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- 15 Mar 2019
Sign Digital Rights Bill Now, Paradigm Initiative Tells Buhari
Paradigm Initiative, an advocacy group, is currently mobilising Nigerians to mount pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, sign the Digital Rights and Freedom Bill into law…
- 19 Jun 2025
Bridging the Digital Divide: Over 700 Young Africans Empowered by Paradigm Initiative
Paradigm Initiative (PIN), a leading digital rights and inclusion nonprofit, has revealed in its 2024 Annual Impact Report that over 707 young individuals across 11 African countries have been…
- 6 Nov 2019
Paradigm Initiative Opens Learning Lab for Digital Rights and Inclusion
Paradigm Initiative has said that its first Digital Rights and Inclusion Learning Lab (DRILL) will begin operations in February 2020, and will operate from its new headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria.…
- 8 Jan 2019
Paradigm Initiative Urges NIMC to Suspend NIN Enforcement Activities
Paradigm Initiative, a digital rights advocacy group has called for the immediate suspension of the enforcement of National Identification Number (NIN), as announced by the National Identity…
- 7 Jul 2017
Paradigm Initiative Adds Two Members to Advisory Board
Paradigm Initiative of Nigeria (PIN) said that two new members have joined Advisory Board: Drs Jummai Zainab Umar-Ajijola and Aida Opoku-Mensah. “Dr Jummai Ummar-Ajijola brings to the Advisory Board…
- 18 Jul 2019
Paradigm Initiative Announces 2019 Digital Rights and Inclusion Media Fellows
Following an extensive selection process involving 261 applications from 39 countries, Paradigm Initiative is pleased to announce the 2019 Digital Rights and Inclusion Media Fellows. The…
- 8 Mar 2023
IWD: Paradigm Initiative calls for Digital Gender Equality for Women
Paradigm Initiative (PIN), a leading Pan African organisation advocating for digital rights and inclusion in the region, has called on African Governments to urgently initiate reforms aimed at…
- 7 Jun 2019
Paradigm Initiative Condemns Internet Disruption in Liberia
Paradigm Initiative has condemned the disruption of some popular social media platforms in Liberia such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram , which have been blocked and cannot be accessed in Liberia.…
- 17 Jan 2021
Paradigm Initiative Opens Portal for DRIF21 Registration
Paradigm Initiative has announced the opening of registration for the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum, 2021 starting on Monday, January 18th to Thursday, February 18th, 2021. DRIF21 will run from…
- 16 Jul 2020
All You Need to Know About Paradigm Initiative’s 3-day Digital Policy Workshop in Tanzania
Paradigm Initiative, a pan-African social enterprise working to advance digital rights and inclusion in Africa, has concluded a 3-day Digital Policy Workshop for Tanzanian Digital Rights Stakeholders…
- 15 Aug 2024
Paradigm Initiative Opens Application for Scriptwriters and Movie Producers for Fifth Short Film Production
Paradigm Initiative (PIN) has launched calls for the production of its fifth short film, aimed at amplifying digital rights and inclusion awareness in Africa. Paradigm Initiative, a non-profit…
- 2 May 2021
Paradigm Initiative Launches 'Ripoti' a Platform for African Citizens to Call Out Digital Rights Violations
Paradigm Initiative, PIN, has launched ‘Ripoti’, a groundbreaking platform geared towards the protection of digital rights of all African citizens. The platform’s aim is to fight the worrying trend…
- 30 Aug 2018
Paradigm Initiative condemns Introduction of Social Media Tax in Benin Republic
Paradigm Initiative has condemned the decision of the government of Benin Republic to introduce new levies on telecommunications operators with two taxes relating to the use of telecom services by…
- 27 Feb 2019
Paradigm Initiative Releases 2018 Annual Report, Demonstrates Impact
The social enterprise, Paradigm Initiative has released its 2018 annual report . The report provides insight into the work of the organisation, especially in how it lives up to its mission of…
- 9 Apr 2019
Paradigm Initiative Empowers Undergraduates with Free Programming Training
Paradigm Initiative has unveiled a tuition-free program to empower undergraduates with Python programming skills. The first edition of the training took off last Saturday with 36 trainees from…
