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CALGARY (LC for APCNews) - The telecoms
situation in Benin is unique. The array of mobile telephone enterprises
established during Mathieu Kérékou’s regime has resulted in the average
Beninese owning three, four, or even five SIM cards for their daily
communication needs. Facilitated by corruption and skyrocketing prices,
it was not until the arrival to power of the new president Yayi Boni in
2006 that reform in this sector began. Despite the current progress and
lower prices, networks remain segregated and there is still much to be
done in relation to ICTs and the standardisation of the telecom sector
in a legislative and regulatory environment that is open to investment.
APC investigates to find out more
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JOHANNESBURG (Chakula for APCNews) - Since
the APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor started in 2001, significant inroads
into raising the profile of the need for progressive ICT policy
approaches in Africa have been made. The need for a portal like the
Africa ICT Policy Monitor that collects and organises news and
resources on a vast array of issues has diminished, but APC’s policy
programme’s Africa wing will continue to report on issues of strategic
importance through Chakula, a periodic newsletter. More
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MONTEVIDEO (AL for APCNews) APC and the
Latin American Association for Educational Radio (ALER) have launched
an audio version of the APC Charter on internet rights in Spanish,
available on the web in the form of podcasts. More
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CALGARY (LC for APCNews) - May First/People
Link, a New York collective, has been hosting websites and providing
technology solutions and support to the city’s non-profits since the
late ’90s. They have doubled in size since 2005 to about 250 members –
without government or foundation funding. During the US Social Forum
2007 they provided all the technology for the event and are in the
middle of planning for the next USSF. Find out more about APC’s newest
member. More
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