Technology is reshaping civic space by providing new tools and spaces to exercise the freedoms of expression, association, and peaceful assembly. But these same tools also provide new opportunities for governments and private actors to increase surveillance and restrict rights.
ICNL works closely with our global network of partners to develop international, regional, and national legal standards to ensure that new technologies protect basic freedoms and allow civil society to flourish. ICNL also builds the capacity of civil society to better understand how emerging tech works and ways new tech may affect civic freedoms. Increasing their tech fluency enables our partners to work with technologists and governments to craft polices and products that protect fundamental freedoms.