JOHANNESBURG (APC for APCNews) - On
January 18th, APC joined dozens of sites and organisations in
protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act
(PIPA) by blacking out. These two bills, if passed, represent an
unprecedented threat to the open internet as we know it, with
impacts felt far beyond the borders of the United States. More >
WELLINGTON (Joy Liddicoat for APC) -
APC responds to Vint Cerf’s recent column, “Access to the Internet
is Not a Human Right”, with an open letter supporting his challenge to
the technical community and engineers to put human rights at the
forefront of internet design. More >
MONTEVIDEO (LC for APCNews) - The
relationship between ICTs and the environment is multifaceted. On the
one hand, APC is looking into how ICTs are being used to help the
environment, while on the other we are looking at policies for dealing
with emerging problems such as e-waste and climate change. APC
recently co-hosted a workshop in partnership with the University of
Manchester to discuss how ICTs can be used to help mitigate climate
change and help communities better adapt to their ever-changing
environment. APC's GreeningIT project takes a look at the green and not
so green side of ICTs to find out how they can be used more sustainably
by ICT practitioners, civil society, governments and service
providers.
About the project
GreeningIT
directory (a directory of organisations and initiatives working on
greeningIT issues)
Policy research and articles
on e-waste
About
the ICTs, Climate chante and development workshop
MONTEVIDEO (GenderIT.org for APC) - “A
creative and revolutionary movement”, says APC’s women programme
coordinator, Jac sm Kee, about the Take Back The Tech! campaign. In
this editorial by GenderIT.org, it becomes evident that the
campaign is already a global movement. More >
MONTEVIDEO (GenderIT.org for APC) -
The Take Back The Tech! campaign, run by APC WNSP, launched
an interactive mapping platform which collected more than one hundred
stories about gender violence online or through mobile phones. In this
article by GenderIT.org, Sonia Randhawa outlines some of the
tendencies that stand out when analising the collected information. More
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