[…] “What we have seen in the last three years is that no longer do governments shy away from attempting to regulate Internet content,” said Joy Liddicoat, project co-ordinator at New Zealand-based Association for Progressive Communications, which seeks to protect people’s rights on and to the Internet.
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Voice of America
04 September 2011
[…] The Global Information Society Watch reported last year that ICTs could help to cut total production of greenhouse gases by as much as fifteen percent by twenty twenty. Alan Finlay is with the Association for Progressive Communications. He also helped to prepare the GISWatch report. He says the effect of using ICTs to build cleaner environments is far more powerful than their harmful effects
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AWID
02 September 2011
[…] “Without a doubt information and communication technologies (ICTs) are changing the way we carry out our activism – in our neighbourhoods or globally – and women´s rights activists are in the thick of it.” AWID interviewed Erika Smith of the Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) on women using ICTs to mobilize.
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IPS News
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Denmark
14 January 2010
The audience, a group of committed women – and men -, had gathered in Rome to discuss this widespread emergency and the role media have in relation to it in a conference organised by the IPS news agency and supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the city of Rome.[…] Communications rights should be part of these efforts, said Jac SM Kee, coordinator of Women’s Rights Advocacy in the Association for Progressive Communications.[…]
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Spider Magazine
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Pakistan
07 January 2010
On November 25, online media, including different blogs and social networking websites, roared ‘Take Back the Tech!’, echoing the plight of several people from across the world supporting the international movement, ‘Take Back the Tech! 2009’. This campaign is a 16-day yearly effort, aimed at promoting gender neutrality in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It primarily focusses on ending gender-based violence, and encourages female ICT users to use technology to end violence against women.[…]
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