#DigitalInclusion #MeaningfulConnectivity #ConnectedResilience

Partner Highlights from 2025: Progress Toward Meaningful Connectivity - Global Digital Inclusion Partnership We’re proud to shine a spotlight on some of our incredible civil society partners and their achievements from 2025.

ICYMI: Our partners delivered BIG impact in 2025 🌍✨
From inclusive digital skills & refugee employment to community networks & women-led innovation, this is meaningful connectivity in action.

🔗Read the highlights: globaldigitalinclusion.org/2025/12/18/p...

Digital Citizen Summit: Speakers flag deep barriers keeping women out of digital world digital summit

🌐 www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/tec...

🇮🇳 @snjorge.bsky.social has been on a roll at the #DigitalCitizenSummit in Hyderabad!

Part of the #CNX track, she joined 5 sessions & supported more on #communitynetworks, #datagovernance & #digitalrights.
📸It was great to reconnect with partners across Asia & #ICTWatch 🇮🇩

Proud partner of #DEFindia

Hear from GDIP’s @afrodiva.bsky.social & Waqas Hassan alongside changemakers from Meta, APNIC Foundation, PTA & CCOAI.

Together, we’ll explore how to turn policy promises into real inclusion for women in the digital economy.
@intgovforum.bsky.social

#DigitalInclusion #AsiaPacific

APrIGF 2025: October 2025, Kathmandu, Nepal The 16th Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF 2025) event is going to be held in the Nepal Administrative Staff College Lalitpur, Nepal from 11 - 14TH October 2025.

The gender digital divide isn’t just a social issue it’s an economic crisis.
At #APrIGF2025, GDIP will lead a powerful discussion on: Prioritising Digital Gender Inclusion in Asia: From Token Mentions to Transformative Action.

📍Kathmandu | 🗓️ 13 Oct | 🕦 11:30–12:30 Nepal Time
🔗https://aprigf.org.np/

Over two days, participants designed 4 CCC models to help expand inclusive, community-led connectivity across Pakistan. 🌍

#DigitalEquity #ConnectivityForAll

Great to see our Regional Lead for Asia, Waqas Hassan, co-leading a workshop with PTA and ISOC @internetsociety.bsky.social on Community-Centered Connectivity (CCC) in Islamabad.

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Support our work - Global Digital Inclusion Partnership Today, internet access is no longer a luxury; it’s a lifeline. It’s how people learn, earn, bank, access healthcare, find critical information, and connect with opportunities. Yet 2.6 billion people, ...

✨Support GDIP’s #LoadingEquity campaign:

🔗 globaldigitalinclusion.org/donate/

Why Meaningful Connectivity Can’t Wait

🌍2.6 billion people remain offline. Billions more lack meaningful connectivity.

Digital progress must include everyone.

Join GDIP’s #LoadingEquity campaign.

✨Every donation helps close the gender digital divide.

#StopTheSpin #DigitalEquity

Reflections from Geneva: WSIS+20 and the Urgency of Inclusive Digital Futures - Global Digital Inclusion Partnership Representing GDIP at WSIS+20 wasn’t just a professional milestone, it was a deeply personal commitment to the world I believe is possible.

people-centered digital public goods.

The message is clear:

✔️ Connectivity is a right, not a privilege
✔️ AI must center equity and accountability
✔️ Digital futures must be shaped with communities, not just for them

Access the full blog here: globaldigitalinclusion.org/2025/08/06/r...

🌍 As we look ahead to #UNGA, it’s vital to pause and reflect on what recent global gatherings like #WSIS20 revealed: digital inclusion is no longer optional, it’s urgent.

@afrodiva.bsky.social shares powerful reflections from Geneva on meaningful connectivity, AI governance and the need for...

📊 From the latest #EQUALS Report: digital inclusion isn’t one-size-fits-all.
Policies must be:
✅ Gender-transformative
✅ Contextualized
✅ Inclusive
✅ Competency-based

GDIP in Ch 2.1: “Beyond access + skills”

📣“Access is just the beginning.”

Full report here: sites.google.com/view/equals-...

Grateful to @iaffe.bsky.social for hosting an inspiring conference on feminist economics. Our session on #ConnectedResilience sparked vital conversations on tech, gender, and justice.

