Digital Rights
Promoting transparency and accountability regarding digital rights in Africa is part of iWatch Africa’s core mandate. Our reportage and advocacy focuses on three main areas: I. Data Governance, II. Digital Inclusion and III. Security, Safety, Stability and Resilience.
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Predictions for 2021: Digital Rights, Global Security, Climate Change & Expectations of the Biden Administration – Part 1
With a very challenging 2020 dominated by the global COVID-19 pandemic quickly coming to an end, iWatch Africa is looking…
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#FIFAfrica20: iWatch Africa accounts for its efforts at sanitising the online space of Ghana
iWatch Africa, a not-for-profit organisation, based in Accra on 29th September 2020 presented to the world its efforts at developing…
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#FIFAfrica20: iWatch Africa calls on tech multinationals to do more to protect journalists & rights activists in Africa
Policy Director of iWatch Africa, Gideon Sarpong has called on tech multinationals such as Facebook, Google and Twitter to do…
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Q2 Report: Manasseh Azure, Nana Aba Anamoah & Justice Annan among most abused journalists online
iWatch Africa’s second-quarter tracking of online abuse and harassment directed at journalists and rights activists in Ghana has established that…
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STATEMENT: iWatch Africa petitions Police CID over individuals who threatened journalists online
iWatch Africa has officially submitted a complaint against three individuals who consistently threatened journalists; Manasseh Azure Awuni and Afia Pokua…
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SURVEY: iWatch Africa Digital Rights Stakeholder Engagement
iWatch Africa with support from the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), through the Africa…
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Ghana: Bridget Otoo, Manasseh Azure, Anas Amereyaw among most abused journalists online
iWatch Africa’s three month-long data tracking of abuse and harassment directed at journalists within the digital ecosystem in Ghana has…
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Ghana: Journalists receive more threats & abuses on Twitter than any other digital platform
Introduction iWatch Africa, as part of our efforts to promote digital rights in Ghana have empirically established that Journalists, Media…
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