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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 NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) and with other Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) has been continuing advocacy with the Government for a long time to open up the Community Radio in Bangladesh.
A seminar on ‘Multi-Stakeholder National Consultation: CSOs and Aid Effectiveness’ was held in the city yesterday. The seminar was organised jointly by a research and advocacy organisation (and APC-member) VOICE and a global networking organisation ‘Reality of Aid’ at the ...
A couple of weeks ago we blogged that workers employed in care homes in north London (UK) were told by their employer — a private company called Fremantle — that their wages were being cut by 30%, their hours increased, their sick pay become a thing of the past, and their pensions...
Delegates representing NGOs-members of the EDRI (European Digital Rights) network took part in the General Assembly (GA) in Berlin September 1-2, 2007, discussing current issues of interest and the overall functioning of the association.
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Africa are to send a 20-member delegation to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in November 2007 to ensure that the African voices are heard. Speaking on behalf of the CSOs, Ms Natasha Primo of the Association for Progressive Commu...
Ismail Farouk scooped the winning prize in the “individual” category of the Highway Africa New Media Award 2007, for his website Soweto Uprisings – www.sowetouprisings.com, which he describes as a “Google maps mash up”.
Kristin Palitza of Agenda Magazine was the chair of a discussion panel on gender and the media today, September 11 2007, in Grahamstown, South Africa. Unlike most of the other panels at Highway Africa, this one lined up three women and no man. Certainly a colourful and rather critical one in an e...
The Highway Africa 2007 Conference kicked off yesterday, with an opening discussion on the conference theme: excellence in journalism and journalism as a profession on the African continent. Read the full article on ITWeb.
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