We are working with project partners in India and Sri Lanka to strengthen freedom of expression on the Internet in South East Asia. This project is one of the first to apply the recent recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression. It aims to build on these, creating country specific recommendations and civil society outreach initiatives in the region.

Global Partners is travelling to Egypt at the end of this month to kick off its Transparency and Open Information
project, funded by the Arab Partnership Initiative under the FCO. GPA will be working the its project partner AFA
(the Arab Forum for Alternatives) to help set up an information taskforce. The task force will be made up of civil
society, academics and public officials. They will draw on experiences from the Global South, specifically Kenya
and South Africa, to draw up an action plan around access to information and open data systems for Egyptians.

Global Partners is attending the sixth annual Internet Governance Forum (September 27-30, 2011) in Nairobi, Kenya. The Internet Governance Forum developed out of the World Summit on the Information Society as a global, multi-stakeholder forum for developing bottom up approaches to Internet Governance challenges. We are co-organising workshops on “Development, Empowerment and Access to the Internet”, “Exporting the Internet: Human Rights and Technology”, “Human rights: a unifying approach for development, freedom, access and diversity?”, and “Copyright and Human Rights in Internet Governance”. We are also speaking on a panel entitled: “Internet Governance Principles: initiatives toward the improvement of a global Internet Governance”.

Welcome to Global Partners new website. We hope that this site will give all our partners, clients and associates a clearer understanding of the work we do around the world. Over the next few months we’ll be updating the site with our reports, links to websites for our clients and partners, blogs from our work abroad and lots more!

If you’d like to send us feedback on the new site, or get in touch about opportunities for collaboration, please email us at hello@global-partners.co.uk.

Digital communication technologies present significant new challenges for protecting the right to privacy. UNESCO has commissioned Global Partners to map the key challenges and opportunities for privacy protection on the Internet, and to produce a global overview of legal and regulatory approaches affecting privacy on the Internet. The project is being delivered together with Toby Mendel (Centre for Law and Democracy) and Ben Wagner (European University Institute), and is being overseen by an advisory committee of regional and international privacy experts. The final report will provide the informational foundations for effective policy making by both states and Internet companies to better protect privacy online.

Digital communication technologies present significant new challenges for protecting the right to privacy. UNESCO has commissioned Global Partners to map the key challenges and opportunities for privacy protection on the Internet, and to produce a global overview of legal and regulatory approaches affecting privacy on the Internet. The project is being delivered together with Toby Mendel (Centre for Law and Democracy) and Ben Wagner (European University Institute), and is being overseen by an advisory committee of regional and international privacy experts. The final report will provide the informational foundations for effective policy making by both states and Internet companies to better protect privacy online.