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.[…]
APC in the media and selected publications
Inter Press Service (IPS)
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YAOUNDÉ
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Cameroon
06 December 2010
653 reads
Inter Press Service (IPS)
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South Africa
19 November 2010
515 reads
Sunda Inquirer Magazine
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Manila
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Philippines
13 November 2010
550 reads
Charlotte Scarf
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RMIT University
12 February 2010
643 reads
APCNews
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Costa Rica
13 January 2010
762 reads
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.[…]
733 reads
iTWire
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Australia
22 November 2009
A wide-ranging three-hour session on critical Internet resources at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh this week made clear the continuing points of global friction when it comes to how US involvement Internet control is perceived by its critics.
486 reads
The Independent
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Uganda
15 September 2009
885 reads
Deutche Welle
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Germany
22 July 2009
934 reads
Business Report & Independent Online
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South Africa
21 July 2009
982 reads
Radio France International
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USA
10 May 2009
1,046 reads
Computer World Kenya
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Zambia
07 March 2009
885 reads
British Broadcasting Corporation
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United Kingdom
15 January 2009
948 reads
International Journal of Communication
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United States of America
01 January 2007
APC’s network of affiliated organisations involves and incorporates actors from nearly all communication-information policy issues, and its network contains an unusual degree of technical knowledge about the Internet and telecommunication. APC have put particular emphasis on broadening access to ICTs in the developing world. But they were never just an ICT4D group; they also promoted free expression rights, privacy rights and gender equality as well. […] …when the WSIS debates shifted toward Internet governance APC alone was well prepared to handle it. That flexibility and scope, coupled with the facilitation and organising skills of APC’s professional staff, accounts for its centrality and influence.”
Conclusion of Milton Mueller et al in a case study on the role of advocacy groups in international communication and information policy. Extracted from Mueller, M. et al. (2007) “Democratising Global Communication? Global Civil Society and the Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society” in International Journal of Communication 1 (2007), pp. 267-296.
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