The digital age has transformed the content production landscape, making creating, distributing, and accessing information easier than ever. While this shift has ushered in unprecedented opportunities for innovation and inclusion, it has also introduced significant threats and risks that require collective effort to address.
Freedom of expression
MISA Zimbabwe Analysis of the Broadcasting Services Amendment Bill
It provides that the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) regulates and manages the broadcasting service bands for sustenance rather than control, thereby aligning it with constitutional principles and international best practices. Its emphasis on enhancing transparency, fostering inclusivity, and promoting local content is commendable.
Zimbabwe should stay the course in reducing media freedom violations
Zimbabwe moved 10 places from 126 in 2023 to 116 in 2024 in Reporters Without Borders’s World Press Freedom Index rankings. This came on the backdrop of reductions in media freedom violations last year, culminating in an improved media operating environment during Zimbabwe’s 2023 election season.
MISA Communiqué on the All Africa Judges and Jurists Summit
To strengthen African judiciaries’ engagement with emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, and leverage on them to advance the rule of law and access to justice.
2024 Conference Resolutions on AI Regulation in the Age of Information Disorders
Progress made through the completion of the national artificial intelligence (AI) policy framework as part of efforts to accelerate digital transformation in Zimbabwe.
MISA engages ACHPR on indiscriminate attacks on Mozambican journalists
In his letter to Commissioner Topsy-Sonoo, MISA Regional Chairperson Golden Maunganidze said the organisation was concerned the government had (at the time of writing of this communique) neither censored nor condemned the attacks on the journalists.
Reflections on the Spaces of Solidarity (SoS) Conference Agenda
The strides we have made during our first three years have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the following years.
Submissions to the All Africa Judges and Jurists Summit, Nairobi, Kenya, 18 September 2024
In a historic development, the AJJF brought judges and jurists from all continental regions to Nairobi, Kenya, from September 17th to 19th, 2014, as a holistic approach to strengthening the judiciary in an ever-evolving environment.
New era of improved connectivity and access to information as Starlink deploys in Zimbabwe
MISA Zimbabwe hopes that this development will provide internet access to rural and remote communities that conventional internet service providers have traditionally marginalised.
Policy Brief: Addressing The Gaps In The Data Protection, Privacy And Surveillance Legislation (Now Available!)
The main relevant pieces of legislation regarding surveillance are the Interception of Communications Act [Chapter 11:20] and the Postal and Telecommunications Act. The supposed principal purpose of these pieces of legislation is to give effect to various fundamental rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No.20) Act, 2013, including the right to privacy, freedom of expression, and access to information.