- 13 Mar 2018
Paradigm Initiative Commends National Assembly for Passing Digital Rights Bill
Paradigm Initiative, a pan-African digital rights organization, has commended the two legislative houses for passing the important Digital Rights and Freedom Bill into law; this was contained in a…
- 9 Oct 2018
Paradigm Initiative to Host Digital Rights Workshop in Zambia
Paradigm Initiative will be hosting the Southern African Digital Rights Workshop in Lusaka, Zambia. The interactive workshop will take place over the course of two days from the 18th to 19th of…
- 15 Mar 2018
Paradigm Initiative Trains Over 600 Youth in ICT & Entrepreneurship Skills in 2017
Paradigm Initiative, a prominent social enterprise in the ICT sector, said that it has provided free training in ICT and entrepreneurship to 667 youth in 2017; this was contained in the 2017 Annual…
- 7 Mar 2019
Paradigm Initiative Commends Liberia, Tasks Nigeria, Ghana on Free Speech in the Digital Age
Paradigm Initiative has commended the gesture by the Liberian President, George Weah to sign into law, a Bill to decriminalize libel in Liberia through an Act to Amend the Liberian Codes Revised,…
- 4 Jun 2018
Paradigm Initiative, EiE Decry Suspension of Mohammed Wanigi by Niger Govt
Paradigm Initiative and Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria have condemned in strong terms the suspension of Baba Mohammed Wanigi, a school teacher with the Agaie Local Government in Niger State, in…
- 3 Feb 2017
Paradigm Initiative Makes FoI Request on Nigeria's "Eavesdropping" Satellites
The Paradigm Initiative on Thursday, in Abuja, submitted a letter to the Minister of Communications on the alleged eavesdropping capabilities of one of the two satellites that Nigeria plans to build…
- 12 Aug 2020
International Youth Day: Paradigm Initiative Calls for Empowerment of Underserved Youth
Paradigm Initiative, PIN, joins the world in commemorating International Youth Day under the theme - Youth Engagement for Global Action. The day was endorsed in 1999 by the General Assembly…
- 9 Jul 2019
Paradigm Initiative Calls Out Nigerian Immigration for Privacy Rights Violation
Paradigm Initiative, Pan-African Digital Rights organisation has written to the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service, demanding compensation for Ewohime Jeffrey Apkovweta, Nigerian…
- 20 Aug 2025
Paradigm Initiative Equips Prosecutors for the Digital Age of Crime
Paradigm Initiative is organising a capacity-building workshop to empower government prosecutors to prosecute cases committed through or facilitated by digital technologies, specifically examining…
- 21 Dec 2020
Paradigm Initiative Asks Court to Stop NCC from Disconnecting Subscribers
Paradigm Initiative has gone to court to restrain the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) from implementing the directive to disconnect all SIM cards that are not linked to the National…
- 29 Aug 2017
Nigerian Military's Surveillance of Social Media Alarming- Paradigm Initiative
The report that the Nigerian military has commenced monitoring social media activity of Nigerians has been in the news in the past few days. This development might not be unconnected to the recent…
- 7 Nov 2017
Paradigm Initiative Unhappy with Alleged Government’s Attempts to Clampdown on Online Newspapers
By peter Paradigm Initiative has expressed displeasure over alleged Federal Government’s secret attempts to block the domain names of several identified websites accused of threatening national…
- 11 Oct 2017
Paradigm Initiative Commends Imode Community On DiLiCe Project
By peter oluka Paradigm Initiative, a social enterprise that builds an ICT-enabled support system and advocates digital rights in order to improve livelihoods for under-served youth, has applauded…
- 17 Feb 2020
Paradigm Initiative Urges Ethiopian Government to Reconsider Hate Speech Law
Paradigm Initiative, a social enterprise Group has called out Ethiopian parliament for passing the much-contested proclamation on fake news and hate speech regulation with nearly 300 votes from the…
- 28 Nov 2017
Paradigm Initiative to Rejig Techtiary Forum
Gbenga Sesan, CEO of Paradigm Initiative organisers of Techtiary Forum has said that, they will wind down the activity of Techtiary Forum in order to scale up work with tertiary institutions in…