NEW YORK (AL for APCNews) – “The same
rights that people have offline must also be protected online,” says an
unprecedented resolution approved recently by the Human Rights
Council. More
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BUENOS AIRES (Dafne Sabanes Plou for
APC) – APC starts a new project “End violence: women's rights and
safety online” based on experience and knowledge gathered in past
years. What shows, and organisations providing support services to
victims of violence have indicated, is that for evidence-building to be
effective, a better system for documenting technology-related
violations is needed. More
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PERGAMINO (FF for APCNews) – In the
context of APC's Action Research Network project, CIPESA developed a
series of reports as a result of their research in open government data
in Uganda, which shows the increasing demand for transparency and
accountability through the use of ICT, as well as the existence of
great expectations of the benefits that OGD could bring to the country.
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CANADA (Lisa Cyr and Mallory Knodel
for APCNews) – From June 28th to July 1st 2012, grassroots
organisations from the US, Canada and Mexico, came together at the
Allied Media Conference in Detroit, Michigan to “cultivate strategies
for a more just and creative world.” More >
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