2018Digi-Talks with Focus\u2019 across 10 African countries using its short film Focus, a visual representation of its 2020 annual report Londa that highlights digital rights and inclusion infractions in 20 African countries. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9058,9059,13,9060],"tags":[15125,2615,6253,708,297,1182,1028,715,982,1906,926],"class_list":["post-43734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-south-africa","category-top-stories","category-west-africa","tag-ayeta-africa","tag-cameroon","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-ghana","tag-kenya","tag-malawi","tag-namibia","tag-tanzania","tag-uganda","tag-zambia","tag-zimbabwe"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43736,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43734\/revisions\/43736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}