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 a good piece by Judy Rebick and Velcrow Ripper about the WSF. They say that “The inclusion of aboriginal people in this World Social Forum was a welcome change from the past. Another was the much greater participation of women in many of the panels. Women’s issues were also a ...
Hey, consider checking out Open Flows to get the latest update about the presence of free and open source software (FOSS) present in Caracas for the World Social Forum. The article Open Systems for Open Politics by Stefania Milan (IPS correspondent from Italy) gives you a couple of quick facts a...
One of the most stimulating opportunities for democratising communications offered by the internet was discussed in the “Radio and internet: the great technological challenge” workshop, organised by the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the Bolivarian University of Venezuela. The act...
The role of the WSF is to help us ask the right questions when we return home.
Regarding the initiative of launching a continental campaign for information rights, I’ve got the impression there is a real integration of all of the Americas. And you’ve got the chance to have Telesur, a true international alternative television. What’s interesting too is to hear the voic...
If you’ve ever seen six degrees of separation you may remember the scene where Stockard Channing keeps repeating chaos, control, chaos, control, you like, you like? as she flips a two-sided painting back and forth (I think it’s a Kandinsky). I can think of no better way to illustrate ...
A little something for everyone at the World Social Forum…
Just getting to the World Social Forum one knows that another world is possible. On the plane from Atlanta most passengers – if not all – were heading to the WSF. This led to a different kind of plane ride. Without even mentioning reading material – Mother Jones and a Venezuela ...
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