Pan-African digital rights group,
Paradigm Initiative, recently held a digital rights workshop for
advocates in Kano, Nigeria. The workshop, with support from Macarthur
Foundation and Centre for Information Technology and Development
(CITAD), under its social and accountability project in
Nigeria, had 50
participants in attendance.
The workshop was focused on topics
around digital rights such as gender perspective to digital rights and
the challenges women face online; tackling hate speech and fake news;
navigating the grey areas while respecting rights to free speech;
digital rights; media advocacy as well as basic digital security tools
and practices.
The Digital Rights workshop was part of
Paradigm Initiative strategy to employ a proactive approach to ensure
that organisations and individuals whose work depend largely on the
openness of the internet, as well as those who engage the government
through online activism, understand the human rights dynamics on the
internet.
Paradigm Initiative has hosted more than
10 editions of the workshop in diverse locations across Nigeria and
many African countries such as The Gambia, Uganda, Cameroon and Zambia.
The workshop has now held two times in North West Nigeria. In March
2015, an edition was hosted in Kaduna, Nigeria.
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