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.
Here is an article from our staff writer Frederick Noronha, published on the Indo-Asian News Service on January 27 2007. Chair of the global Creative Commons network, Joichi Ito, has welcomed India into the network of countries that offer alternatives to "all rights reserved" approaches of copyri...
AFRICAN STRUGGLES, GLOBAL STRUGGLES Social Movements Assembly at the World Social Forum Nairobi, 24 January 2007 More than 2000 activists loudly and energetically endorsed this statement at the Social Movements Assembly in Nairobi.
APC member SANGONeT features in this report titled South Africa: Rescue Attempt On Poorly Performing Telecentres. Says the Johannesburg-datelined report in Business Day, which is South Africa’s major business-oriented daily: “Dozens of telecentres set up to take telecommunications ser...
The giant multinational soft drinks Coca-Cola Company is in trouble, thanks to the International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable for destroying lives, livelihoods and communities. The campaign that was initiated in India puts pressure on the Coca-Cola Company and links human rights, enviro...
Monga, is a famine like situation most strongly observed in several northern districts of Bangladesh, has been recurring every year for decades. The two months of monga between September and October is marked by a dire lack of food, which arises due to the absence of non-agricultural employment a...
Wahu is small and charismatic when she more yells than talks. “Africa is not poverty, Africa is not HIV, Africa is not dying. Africa is the human spirit. Another Africa is possible. We are refusing to die. Let me hear you audience; another Africa is possible. Let us welcome all our guests to Na...
The private yet very important room! The toilet is one room that every human being — regardless of race, social status or gender — can never avoid. To most people, visiting the washroom requires high degree of secrecy. Yet, often, this secrecy is seldom given priority especially in pu...
Never forgets to celebrate the Christmas Eve with his dear special needs children in Salamieh Community Telecentre
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