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The Global Network Initiative: Past, Present, and Future

December 20, 2018

By Leslie Harris How did GNI Start? GNI is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Those of... Read more >

Celebrating 10 Years of Raising the Voice of Freedom of Expression, by Patrik Hiselius

December 13, 2018

The continuous need to act in the present My heaviest mail folder is named “New... Read more >

Innovation in Business and Human Rights: The Role of GNI, by Dunstan Allison-Hope

December 10, 2018

When asked to write this blog about the place of the GNI in the business... Read more >

Over-estimating Technological Solutions and Underestimating the Political Moment? by Guy Berger

December 5, 2018

We all, and especially the private sector, should appreciate the uniqueness of the Global Network... Read more >

The Multistakeholder Global Network Initiative: Watch the Story Unfold, by Executive Director Judith Lichtenberg

November 26, 2018

Watch the Ten-Year Anniversary Video on Youtube. Pictured: Judith at the 2017 GNI Learning Forum... Read more >

Why Joining GNI is Part of Paradigm Initiative’s Success Story

November 2, 2018

By ’Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative The increasingly virulent digital rights landscape in Africa,... Read more >

GNI: A Journey of Trust and Making Common Cause

October 16, 2018

After two-plus years of intensive negotiation, GNI was launched in October... Read more >

Getting Specific About Transparency, Privacy, and Free Expression Online

November 5, 2014

Amid the contentious global debates about privacy and surveillance since the Snowden revelations, few proposed reforms have attracted more consensus... Read more >

GNI Responds to GCHQ in the Financial Times

November 5, 2014

In reaction to the Financial Times op-ed by Richard Hannigan, Director of GCHQ, GNI Board Chair Mark Stephens wrote this letter to the editor, "Need... Read more >

Op-Ed: Privacy Since Snowden

June 18, 2014

A year has passed since the American former intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden began revealing the massive scope of Internet surveillance by... Read more >

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