APC launches new international free software prize

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Sep 3 (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.

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. 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.

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. 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.

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.

The Association for Progressive Communications is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals through the strategic use of information and communication technologies, especially internet technologies.

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Do you have a right to online knowledge? Report shows open internet in danger

12 November 2009
JOHANNESBURG () -

PRESS RELEASE

EMBARGO November 16 2009 00.00hs

*Do you have a right to online knowledge?

Launch of draft framework for a national broadband strategy highlights policy vacuum in South Africa

25 March 2009
JOHANNESBURG (APC and partners) -

A draft framework towards a broadband strategy in South Africa was launched in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

NEW BOOK: Watchdog report tackles the issue of unequal access to the internet and the information society in 2008

27 January 2009
JOHANNESBURG (GISWatch 2008) -

How do we ensure access to the internet is a human right enjoyed by everyone?

New report out on wireless in rural Africa released

10 December 2008
MONTEVIDEO (APC) -

The rationale for the report is featured in an APCNews article Rural communication: Is there still a need for telecentres now that there are mobile phones? which is a

International workshop in Budapest challenges data retention

25 September 2008
BUDAPEST (Central European University) -

70 international experts and e-activists met in Budapest on Friday
September 19 to discuss EU-wide policies on data retention and to develop

The end of privacy

22 September 2008
BUDAPEST (Central European University ) -

International experts and e-activists meet in Budapest to discuss data retention on the internet

Press announcement

September 18, 2008

A new network advocating communication strategies is created in Gorée

20 June 2008
GOREE ISLAND (APC) -

The GOREe-TIC network was officially created Friday June 20th during the last day of a workshop covering the use and politics of ICT at the Gorée Institute.

South Africa - APC supports national regulator against monopoly

7 March 2008
JOHANNESBURG () -

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC), an international non-profit actor on internet access worldwide, has stated its whole-hearted support of the Independent Communications Authority o

Free Media, Free Society

18 December 2007
QUEZON CITY () -

FREE MEDIA, FREE SOCIETY

[Statement of the Foundation for Media Alternatives on the Arrest of Media Persons in relation to the Manila Peninsula incident of 29 November 2007]

Inspired by Aarhus Convention, Council of Europe and APC propose a code for public participation in internet regulation

13 November 2007
RIO DE JANEIRO () -

Intergovernmental and civil society organisations propose a self-regulatory mechanism to foster participation, access to information and transparency in internet governance at the Internet Governance

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