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The Global Digital Justice Forum, February 2025
The Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) welcomes and commends the recent joint statement issued on 26 February by the Presidents of Chile, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay, titled ‘Commitment to Democracy and Global Governance’. This landmark declaration recognizes the urgent need for “joint actions to address inequality, disinformation and the malicious use of social networks and other digital technologies that fuel extremism and polarisation of our societies”.
The Global Digital Justice Forum, February 2025
Some members of the Global Digital Justice Forum—IT for Change, APC, Global Partners Digital, Derechos Digitales, and Media Monitoring Africa—collectively prepared a submission in response to a UN survey to identify the terms of reference and modalities for the establishment and functioning of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI and the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, to be established within the United Nations.
The Global Digital Justice Forum, January 2025
In response to the call for inputs by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the undersigned civil society organizations, who are part of the Global Digital Justice Forum, welcome the opportunity to contribute to the thematic report on ‘The Use of Artificial Intelligence and the UNGPs’.
The Global Digital Justice Forum, August 2024
The Global Digital Justice Forum would like to share its perspective on the Open Letter to the UN from tech community leaders and internet innovators. Register had reported the letter in July. The Letter expresses reservations that the draft text of the Global Digital Compact (GDC) being negotiated by governments may ‘mandate more centralized governance’ that could be ‘detrimental to the world’s economies and societies’…
