APC Talk

This section is a space where APC's staff, members and readers can open up conversations on topics that are of interest for the ICT community. It is a space where authors get to be themselves – sometimes to express opinions and challenge the readers on issues and topics that are close to them, sometimes to share their personal experience on an event or a current debate. The views expressed in this section do not necessarily reflect the views of APC or its network, but that does not make them any less valuable.

Bangladesh is poised to become a model for systematic and sustainable Community Radio 17 April 2010 AHM Bazlur Rahman S21BR

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has organized a conference on ‘Community Radio in Bangladesh: Lesson from International Practice, Moving from Policy to Action in Bangladesh’, on 13th April 2010, in BRAC Inn, Dhaka, Bangladesh, supported by USAID/PROGATI. Internatio...

Copyright or Copyleft - Workshop on Access to Knowledge 13 April 2010 Henrik Almström

I attended the APC hosted A2K workshop on Wednesday with a bag of expectations. The schedule looked promising, the participants were supposed to come from a wide variety of professions and organisations. I must say most of those expectations were fulfilled – which was a lot thanks to the great ...

How much energy does one web search expend?
How much energy does one web search expend? 10 April 2010 Federico Perez

Recent documented studies has shown that computing and networking electricity direct and indirect (air conditioning of data centers represent 50% of the total power supply bill) consumption account for a global warming impact comparable to that of civil aviation. Most of this consumption is linke...

A comparison between Commercial Open Source Web Development, CMS and E-Commerce Systems and existing Open Source Systems.Part-2
A comparison between Commercial Open Source Web Development, CMS and E-Commerce Systems and existing Open Source Systems.Part-2 09 April 2010 philippe bodart

Wordpress ..usable beyond blogging? It is widely accepted that Wordpress is an excellent system when you want your ideas out quickly on the web. It is therefore often used as a blog, because you are out there quickly, but Wordpress can be configured in many different ways. Wordpress is extremely ...

Conference on Community Radio in Bangladesh: Lesson from International Practice, Moving from Policy to Action in Bangladesh
Conference on Community Radio in Bangladesh: Lesson from International Practice, Moving from Policy to Action in Bangladesh 08 April 2010 AHM Bazlur Rahman S21BR

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is organizing a Conference on Community Radio in Bangladesh: Lesson from International Practice, Moving from Policy to Action in Bangladesh with support from USAID/PROGATI project. The conference would be held on Tuesday, 13 April, 2010 ...

Technology lifts status for many African women
Technology lifts status for many African women 01 April 2010 Rebecca Wanjiku

For the last decade, cultural issues as well as a lack of information, capital and opportunity have been advanced as reasons why there are few women in technology-related businesses in Africa, but trends are slowly changing. The emergence of mobile money services led by the growth of GSM networks...

Why small grants for Gender and agriculture in the information society?
Why small grants for Gender and agriculture in the information society? 29 March 2010 LC

The small grants programme, Gender, Agricultrue and Rural Development in the Information Society GenARDIS that started in 2002, was developed to support work at the grassroots level on gender-related issues in ICTs for agricultural and rural development in the African, Caribbean and Pacific regio...

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