Big Question: How Are Cybercrime Laws Weaponized to Legalize Repression?
Edited by Maya Recanati and Beth Kerley Across the globe, autocrats are working to quash dissent online through a combination of domestic legal tools and digital surveillance. In particular, vaguely worded...
Foreign Agents Laws
Silencing Civil Society through Stigmatizing Narratives: A Conversation with Gina Romero The growing trend of “foreign agents” laws have targeted prodemocratic civil society groups and activists...
Forum Q&A: Irene Mwendwa on Women, Data, and Democracy
As AI technologies assume increasingly prominent roles in everyday life and government decision-making, building representative tools that reflect democratic values is more important than ever. Doing so will...
Forum Q&A: Ethan Tu and Billion Lee on How Taiwan’s Civil Society...
2024 has been called the “year of elections” with over four billion people set to cast their ballots. The potential threat to the integrity of the information space is severe. For those concerned...
Borrowing Boats: How are Key Influencers in Latin America Amplifying CCP...
Edited by Nick Nunez and Kevin Sheives The International Forum for Democratic Studies asked four leading Latin American experts across civil society to consider the following question: Outside of the government...
Big Question: How Does Digital Privacy Matter for Democracy and its Advocates?
Edited by Maya Recanati and Beth Kerley Emerging technologies are creating new digital privacy risks that can undermine key democratic values and practices. For example, generative AI tools simultaneously increase...
The Big Question: How Has Beijing Suppressed and Influenced International...
Six experts consider how Beijing has sought to suppress and influence responses from the international community to its continued repression of Uyghurs in China and abroad.
The Big Question: How Can the International Community Expand Democratic...
Against the backdrop of Russia's war in Ukraine, we asked four experts what challenges lie ahead for maintaining and expanding democratic solidarity, and what action is needed to support the preservation of...
The Big Question: How Can Global Leaders and Civil Society Stem Authoritarian...
As policymakers and global health leaders gathered for the Global COVID-19 Summit, the International Forum for Democratic Studies asked four experts from different regions of the world to comment on trends...
Forum Q&A: Lisa-Maria Neudert on the Road Ahead for Civil Society...
Dean Jackson of the International Forum for Democratic Studies spoke with Lisa-Maria Neudert about the landscape for civil society organizations combatting disinformation's impact on democracy.
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