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Every phone, laptop and charger we upgrade eventually becomes waste. Where does it go?
Launching next week: our E-Waste Data Brief, with a DIID Dialogue on Africa’s e-waste problem.
Friday, 23 October, 2:00pm WAT
Register: tinyurl.com/EWasteDialogue
From e-waste imports to informal recycling, how can Africa make digital growth more sustainable? 🌍♻️
Unsafe handling of E-waste can expose people and the environment to hazardous substances.
At the next DIID Dialogues, we explore how Africa is responding to the challenge.
📅 23 October 2026 | 🕑 2:00 PM WAT
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/EWasteDialogue
We were represented by Aishat Omolade Lawal, our Program and Policy associate, at the Gender and Inclusion Summit 2026 (GS-26), organised by the Policy Innovation Center in Abuja, Nigeria on the 9th of September 2026,
Read our full recap here: diidinitiative.org/from-conv…
Where do your old gadgets end up? 📱
Unsafe e-waste disposal exposes workers and communities to hazardous substances.
Join the next DIID Dialogues: Africa's E-waste
📅 23 Oct | 🕑 2PM WAT 🔗 tinyurl.com/EWasteDialogue
#DIIDDialogues #EWaste
At #FIFAfrica26, organized by @cipesaug, our ED @adeborois_ shared why a ban alone will not keep children safe, and what policymakers can do instead.
Read the full recap here: diidinitiative.org/social-me…
#ChildOnlineSafety #DigitalRights
Whose words trained the AI tools Nigerians use daily? Nigerian newsrooms say theirs. The FCCPC is now investigating Meta, Google, X and AI firms over scraping journalism without consent or pay.
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Africa generated about 2 billion kg of e-waste in 2022. Where do our discarded phones, laptops and gadgets end up?
Join Njoki Kamau, Aysha Lotter & Oluwadunsin Ogunsemoyin at DIID Dialogues on 23 October. Moderated by Aishat Omolade Lawal.
Register: tinyurl.com/EWasteDialogue
DIID is live at #FIFAfrica26!
Today, our own @adeborois_ speaks on "Children, AI, and the Age Debate in Africa," alongside panelists from Meta's Oversight Board, FemTech Law Initiative and more.
Catch it at the Main Ballroom, 3:45 PM (GMT+4).
@cipesaug
#ChildonlineSafety
Were you at last week's DIID Dialogue? This recap is for you.
Missed it? This recap is also for you.
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DIID is at #FIFAfrica26, organized by @cipesaug, in Mauritius (28 Sept–1 Oct). We're represented by Adeboro Odunlami, who joins the panel "Children, AI, and the Age Debate in Africa" on 30 Sept.
At the forum? Come find us. If not, follow along for updates.
#DigitalRights
In the next 2 hours, we are discussing an important question:
How do we build secure and resilient public digital infrastructure in Nigeria?
Register here: tinyurl.com/diiddialogues
See you there. 👋
Chris Nwobi of Zend Cybersecurity Threat Labs joins us tomorrow as we discuss building secure and resilient public digital infrastructure in Nigeria.
Link to register: tinyurl.com/diiddialogues
Anthony Sule of Resilience Technologies joins us tomorrow as we discuss the security and resilience of public digital infrastructure in Nigeria.
Link to register: tinyurl.com/diiddialogues
Gambling, casino and pornographic content have appeared on multiple Nigerian Government websites lately, raising questions about the infrastructure security of our public digital infrastructure.
We discuss this at DIID dialogues tomorrow.
tinyurl.com/diiddialogues
ALT Who Is Hacking Nigerian Government Websites? In recent months, gambling, casino and pornographic content have appeared on multiple Nigerian government websites, raising broader questions about the security and resilience of our public digital infrastructure. On 22 September, we take this conversation Beyond the Website at DIID Dialogues. Join Anthony Sule of Resilience Technologies and Chris (Zugo) Nwobi of Zend Cybersecurity Threat Labs, moderated by Oluwadunsin Ogunsemoyin of DIID, as we explore what secure and resilient digital public infrastructure should look like in Nigeria. 2:00 PM WAT | 22 September 2026 Registration Link in caption.
This year, gambling, casino and pornographic content have appeared on multiple Nigerian government websites, raising questions about the security of Nigeria’s public digital infrastructure.
We explore this at DIID Dialogues, 22 Sept.
Register: tinyurl.com/diiddialogues
I found multiple casino and gambling articles hosted directly on @inecnigeria official website.
I am not talking about INEC linking to casino websites. These are actual gambling pages published under inecnigeria dot org.
For example:
inecnigeria. org/discover-the-excitement-of-instant-casino-france/
I identified about 28 gambling/casino pages hosted on the official INEC website.
Most of the clearest cluster was published under the WordPress author name “Ajuma Achor.”
I checked further and found that a person with the same name, Ajuma Achor, worked with Interra Networks, a technology vendor that has worked on INEC’s website. Her LinkedIn appears to indicate that she left Interra some years ago.
That raises two worrying possibilities:
Either INEC’s website has been compromised for a long time without anyone noticing, possibly through an old or compromised publishing account;
or someone with access to INEC’s website is abusing that access to publish casino content, potentially as paid SEO placements.
I don't know which one exactly.
But either scenario is frightening.
Because if someone can quietly publish dozens of casino pages on INEC’s official website, then the bigger question is: what stops that same access from being used on election day to publish false information, fake results or a misleading announcement capable of causing chaos across the country?
This needs more than deleting the casino pages. INEC needs to determine who has publishing access, how these pages got there, and whether that access still exists.
@channelstv @seunonigbinde @YIAGA @MobilePunch @thecableng @SaharaReporters @vanguardngrnews
"Bullying is the biggest issue children face online in Africa. But it is the least legislated.... Politicians have covered themselves when it comes to harassment... but it does not touch children."
@Dalithso
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"African countries should not just make laws... but we should also talk about implementation." -Nneamaka Orji.
Watch the excerpt, and read the full recap here: 👇
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