Let’s keep pushing for equitable digital futures. #IAFFE2025 #FeministTech #worldbank @internetsociety.bsky.social

"Harnessing Digital Public Goods & Fostering Digital Cooperation: A Multi-disciplinary Contribution to WSIS+20 Review"

📅 Tuesday, 8 July
🕑 14:00–14:45 CET
📍 Room F

🌐 How can we better harness digital public goods to build a more inclusive, sustainable digital future beyond 2025?

Join global thought leaders for a dynamic #WSIS+20 thematic workshop:⬇️
@afrodiva.bsky.social @snjorge.bsky.social @wsis20sec.bsky.social @itu.int @unesco.org

#IGF2025 to #WSIS20
📍Re-live the #IGF2025 sessions here: www.igf2025.no

“Digital inclusion isn’t a luxury, it’s a lifeline!”
Wrapped up a powerful week at #IGF2025 🇳🇴
I was honored to:
✅Reaffirm commitment to gender digital inclusion
✅Join bold discussions on data, equity & access
✅Represent @gdinclusion’s people-first model

It’s time for:
🔹 A digital development tax
🔹 Global tax transparency
🔹 An end to regressive user taxes
🔹 Fair digital trade rules
🔹 A UN Tax Convention
🔹 Action on Big Tech tax evasion

📄 Read & endorse: gdjf.globaldigitaljusticeforum.net/submission/n...

The Global Digital Inclusion Partnership proudly supports the #GlobalDigitalJusticeForum’s open letter ahead of #WSIS20.

🌍 There’s #NoDigitalJusticeWithoutFiscalJustice.

@wsis20sec.bsky.social @afrodiva.bsky.social @snjorge.bsky.social @unwomen.bsky.social @itu.int @apc.org

🎤 Catch us at:
25/6 – 14h: PNMA Main
25/6 – 15:30: Monitoring Inclusion
26/6 – 12:45: Gender Mainstreaming
27/6 – 10:30: Bridging the Gap
More at 👉 igf2025.no
#DigitalInclusion #GlobalMajority
@afrodiva.bsky.social

#IGF2025 🇳🇴!

Meetings with Pakistan's PTA Chairman pushing digital inclusion + Pakistan’s gender digital inclusion strategy.

GDIP is on the ground: panels, side meetings & connecting with brilliant partners flying the flag for Meaningful Connectivity for the Global Majority.

🚨@afrodiva.bsky.social will be representing #GDIP at #IGF2025 in Norway 🇳🇴

📌June 25 – PNMA Main Session
📌June 25 – Digital Inclusion Through Monitoring
📌June 27 – Bridging the Connectivity Gap
Essential conversations on access, rights & inclusion.
🌍 igf2025.no
#DigitalRights #IGF2025 #Connectivity

More here: iias.asia/event/africa...

🌍 GDIP is in Dakar for the 3rd Africa-Asia Conference-Festival (#AA3ConFest)!

From June 11–14, we’re joining scholars, artists, policymakers & activists from 60+ countries to deepen Afro-Asian ties & build inclusive futures — in the spirit of Bandung 1955.

📍Will you be there?

We are pleased to have shared our work and insights with the global subsea community. 🌍🌐

#DigitalInclusion #SubseaCables #InfrastructurePolicy #GDIP #GlobalConnectivity

3️⃣ The work hashtag#GDIP continues to do with policymakers is more important than ever. Equipping leaders with the knowledge and experience to support inclusive digital infrastructure is vital to realising digital transformation in the global majority.

2️⃣ Regulatory certainty, especially around permitting, is critical to lower costs, speed up deployment, and enable more diverse landing routes.

1️⃣ Growth must be matched by robust policy, legal, and regulatory approaches to ensure sustainable and inclusive deployment. There’s a pressing need to share global good practices.

🇵🇹 Last week @snjorge.bsky.social participated in the #SubOptic2025 conference in Lisbon. Check out key takeaways from the event below.

🌊The subsea cable sector is expanding rapidly & gaining the global attention it deserves!

But as demand for digital capacity surges, three key takeaways emerged: