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MONTEVIDEO (APC for APCNews) - In late 2003
APC gathered in Colombia to define our strategic priorities for the
following five years. Like most good APC meetings, the event mixed
politics with capacity building, debate and dialogue with dancing, and
it was the largest meeting in our history at the time. Looking back
over this period in earnest is quite intimidating. We hope that the APC
Progress Report for 2004 to 2008 will give you some idea of those
challenges and gives us an opportunity to recognise why APC is what it
is and why we do what we do – making the world a better place by
helping people gain the access, the skills, and the rights they need to
work together online. More
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MONTEVIDEO (APC for APCNews) - As a
consequence of our capacity-building work with hundreds of
organisations and people from the women’s movement, we believe that we
have helped to transform how the women’s movement thinks about
technology and the internet, and that their confidence has been built
to use technology more and more creatively to further women’s rights.
“In the last five years, we have worked with many people and
organisations,” says women’s programme coordinator Chat Garcia Ramilo.
“What we have discovered is that this overall process of capacity
building takes a long time, but if we persist long enough, we find out
what changes it brings about.” More
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MONTEVIDEO (APC for APCNews) - The Internet
Governance Forum (IGF) was set up in 2006 as a kind of “pressure relief
valve” for some of the most controversial international discussions on
the future of the internet. The IGF provides a space where this type of
dialogue, between adversarial opponents, can really move towards
deepening understanding and ultimately influencing decision makers to
make better internet policy for a more just world. Learning to listen
to traditional adversaries, understand different perspectives and look
for common solutions to complex problems, without losing sight of
closely held values and principles, has not come easily to an
international rights-based NGO with a broad activist membership like
APC. We explore our role in the creation and development of the IGF and
its agenda. More >>
MONTEVIDEO (APC for APCNews) - “With GEM I
began to appreciate why sometimes the women that are part of our
community resist the empowerment process. I used to be annoyed but now
I understand that this is the product of years of conditioning and it
will take some effort to reverse the trend. GEM helps you see the
situation for what it is, so you can optimise your resources where you
can make the maximum impact in creating change,” John Dada has been a
GEM user since 2007 in rural Nigeria. GEM is an evaluation tool for
determining whether ICTs are really improving or worsening women’s
lives and for promoting positive change. GEM has been developed from
the ground up, and has involved the collaboration of hundreds of
community-based organisations and individuals since its first design in
2002. More
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APC's 2004 – 2008 Progress Report
We wish to thank the thousands of people and
organisations with whom we have come into contact and worked together
over the last five years for positive social change. You will find many
of them featured in the report which you can now download in English
and next month in French and Spanish.
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