apc.au

apc.au Ltd is digital media communications organisation founded in 1997 and based on the ideals that have become expressed in the Internet Rights Charter of the Association for Progressive Communications.

Within this framework, apc.au’s core objectives are:

1. To promote and provide services for the development, application and strategic use of, and community education in respect to online and digital media technologies;
2. To develop and provide online media services including advisory, production and research;
3. To assist the civil sector in the use of online media services and in the development and publication of network content, in areas of community interest including environment, social development, human rights and social justice;
4. To support online media initiatives through the Australasian and Asian/Pacific areas and promote open and equitable access to online media technologies particularly for the non-government sector and disadvantaged groups and for the development of strategic working communities.

apc.au produces computer mediated collaborative “events” for public space, providing production, performance, research and design expertise drawn from the information technology and cultural development sectors.

We are advocates for open content and flexible licensing models and are engaged in both the development of and sustained access to community owned communications and broadcast infrastructure.

apc.au sits on the steering committees of Open Spectrum Australia (sustaining community broadcast licensing on the digital spectrum), Home Lands (remote communications program for refugee youth) and the Arts Law Consortium (providing access to ICT rights issues to cultural development and arts workers).

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), including the internet.

In 1997 apc.au established the specialist IT services provider, Community Communications Online (c2o) and in 2001 it acquired the new media arts/research and development organisation, Toy Satellite. It also trades as and manages Secession Records, an independent and artist run publishing label.

In 2008, apc.au decommissioned c2o and began the process of archiving Toy Satellite projects, a decade of Australian new media art.

APC member since 1997

Topic areas of expertise:

• Access to information,
• Environment & ICTs,
• Free software,
• Freedom of expression,
• ICT for development,
• ICT policy,
• Internet governance,
• Low-cost technology,
• Media & ICTs,
• Open access,
• Strategic use of the internet