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Press Releases: Access to information

APC asserts `access´ to the internet & capacity-building are key to participative internet governance

3 September 2007
LONDON (APC) -

A new watchdog report monitoring promises made by governments and the United Nations to ensure that information technology is used to benefit millions of people, was launched in Geneva on May 22.

APC asserts `access´ to the internet & capacity-building are key to participative internet governance

3 September 2007
ATHENS (APC) -

A new watchdog report monitoring promises made by governments and the United Nations to ensure that information technology is used to benefit millions of people, was launched in Geneva on May 22.

APC updates groundbreaking "internet rights" charter

31 August 2007
MONTEVIDEO (ITeM) -

A new watchdog report monitoring promises made by governments and the United Nations to ensure that information technology is used to benefit millions of people, was launched in Geneva on May 22.

APC updates groundbreaking "internet rights" charter

6 November 2006
MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY () -

“The internet can only be a tool to empower the peoples of the world if a number of crucial rights* are recognised, protected and respected,” states Association for Progressive Communications (APC

APC asserts `access´ to the internet & capacity-building are key to participative internet governance

2 November 2006
ATHENS, GREECE () -

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC), a network of civil society organisations working with ICTs and the internet for social justice and sustainable development thinks that the IGF is

Looking beyond 2007, workshop on the future of SAT3

24 July 2006
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA () -

In July 2006, APC is to hold a workshop at Johannesburg, which will crystal-gaze into the future and discuss the future of SAT3, a crucial submarine cable on which hinges Africa's chances to get a smo

East Africa needs a fair entry-ticket to afford cyberspace: Easing Access to EASSy

8 March 2006
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA () -

Africa currently has to pay for some of the most expensive bandwidth in the world.

Flagrant violation of human rights this morning alongside UN summit

14 November 2005
TUNIS, TUNISIA () -

Under the incredulous eyes of the participants at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), journalists and human rights defenders were manhandled, insulted, and then violently beaten.