Ephraim Percy Kenyanito

Just as the people of Uganda prepared to vote in national elections, the government ordered telecommunications companies to block Facebook and Twitter, preventing free political discourse on these platforms.

In the west African nation of Guinea Conakry, three telcos just said “no” to government demands that they hand over all subscriber and call data.

The South African government is considering a draft bill that, as written, undermines the rights to privacy, lacks transparency, and chills security research and online expression.

A look at the digital rights landscape in Mauritania and Rwanda, and the implications for people at risk of human rights violations in these countries.

This week the U.S. government issued a General License to provide users with easier access to the internet and a wide range of software, hardware, and services “incident to personal communications” in Sudan. Access applauds the move, which follows years of advocacy by our organization alongside civil society partners in the U.S. and Sudan.

In January 2015, heads of state met at the 24th African Union Summit to discuss the “African Union Agenda 2063” with the goal of enabling “a continent on equal footing with the rest of the world as an information society.” While Access applauds the human rights protections enshrined in the convention, we are deeply troubled by draft legislation that has emerged across the continent that tramples rights in the name of implementing the convention.

The parliament in Kenya approved a dangerous new national security law yesterday.

a new bill is up for a vote that could drastically affect the human rights of Kenyans

With numerous internet governance discussions scheduled, the 51st International Meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been going on this week in Los Angeles, USA. Access staff is there, participating in a variety of pre-events, workshops, and high-level meetings.

With the theme of “Connecting continents for enhanced multistakeholder Internet governance,” the ninth annual meeting of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, 2-5 September 2014. Access staff is there, participating in a variety of pre-events, workshops, and high-level meetings.