Blog

The RIA blog

Blog: Making sense of digital identity: Symbols, substance and significance

Kristophina Shilongo

25 Jun 2021

Blog: Uganda: Are Digital IDs a Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?

Neema Iyer

23 Jun 2021

Blog: Why Digital ID Matters

Anri van der Spuy

21 Jun 2021

Blog: A Feminist Perspective on the Data Economy

Kristophina Shilongo

06 May 2021

Blog: Unpacking South Africa’s Draft National Data and Cloud Policy: Towards data justice or greater digital inequality?

Anri van der Spuy

29 Apr 2021

Blog: UNCTAD’s Global Review on COVID-19 and E-commerce

Anri van der Spuy · David Souter

31 Mar 2021

Blog: How do we protect children’s rights in a digital environment only available to some?

Anri van der Spuy

23 Feb 2021

Blog: The Great WhatsApp Migration: delving to the roots of a much bigger problem

Andrew Rens

26 Jan 2021

Blog: Q & A with Robin Mansell on her book, Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics

Anri van der Spuy

05 Nov 2020

Blog: Global Cyber Policy Dialogue for Southern Africa

Enrico Calandro

29 Oct 2020

Blog: Africa needs sustainable digitalisation: The link between tech, inequality and the environment

Shamira Ahmed

14 Oct 2020

Blog: Exploring data anonymisation and VPN adaptation in East Africa

Duncan Kinuthia

07 Oct 2020

Blog: Has South Africa’s COVID Alert contact tracing app been zero-rated?

Alex Comninos · David Johnson · Alison Gillwald

25 Sep 2020

Blog: #Closing the Gap: A week of bridging differences and inequalities in the cyber domain

Nils Berglund

27 Jul 2020

Blog: COVID-19 in Africa: A Datafied Society, Battling the Invisible Enemy

Oarabile Mudongo

10 Jul 2020

Blog: Waiting for POPIA

Andrew Rens · Gabriella Razzano · Anri van der Spuy

24 Jun 2020

Blog: Three ways the lockdown highlights the importance of localised digital solutions to “build back better”

Shamira Ahmed

25 May 2020

Blog: Should we nationalise data? In conversation with Ulises Mejias

Anri van der Spuy

07 Apr 2020