Welcome and thanks for joining us for today’s tweet chat on archiving for human rights with Ayanda K of (@_Videre) and @ng_yvonne of (@witnessorg).

Before we proceed, we would like to briefly introduce Ayanda and Yvonne.

#HumanRightsArchiving Ayanda serves as an Archiving Coordinator for VIDERE. She has over a decade of experience in cataloguing, storing & preserving visual human rights documentation. Additionally, she has collaborated with various stakeholders to ensure human rights documentation has impact both in..

In addition to the far-reaching economic impacts, internet shutdowns in #Africa limit people’s ability to express themselves freely, activists/journalists struggle to upload photos/videos documenting abuse and students are cut off from their lessons.

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https://twitter.com/agenceecofin/status/1217063335809748993

While governments, with the cooperation of telcos, may try to justify shutdowns in the name of “public safety” or other reasons, they are increasingly using it as a tactic to control flow of information, their people and to silence dissent.