CADE Capacity Development Programme for CSOs 2025–2026 Technical Knowledge Track
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 these policies are developed – and how civil society can engage – is essential for protecting rights and ensuring accountability.
This self-paced course introduces the main dimensions of digital policy from a civil society perspective. It explores how global and regional processes affect national realities and community work, and how organisations can participate in shaping fair, inclusive, and rights-respecting digital environments.
The course covers six interconnected modules:
- Module 1. The foundations of internet governance and why it matters for CSOs
- Module 2. The infrastructure that underpins the internet
- Module 3. Human rights and sociocultural dimensions of the digital environment
- Module 4. Cybersecurity challenges
- Module 5. Legal and economic dimensions of internet governance
- Module 6. Actors and processes in digital governance
As part of the Technical Knowledge Track within the CADE Capacity Development Programme for CSOs 2025–2026, participants who successfully complete this course receive a Certificate of Completion, which enables them to proceed to the next step in their learning journey, an in-depth interactive course in one of the following specialisations:
- Infrastructure and Standards for CSOs
