Meet our visiting Scholars: Michael Katagaya
Digital Suppression and the Right to Political Participation: Exploring a Human Rights Accountability Framework for Democracy and Service Delivery in the Digital Electoral Environment
Democratic participation now increasingly depends on digital infrastructure — connectivity, platforms, information environments, and the civil society networks that monitor them. International human rights law has left that infrastructure under-theorised as a condition of political participation, carries no binding effect for the states that impose it, and states across Africa and beyond have learned to suppress it, with consequences that run past election day into the everyday accountability citizens exercise over public services. In this talk, we explore how human rights accountability frameworks must be redesigned to capture, measure, and remedy state-directed digital suppression as a violation of the right to political participation, and what Africa's electoral experience contributes to building them.
Light lunch will be served.
