The Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica) is an annual multi-stakeholder event focused on protecting and promoting internet rights throughout Africa, as well as increasing collaboration between African tool developers and frontline defenders.
This landmark event convenes a spectrum of stakeholders from across the internet governance and digital rights arenas in Africa and beyond to deliberate on gaps, concerns, and opportunities for advancing privacy, free expression, inclusion, the free flow of information, civic participation, and innovation online.
On September 24-27, 2024, The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), in partnership with AfricTivistes, hosted the 11th edition of FIFAfrica in Dakar, Senegal.
OTF has supported many editions of this important community convening. For the most recent edition, we supported the Digital Resilience track which entailed a multilingual digital security help desk, digital security demonstrations, skills workshops, exhibitions, dialogue sessions on digital security tools and apps, as well as a localization sprint to explore language localization of open source tools in Wolof and French.
