The report serves as an entry point to this ‘forecasting’ stream of work that organizations working in the digital rights ecosystem often overlook, especially when resources are scarce, and they are focused on current challenges and ongoing projects.
This document seeks to catalyze and inform conversations regarding the context in which digital rights and resilience activism will take place in the future. For the purposes of this report, digital rights refers to the protection and advancement of human rights in a context in which digital technologies are transforming human life. From a technical perspective, digital resilience will be used to refer to the ability of digital technologies to continue operating as safe and useful tools for the social justice activists that rely on them to advance their work1 . This brief seeks to inform discussions at the intersection of these agendas. In particular, it aims to contribute to these efforts from a Global South perspective and set of values, shedding light on some of the specific environments that organizations within these regions might face in the coming years. The hope is that having such conversations will increase their ability to anticipate risks or benefit from the digital ecosystem and the civil society organizations that are a part of it. The report builds on interviews with around 20 human rights and digital rights practitioners, as well as desk research and data analysis, to provide a horizon scoping of three key areas: government and geopolitics, technology, and activism.
Parent organization: Global Network for Social Justice and Digital Resilience
The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.
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On May 1, 2025 (Law Day), lawyers across the country are encouraged to participate in #ReaffirmTheOath—a nonpartisan, nonpolitical national grassroots effort empowering lawyers in communities large and small to speak out, stand together, and publicly renew their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law.