Nigeria, March 23 -- As parts of its capacity building project, the pan-African digital rights group, Paradigm Initiative, held a digital rights workshop for rights advocates in Kano, Nigeria.

The workshop, which held on March 19 and 20, 2019, with support from Macarthur Foundation and Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), under its social and accountability project in Nigeria, had 50 participants in attendance.

The workshop looked at many important subjects around digital rights. Participants were introduced to topical issues around digital rights such as gender perspective to digital rights and the challenges women face online, tackling hate speech and fake news; navigating the grey areas while respecting rights t...