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.

Cheap fibre coming to East Africa 04 December 2006 APC

The Kenyan Government

Dawn of the digital city 01 December 2006 APC

“It’s a go for the installation tomorrow, I know I’m last minute, but that’s the life of a ninja,” Alexis Cornellier, director of operations for the Montreal-based community wireless network Île Sans Fil (ISF) wrote in an sms. ISF has now become a catalyst for the establishment of the ...

Basic Literacy Skills are a requirement in bridging the digital divide
Basic Literacy Skills are a requirement in bridging the digital divide 29 November 2006 APC

In order to bridge the digital divide in Africa, one area that needs attention is imparting of basic literacy skills amongst the majority of the adult population, many of whom cannot read or write.

GEM @ AMARC9
GEM @ AMARC9 24 November 2006 APC

Jennifer Radloff (APC) and Janine Moolman (WomensNet) traveled to Jordanian Amman to attend the ninth conference of The Association of Community Radio Practitioners AMARC. Their main mission was to organize a workshop on the Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) and to show to radio people that GE...

LaborTech kicked off with images of Asian resistance
LaborTech kicked off with images of Asian resistance 18 November 2006 APC

LaborTech, the annual three-day conference on media and information and communication technologies (ICTs) for the global labour movement, got underway on November 17 2006 in screening videos from India, Japan and Korea.

Surveillance in the workplace
Surveillance in the workplace 18 November 2006 APC

In a panel entitled “The bosses’ use of technology, outsourcing and worker’s resistance”, in the currently ongoing LaborTech conference in beautiful San Francisco, labour educator Nancy Bupp talked about workplace surveillance in the US.

Critical Issues for National Policy and Advocacy on Open Access
Critical Issues for National Policy and Advocacy on Open Access 17 November 2006 APC

Open Access in the context

Giving voice to the Voiceless!!
Giving voice to the Voiceless!! 16 November 2006 APC

Greetings! Lauren writing from the AMARC 9 World Assembly in Amman,Jordan. It has been a privilege to be present here among the global and regional AMARC family and the many local community radio activists and journalists. I wish to share very good news from the Community Radio sector of India...

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