MONTEVIDEO (AL for APCNews) - On an improvised stage, locals
act out a play about an
African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her
skin. It's part of a community gathering to highlight violence against
women in a small sugar-plantation town a few miles from Cali. For eight
months, men and women of all ages attended workshops on gender and
technology as part of piloted trials of the Gender Evaluation
Methodology (GEM) in 24 government-sponsored telecentres. GEM exposed
not only the stereotypes and prejudice women must face, but also the
strengths that lie within women who least expected it. As a result, the
entire community has come together. More
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MONTEVIDEO (KAH for APCNews) -
At the United States Social Forum on
June 24 fifty politically progressive technologists came together for
the first US Progressive Techie Congress. The Congress emerged with a
statement applauded by other socially-responsible networks like the APC
as “a great set of principles”. More
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CALGARY (LC for APCNews) - Since
South Korea's conservative
president was sworn in in 2008, administrative control on internet
content has been getting progressively tighter in South Korea, a
country with the second most connected population on Earth. Progressive
groups criticise the government's “three cyber evils”: the cyber insult
law, the internet “real name” system and deep packet inspection to
monitor and control internet communication. More
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