Paradigm Initiative

Recap: LIFE Legacy Town Hall, Ghana

In February 2026, Paradigm Initiative hosted a Town Hall Meeting with its Life skills, ICTs, Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship (LIFE) Legacy stakeholders in Ghana. We met with the communities that host our LIFE Legacy programmes, not just to present progress, but to listen and discuss what has changed, what is working, and what still needs attention.

Relive photo highlights from the meeting.

Les enseignants de l'Afrique francophone vont vivre un grand changement… et celui-ci est sur le point d'arriver.

Les 28 et 29 avril 2026, nous réunirons des enseignants, des coordinateurs TIC et des responsables de l'éducation pour une formation pratique sur l'intelligence artificielle et les TIC en classe.

Alors que les salles de classe évoluent rapidement, tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance de suivre le rythme. Si vous vous demandez comment utiliser l'IA dans l'enseignement ou comment le faire en toute sécurité, ne manquez pas cette session.

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Girls in ICT Day: Protecting Every Girl, Leaving No One Behind

Paradigm Initiative (PIN) celebrates International Girls in ICT Day 2026 under the theme “AI for Development: Girls Shaping the Digital Future”. This is pertinent for Africa, as the fastest-growing continent is expected to host over 830 million youths by 2050. The region’s adolescent girls will also represent one-third of the world’s adolescent girls by 2050.

In the following article, Chiti Mutati Mbizule, PIN Programmes Officer for the Southern African region leans on PIN’s digital skills training work across the continent, findings from our latest report on digital rights and inclusion across 29 African countries, Londa, as well as our survivor-led study on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), ‘Clicks That Hurt’, to explore the strides made in empowering and protecting girls in ICT, measured against key World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) action lines.

Read full article: https://paradigmhq.org/girls-in-ict-day-protecting-every-girl-leaving-no-one-behind/

Happening today: Global South Alliance Learning Call on Digital Public Infrastructure

Today, Bridgette Ndlovu, Partnerships and Egagements Officer at Paradigm Initiative, joins the Global South Alliance Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) working group’s quarterly learning call on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI).

Set to kick off at 12 noon UTC (1PM GMT+1), the call will be led by Thomas Linder from Research ICT Africa, Patricia Ainembabazi from CIPESA, and Bridgette Ndlovu from Paradigm Initiative.

The session will explore how DPI is understood by different stakeholders across Africa, including government, civil society organisations (CSOs), the private sector, technical communities, and academia. It will also explore regional nuances, emerging practices, and key debates shaping DPI implementation and governance on the continent.

Tout le monde apprend. Et vous ?

Des enseignants de toute l'Afrique francophone se connecteront les 28 et 29 avril 2026 pour participer à notre atelier destiné aux enseignants en TIC.

Pendant deux jours, les enseignants exploreront comment intégrer les outils d'IA dans leur enseignement quotidien, aborderont les questions de sécurité numérique et d'éthique en classe, et échangeront avec leurs pairs sur les défis concrets et les solutions réelles.

Aucune compétence technique avancée n'est requise. Il suffit d'être curieux et d'avoir envie d'apprendre.
Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant : https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xK19t81GSP6hGm7Y3odz5w

𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐅𝟐𝟔 - 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐅𝟐𝟔

Our latest study shows how information pollution is wreaking havoc in Côte D’Ivoire, Benin, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon. In these countries, ethnic tensions and gender inequalities are being dangerously fanned by the flood of false content.

Titled Africa Facing Down Disinformation, the expert-based research commissioned by PIN with support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and released at the 2026 Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF26) assesses various countermeasures to disinformation, noting that state measures such as internet shutdowns and mass surveillance are not compliant with international human rights standards.

Check out the full report here: https://paradigmhq.org/report/africa-facing-down-disinformation/

𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐅𝟐𝟔 - 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐅𝟐𝟔

Merci | Thank You |

Nous souhaitons simplement prendre un moment pour exprimer notre profonde gratitude à toutes celles et ceux qui ont fait de la 13ᵉ édition du Forum sur les droits et l’inclusion numériques (DRIF26) ce qu’elle a été.

Aux intervenants, sponsors, participants, partenaires, bénévoles, et à chaque personne qui s’est présentée, a posé des questions, a partagé des idées et a créé des liens : merci pour votre énergie, votre sincérité et votre engagement en faveur de la promotion des droits numériques et de l’inclusion.

DRIF n’est jamais simplement un événement. C’est une communauté en mouvement, et vous en êtes au cœur.

Nous restons reconnaissants.
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Thank You | Merci |

We just want to pause and say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who made the 13th edition of the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF26) what it was.

To the speakers, sponsors, participants, partners, volunteers, and every single person who showed up, asked questions, shared insights, and built connections, thank you for the energy, the honesty, and the commitment to advancing digital rights and inclusion.

DRIF is never just an event. It’s a community in motion, and you are at the centre of it.

We remain grateful.