Advancing Digital Justice and Inclusion: Insights from the APC 2025 Annual Report

• In 2025, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) supported 206 initiatives across 48 countries, focusing on social, gender, and environmental justice within the digital sphere.
• The network actively worked to secure rights and justice perspectives in global technology policies.

Building Common Agendas

• The Local Networks (LocNet) initiative, in partnership with Rhizomatica, successfully reframed community networks as social enterprises, securing institutional support for blended financing models.
• APC spearheaded the "Digital Justice Now!" campaign, coordinating over 100 organizations to influence the WSIS+20 process and advocate for inclusive digital financing via a new UNGIS inter-agency task force.

Regional Impact and Multistakeholder Collaboration

• Asia-Pacific: The Digital Rights Asia-Pacific Assembly (DRAPAC) in Malaysia and regional gatherings facilitated solidarity among members across India, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan.
• Africa: Events including HakiConf (DRC), FIFAfrica (Namibia), and DataFest Africa (Uganda) bridged the gap between activists, technologists, and government policymakers.
• Latin America: The launch of the Latin American Observatory of Digital Threats and support for LaLibre.net in Ecuador helped strengthen digital safety and advocacy in challenging political environments.

Feminist Digital Rights and FLOSS Advocacy

• The Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) bolstered the capacity of 10 Global South partners to conduct research and challenge technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV).
• The network established peer-led protection systems, including a formal certification program for displaced Burmese women human rights defenders.
• Efforts were scaled to raise awareness of free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) funding and design, including the "People Behind the Technologies We Want" interview series by Sursiendo.