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GNI Hits 100 Members: Strength in Numbers

May 7, 2024

This remarkable milestone sends a powerful signal about the enduring strength of multistakeholder technology governance.... Read more >

The Global Human Rights Implications of Canada’s Online Harms Act

April 18, 2024

Canada’s approach will inevitably contribute to a global precedent that can either safeguard or violate human... Read more >

Building Common Infrastructure for Meaningful Tech Transparency

February 22, 2024

Tech transparency is an emerging ecosystem that requires the development of long-lasting infrastructure, including the ACT’s new Transparency... Read more >

Ensuring Digital Services Act Audits Deliver on Their Promise

February 19, 2024

The DSA seeks to hold online platforms accountable by identifying and mitigating possible societal risks from their products.... Read more >

Civic Space Under Pressure: Three Reasons Why Kazakhstan’s Recent Publication of a Foreign Funding Register is Alarming

December 14, 2023

On 2023, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Finance published a list of entities that receive funding from foreign sources. This violates constitutional and... Read more >

Interview with GNI Executive Director Jason Pielemeier

September 25, 2023

GNI’s 2022 Annual Report featured an exclusive interview with our new Executive Director Jason... Read more >

Unpacking “Systemic Risk” Under the EU’s Digital Service Act

July 19, 2023

Many of the world’s largest online platforms are conducting a first-ever assessment of “systemic risks", as part of the Digital Services Act... Read more >

Peeking Behind The Curtain: Perspectives on RightsCon 2023

July 5, 2023

Access Now has provided RightsCon as a forum to discuss continuing and emerging complex digital rights issues since... Read more >

Taking an Ecosystem-wide Approach to Human Rights Due Diligence in the Technology Sector

January 9, 2023

Working closely with Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), GNI developed a tool that we hope will further human rights due diligence (HRDD)... Read more >

The Right Way to Regulate Digital Harms

January 8, 2021

In the Op-Ed “The Right Way to Regulate Digital Harms” published by Project Syndicate on... Read more >

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