On 7 August 2024, CADE and partners hosted a webinar titled CSOs Engagement in Digital Policy Processes: Lessons from the Global Digital Compact Process, bringing together 40 participants from five regions. The event examined civil society’s role in shaping global digital governance and reviewed current concerns with the GDC process, including a lack of [...]
A webinar on 7 August 2024 focused on the role of CSOs in digital policy processes, particularly the GDC. Participants highlighted the need for a unified civil society voice in decision-making at the UN, and shared key concerns – such as the lack of human rights references, gender perspectives, and issues with mass surveillance [...]
In the first half of 2024, the Libres y Conectadas coalition – including Karisma, Artemisas, FLIP and others – played a key role in reshaping Colombia’s draft Digital Gender Violence Bill. Following public criticism of an earlier version, the coalition was invited into a technical working group convened by three members of Congress. Through [...]
On 31 May 2024, the Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) project was launched at the WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event in Geneva. Dr Stephanie Borg Psaila, CADE project coordinator at DiploFoundation, introduced the organisations collaborating on the project and their representatives: Dr Jovan Kurbalija of DiploFoundation, Karolina Iwańska of the European Center for [...]
Geneva, 11 June 2024. The CADE project, an ambitious initiative designed to empower civil society organisations (CSOs) to participate more actively in digital policy processes, was officially launched on 31 May in Geneva. The launch was attended by Ambassador Lotte Knudsen, Permanent Representative of the European Union to the UN in Geneva, Prof. Jovan Kurbalija, [...]
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
