CADE at ICANN84
CADE at ICANN84 Annual General Meeting 2025 GNSO: NCSG Discussion on DNS Blocking and Human Rights Friday, 25 October 2025, 08:00–09:00 UCT Convention Centre Dublin, Ireland For details, visit: https://icann84.sched.com/event/29QGd/gnso-ncsg-discussion-on-dns-blocking-and-human-rights Background As part of the upcoming ICANN84 Annual General Meeting (25–30 October 2025) in Dublin, the Civil Society Alliances [...]
CADE launches Mapping and Baseline Study
Thursday, 2 October 2025, 15:00–16:30 CEST For details, email cade@diplomacy.edu Background The CADE consortium, in collaboration with Forus, DiploFoundation, ECNL, and Expectation State, launched the 'CADE Mapping Report and Baseline Study' – a milestone study examining how civil society organisations (CSOs) participate in key internet governance spaces such as [...]
Towards WTDC-25 (Africa) 2025: Civil society briefing on regional priorities
2 October 2025 As part of preparations for the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-25), KICTANet held an online webinar on 2 October 2025 to brief civil society on the ITU development process and Kenya’s preparations for Baku. The Communications Authority of Kenya outlined the ITU structure, the WTDC mandate [...]
Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica) 2025 – Peer-to-peer learning dialogues to local CSOs in Africa
23–24 September 2025 As part of the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica) 2025, held from 22 to 26 September in Windhoek, Namibia, CIPESA organised a two-day workshop on 23 and 24 September 2025 titled ‘Amplifying Achievements of Digital Rights Advocacy through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR): Testimonies [...]
CADE Raising Her Voice: Supporting Women Through Storytelling, Digital Media and AI Artivism across Nepal
22 September, 2025 More than 40 young women – many from Dalit and Janajati communities that have historically been marginalised – came together in Nepal on 22 November for Raising Her Voice, an initiative by HopeRise Foundation Nepal coordinated by Forus as part of the Civil Society Alliances for [...]
Promoting Gender Perspectives and Digital Rights: Fundación Karisma Showcases CADE Initiatives at IGF Colombia 2025
15 September Fundación Karisma, under CADE, organised two events at IGF in Colombia. The first, held on 15 September at Auditorio Fundadores, was a panel on Internet Governance with a Gender Perspective using the World Café methodology. It focused on integrating gender into digital policy, drawing on APC’s gender-sensitive [...]
CADE at WSIS+20 Forum 2025
From the outside looking in? An informal dialogue on standard-setting, stakeholder inclusion, and power dynamics Wednesday, 9th July 2025, 12:00–14:00 CEST For details email cade@diplomacy.edu Background As the international digital governance landscape continues to evolve, questions around inclusion, legitimacy, and coordination in standard-setting and multistakeholder processes have become increasingly [...]
CADE heads to IGF 2025 in Oslo
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. [...]
