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APC staff and members will be in Sharm
El-Sheikh, Egypt at the fourth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum
from November 15-18. We'll be running two workshops and launching two
publications. Here's a quick video review of our
activities or you can:
Read a brief
from APC on the state of play at the Fourth Internet Governance Forum
Or download
the brief (five pages):
Download
the APC schedule (one page).
JOHANNESBURG (APC for APC/Hivos) – A new
report that reveals how vulnerable the internet as we know it is, has
just been published by two global civil society
organisations. The annual report, called Global Information
Society Watch was released today by the Association for Progressive
Communications and Dutch-funder Hivos. GISWatch 2009 is entitled Access
to online information and knowledge – advancing human rights and
democracy. More
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MONTEVIDEO (APC for APCNews) - In 2003, APC
launched our first ICT policy handbook “for beginners” to critical
acclaim. ICT policy was a relatively new area and very few really
understood what was actually involved. The APC handbook was the first
comprehensive guide for non-technicians. Now APC has published an
entirely rewritten second edition free and online for anyone to
download. More >>
Since the inception of the IGF, the Council
of Europe, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
and APC have been working on a joint initiative on public participation
in internet governance. Now a draft code of good practice on
transparency, information and participation in internet governance is
ready for comment!
Read
the background
Comment
on the code
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