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.

WSF: Italy signs Kenya's debt cancellation 23 January 2007 APC

At the World Social Forum the International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI) entered in a dialogue with the Italian Minister for Development Co-operation, Patrizia Sentinelli, about the involvement of social movements in policies that may result from the agreement to be signed today to convert Kenya...

E-visiting Kenya, and the WSF... 21 January 2007 APC

Pambazuka News is offering coverage from the the WSF at Kenya here. Fahamu‘s Flickr photos of the event are here Bloggers posts on WSF-Kenya (via Technorati.com, are coming up here. And Google.news has some (mainstream, but sometimes interesting) perspectives here.

The internet in Latin America... from the eyes of its protagonists
The internet in Latin America... from the eyes of its protagonists 21 January 2007 APC

Check this blog by Jose Sorian titled “la historia de Internet en ALC por sus protagonistas” at http://interred.wordpress.com/. Thanks to Adolfo Dunayevich of APC for putting out the link. Some other links on that blog’s blog-roll: Convergencias de gente en la red; LANIC –...

Creative Commons comes to India
Creative Commons comes to India 18 January 2007 APC

Premier technological institute IIT Bombay is to launch the Indian chapter of Creative Commons during its annual Technology Festival of India, later this month (January 2007). The Creative Commons (CC) is a global non-profit working to expand the range of creative work available for others "legal...

India looks out for models, skills on community radio
India looks out for models, skills on community radio 18 January 2007 APC

Looking at a few available models, social groups interested in entering the field of non-commercial ‘community radio’ broadcasting are actively assessing models for the same.

Give the WSF an African flavour
Give the WSF an African flavour 16 January 2007 APC

Wow! Here is a good analysis of why it’s important that this year’s WSF takes place in Africa. The Mail & Guardian article says: "Sometimes referred to as the "carnival of the oppressed", the WSF brings together those who oppose globalisation in its current form and international ...

Arab Commons – Creating the Arabic Digital Commons
Arab Commons – Creating the Arabic Digital Commons 08 January 2007 APC

On January 1 2007, the Arab Commons initiative was officially launched as an ambitious project to promote and support the creation and development of Arabic content released under Creative Commons licenses.

The Chaos in the Bazaar: The CCC kicks off
The Chaos in the Bazaar: The CCC kicks off 27 December 2006 APC

Hackers, young zit-faced teenagers, mid-aged technologists and enthusiastic social techies rallied behind the motto “Who Can You Trust?”. It’s called the Chaos Communications Congress (CCC) and attracts several hundred Central and Eastern Europeans, but also North Americans by now.

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