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This section features articles that are meant to inform readers about perspectives, issues and debates around certain topics considered relevant within the ICT arena, as well as highlights about all those activities and themes that matter to the APC network and the spaces we engage in.

New GenderIT.org edition shares feminist perspectives on technology-facilitated gender-based violence 26 August 2023 By GenderIT.org

This edition focuses on research conducted as part of the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) initiative that showcases the interconnections of online gender-based violence with different countries' local contexts and everyday realities.

APC at the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum 25 August 2023 By APCNews

The Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (AprIGF) is one of the key regional initiatives on internet governance. This year will be a hybrid event in Brisbane, Australia, from 28 to 31 August. APC staff and members are hosting and involved in key sessions.

Did the AI train derail?
Did the AI train derail? 24 August 2023 By Carlos Afonso

In the latest edition of poliTICS, a publication produced by APC member Insituto Nupef, Carlos Afonso explores the "curious contradiction" between the fear of an AI-caused extinction and the uncontainable desire to make fame and money from its spectacular and frightening advances.

Farewell to one of the indispensable ones: Scott Weikart
Farewell to one of the indispensable ones: Scott Weikart 23 August 2023 By APCNews

With heavy hearts, we learned this week that Scott Weikart, one of the indispensable ones who made the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) possible, has passed away.

Photo essay: Enabling Nigerian communities to see the soot around them
Photo essay: Enabling Nigerian communities to see the soot around them 22 August 2023 By Maja Romano

MAJI in Nigeria recently co-hosted an #EcoThursday Twitter discussion on deploying open data and low-cost technologies for monitoring air pollution and creating evidence-based advocacy. This photo essay captures their journey in holding oil polluters accountable.

New GenderIT.org edition explores algorithmic anxieties and feminist futures in the Middle East and North Africa
New GenderIT.org edition explores algorithmic anxieties and feminist futures in the Middle East and North Africa 21 August 2023 By GenderIT.org

This edition of GenderIT.org came together at a time of daily breaking news around artificial intelligence and the risks it poses. In the MENA region, these problems are compounded with a litany of daily struggles, the most devastating of these being occupation, war, conflict and displacement.

DRAPAC23: “The global North has an oversized responsibility for digital technology’s harms and the damage is absorbed by the global South”
DRAPAC23: “The global North has an oversized responsibility for digital technology’s harms and the damage is absorbed by the global South” 04 August 2023 By Maja Romano

This year APC member EngageMedia organised DRAPAC23, the Digital Rights Asia-Pacific Assembly, on emerging trends of digital technologies and building a rights-respecting digital future in Asia-Pacific. We interviewed EngageMedia on why this Assembly was so important for the region right now.

More questions than answers: Collectively shaping a Feminist Principle of the Internet on the environment
More questions than answers: Collectively shaping a Feminist Principle of the Internet on the environment 04 August 2023 By Jennifer Radloff

The Disco-tech session at the Digital Rights Asia-Pacific Assembly (DRAPAC23) focused on supporting environmental sustainability and justice in Asia. We explore the participants' interventions to help develop a Feminist Principle of the Internet on the environment.

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