Artificial intelligence (AI) transforms how societies are governed, how economies function, and how people exercise their rights. For civil society organisations (CSOs), AI brings both new opportunities and urgent challenges: it can empower advocacy and analysis, but it can also deepen inequalities and concentrate power. AI Policy and Practice for CSOs equips participants to [...]
Cybersecurity has become a defining policy issue of the digital age. Once confined to technical specialists, it now shapes how nations safeguard critical infrastructure, how companies manage risk, and how people exercise their rights online. For CSOs, cybersecurity is a policy field that links technology, rights, and international cooperation. Decisions about what to protect, [...]
Are you concerned about how digital policies affect your work and the communities you serve? Do you wonder how decisions about data, cybersecurity, or online content are made – and who makes them? Digital policy issues such as surveillance, privacy, artificial intelligence (AI), and internet shutdowns shape daily life and civic space. Understanding how [...]
The 20th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be held in Lillestrøm, Norway, from 23 to 27 June 2025, under the theme Building Governance Together. The forum will provide a key opportunity to the global internet community to shape the future of internet governance ahead of the WSIS+20 process. The Civil Society Alliances for [...]
On 18 December 2024, during IGF 2024 in Riyadh, the CADE consortium hosted a workshop titled Empowering Civil Society: Bridging Gaps in Policy Influence. With close to 40 participants joining in person and online, the session explored how CSOs – especially from the Global South – can overcome structural barriers to engaging in global digital [...]
On 21 November 2024, Karisma held a satellite session alongside Colombia IGF 2024 in Bogotá to explore internet outages and service restrictions across Latin America. The session focused on identifying patterns of service disruption and equipping affected users and civil society actors with tools to monitor, record, and seek accountability for such incidents. Drawing [...]
On 6 November 2024, Karisma delivered a workshop at the Youth LACIGF in Santiago, Chile, based on its Sexting School initiative. The session engaged nearly 40 young leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean in a dialogue on digital safety, gender, and consent in online spaces. Participants discussed sexting as a care-based practice, analysed regional [...]
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, CADE participated in the WSIS Forum in Geneva with a session on Empowering Civil Society in Digital Policy. Representatives from the ITU, DiploFoundation, ECNL and SMEX joined the panel to discuss why CSO participation remains limited in internet standards-setting bodies, and how this can change. Speakers proposed concrete improvements to inclusivity [...]
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a non-profit corporation overseeing global Internet unique identifiers. It coordinates allocation of critical resources like domain names and IP addresses. Formerly overseen by the US Department of Commerce, ICANN now manages these functions through its affiliate Public Technical Identifiers post-transition in 2016. ICANN establishes policies for Internet naming and numbering through a consensus-driven, multistakeholder approach.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
