The 2021 was a year of reunion: we returned to face-to-face activities after a long period without seeing each other. Although we love virtuality and continue maintaining a hybrid way of working, we missed building communities outside digital spaces. In 2021, we primarily focused on thinking about and strengthening safer and more equitable digital areas […]
The press has reported a growing technologicalization of public security policies in recent years. Such a trend is particularly evident in the Triple Border Area, a strategic area due to one of the largest hydroelectric plants on the planet and a vital circulation of people, goods, and services. In this sense, the neighbouring countries have […]
The repeated instances of violence and threats from government institutions and fundamentalist or conservative groups towards TLGBIQ+ activist groups in Paraguay are taken to the digital world through organized online attacks, harassment, creation of fake profiles, extortion, theft and manipulation of information, and many other dynamics that violate their rights to appear and express themselves […]
In Paraguay, a woman who reported being a victim of sexual harassment has been forced into exile after civil and criminal prosecution. This November 1st, the Association of Technology, Education, Development, Research and Communication (TEDIC) and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) will file a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights […]
In order to develop the research on digital violence against women in Paraguay, it is necessary to develop some definitions. To date there is no global consensus on the definition of digital violence, however for this research we take the definition of digital gender violence developed by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), which expresses […]
Gig economy platforms are still a novelty in Paraguay. Such wonder poses challenges around the transparency and understanding of the market and nuanced understanding of situations faced by gig economy workers. This said, there has undoubtedly been an exponential growth of transport and delivery apps in 2020, coupled with a rise in unemployment rates due […]
Memoria de actividades 2020
The imminent modification announcements in WhatsApp’s terms of service (ToS) and privacy policies – without alternative measures and imposing deadlines to accept the changes or give up app functionalities – generated a coordinated response from civil society at the local, regional and international levels. From local to global In TEDIC, we tried to understand the […]
The exercise of sexting, which forms part of the right to freedom of expression and sexual and reproductive rights, is currently being carried out by many adults and adolescents. However, this exercise has led to the emergence of situations of violence such as the dissemination of non-consensual intimate images through mobile devices and the Internet, […]
*This article was originally published in the GNI website. The Global Network Initiative (GNI) is pleased to announce that the digital rights and civic technology organization TEDIC, based in Paraguay, has joined GNI’s civil society constituency. “We provide legal, technical, and political analyses around issues of Internet governance and develop and promote the use of […]
