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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.
In 2017 Pangea.org went through a process of refreshing its image and improving its communication methods, towards its members and the world. The association's website has been renewed: the new one has a modern and clearer image and a new structure to facilitate access to information.
"Building Online Safety for Safe Houses" is a project implemented by One World Platform (OWP). OWP cooperated with four organisations responsible for safe houses that provide shelter for women and girls who have been abused.
The Nupef Institute supports the implementation of community networks in areas lacking internet access, both through the deployment of networks in regions that are not accessible and through the circulation of information on the dynamic use of spectrum.
Nodo TAU coordinated a series of communication workshops on digital skills for local organisations working on human rights, children's issues, labour and health rights, gender, social economy and Indigenous communities, among others.
MIDO has started a Facebook page called "Real or Not" to tackle the pressing issues of misinformation and incitement of inter-communal conflict in Myanmar. This is a flagship initiative in Myanmar and has inspired similar efforts in different locations and communities across the country.
In 2017, along with its Latin American transhackfeminist allies Vedetas and Periféricas, Kéfir started dismantling the patriarchal structures of the internet in the "Autonomous Feminist Networks" lab, during the EncontrADA 2017 technologies and ancestral knowledge gathering in Brazil.
All over the world, including Korea, there seems to be a craze for artificial intelligence, the internet of things and big data. These new technologies use comprehensive data including personal information, and Korean companies are demanding deregulation of personal information protection.
In September 2017, the Foundation for Media Alternatives published the results of its research project that developed a framework to assess open e-governance. The framework looked into how state and non-state actors use information and communications technologies to steer society collec...
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