We recommend the following literature and links to prepare for the African School on Internet Governance. Documents in bold should be prioritised for reading prior to the school:
CLUSTER 1 – OVERVIEW OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE ISSUES AND INSTITUTIONS
APC ICTs Policy Handbook (second edition)
An introduction to internet governanceHuman Rights and Internet Governance_AfriSIG 2019
African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms
Feminist Principles of the Internet
Women’s rights, gender and Internet governance
Inside the Information Society: ICTs, the Internet and structural inequality
The human rights paradigm in internet governance: An interview with David Souter
Watching Cameroon through the lenses of the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms
Internet governance and development
Extracting lessons from NETmundial
Beyond Access: Addressing Digital Inequality in Africa
Intersection between women’s rights and internet governance in Uganda
Internet for Men?: The Digital Marginalisation of Women in Northern Nigeria
CLUSTER 4 – CYBERSECURITY AND DATA PROTECTION
African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection
Briefing document: Cybersecurity policy and human rights
Cybersecurity Culture, Norms and Values
Inside the Information Society: The future of cybersecurity
EU Data Protection Package – Lacking ambition but saving the basics
Data protection: Rules for the protection of personal data inside and outside the EU
GDPR – Not Just An EU Concern: The Implications For Africa
Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model for Nations (CMM): The country studies conducted so far
Big Brother Watch and others vs United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights, September 2018
Understanding the Difference between Cyber Security and Cyber Crime
CLUSTER 5 – MULTI-STAKEHOLDER APPROACHES TO INTERNET GOVERNANCE
African Union Declaration on Internet Governance and the Development of African’s Digital Economy
Issues in AU Declaration on Internet Governance
Addressing Uganda’s Transparency and accountability challenges
Inside the Information Society: The what and why of multistakeholder participation
Inside the Information Society: Multistakeholder participation, a work in progress
Inside the Information Society: Mutistakeholderism and multilateralism
Inside the Information Society: Enhanced cooperation for enhanced cooperation?
Inside the Information Society: The Internet – but whose jurisdiction?
Lifting the veil on ICT gender indicators in Africa
A toolkit for researching women’s internet access and use
UNESCO: What if we could all govern the internet
KICTANet: 10 years of ICT Policy Discourse in Kenya
IGF Academy Transfer Guide: Sharing Learning and Experience
Mapping of multi-stakeholder structures related to digital policies and decision-making in Africa
2019 Presentations
Self study lecture to: The history of the Internet with Dr. Wolfgang Kleinwaechter
Ariel Barbosa: Internet governance and the impact on the environment
Bob Ochieng: ICANN and the Internet Ecosystem
Gayatri Khandhadai: Human Rights and Internet Governance
George Sadowsky: Early networking history in Africa
Josephine Miliza: How the unconnected are connecting themselves
Koliwe Majama: Internet governance and exclusion / inclusion. Gender
Leila Nachawati: AfriSIG 2019 Communications orientation
Mallory Knodel: Internet architecture and protocols
2019 Practicum
Key Reading:
The Age of Digital Interdependence
Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation
Preparatory Webinar Presentation – Avri Doria
29 & 30 August 2019
South Africa is caught up in the global hype of th fourth industrial revolution – Alison Gillwald