APC Talk

This section is a space where APC's staff, members and readers can open up conversations on topics that are of interest for the ICT community. It is a space where authors get to be themselves – sometimes to express opinions and challenge the readers on issues and topics that are close to them, sometimes to share their personal experience on an event or a current debate. The views expressed in this section do not necessarily reflect the views of APC or its network, but that does not make them any less valuable.

IT for Change: "Community broadband networks are an urgent advocacy issue in developing countries" 17 August 2015 Parminder Jeet Singh (IT for Change)

What if we found cost-effective ways to expand accessibility, achieve reliability, and save precious public money providing full quality internet for all? By trying to find practical ways to overcome the digital divide, each day more and more community leaders pursue local control of connectivity...

APC and the Cuban internet 17 August 2015 Laredcubana

Cuba’s UUCP connection was to the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) in Canada. APC provided connections for many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and that attracted the attention of politicians, who saw NGOs as subversive.

Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet: "It’s not easy to make the general public understand how surveillance affects them"
Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet: "It’s not easy to make the general public understand how surveillance affects them" 16 August 2015 APC

Since early 2015, the Local Action to Secure Internet Rights (LASIR) project has focused on empowering national and local actors in their defence of human rights on the internet, in countries as diverse as South Korea, Brazil, the Philippines, India, Jordan, Uganda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bangla...

Participation in the gigX and APrIGF in Macau: Learning and experience
Participation in the gigX and APrIGF in Macau: Learning and experience 12 August 2015 Sajia Afreen Smita

As the representative of Take Back the Tech! Bangladesh I took the opportunity to give a presentation on the topic- ‘Consent, autonomy and agency: Online violence’ from a Bangladeshi perspective. Case studies of online violence in Bangladesh, government initiatives, campaigns of Take Back the...

Nomination to GEM-TECH Awards 2015 closes today!
Nomination to GEM-TECH Awards 2015 closes today! 30 July 2015 APC

This is the second edition of the annual joint ITU and UN Women Award to celebrate outstanding people and entities who champion gender equality in the field of ICTs. In 2014, APC’s “Take Back the Tech!

The Istanbul Convention brings the most complex view on the issue of violence against women
The Istanbul Convention brings the most complex view on the issue of violence against women 20 July 2015 Michaela Svatošová

The Istanbul Convention is a legal document that was presented by the Council of Europe in 2011.

Storify: More Imagine a Feminist Internet!
Storify: More Imagine a Feminist Internet! 17 July 2015 Flavia Fascendini

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Ladder of Hierarchy: how gender matters in internet governance
Ladder of Hierarchy: how gender matters in internet governance 17 July 2015 Pinda Phisitbutra

In the Gender and Internet Governance Exchange (gigX) workshop last month, we, participants from different countries — Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia, were asked to arrange these words on a “ladder of hierarchy”. Ladder one Married man Unmarried...

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