Call for Proposals: CIPESA Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 20, 2025

The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) invites events to submit session proposals to the 2025 version of the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica25). Successful submissions will assist to form the agenda of the occasion, which is about to assemble policymakers, regulators, human rights defenders, journalists, lecturers, personal sector gamers, international data intermediaries, bloggers, and builders.

FIFAfrica25 is a number one platform for shaping digital rights, inclusion, and governance conversations. This yr, the Forum is headed to Windhoek, Namibia, a beacon of press freedom, gender fairness, and progressive jurisprudence, and can happen on September 24–26, 2025.

As part of the registration, they invite session proposals, together with panel discussions, lightning talks, exhibitions, and abilities workshops, to form the FIFAfrica25 agenda.

Tracks of Interest

They encourage proposals which are in line with the next tracks (with some overlap of matters between tracks):

• Digital Inclusion: (Topics can embody – Minority communities, language, individuals with disabilities, girls, youngsters, gig employees, and so forth.)
• Digital Resilience and Safety: (Topics can embody – Security instruments upskilling, sensible abilities classes, open supply software program, localisation, and so forth.) 
• Freedom of Expression & Access to Information: (Topics can embody – on-line rights and freedoms, public accountability.)
• Platform Accountability (Tech governance issues and content material moderation)
• Implications of AI: (Topics can embody – Regulatory gaps, coverage readiness, utilization, localisation, content material regulation.)
• Digital Economy: (Topics can embody – digital transformation, digital commerce, knowledge sovereignty, cross-border knowledge flows, coverage alignment, knowledge privateness)
• Digital Democracy: (Topics can embody – Internet shutdowns, knowledge privateness, digital surveillance, civic tech, digital public infrastructure)

Funding

• Limited funding is on the market to help attendance (journey and/or lodging) for profitable functions.

Eligibility

Open to:

• Civil society organisations
• Independent researchers and lecturers
• Journalists and media practitioners
• Policy-makers and authorities actors
• Regional and worldwide organisations
• Private sector actors

Application

To submit your session proposal or request occasion help, full the FIFAfrica25 Proposal Submission Form by June 20, 2025.

For extra data, go to CIPESA.