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LAUNCH OF APC'S ANNUAL REPORT 2005: APC keeps campaigning, sees tangled wires in the ICT world GOA, India 04 October 2006 By FN for APCNews

2005 will be the year the Association for Progressive Communications remembers most for the World Summit on the Information Summit. But, says the just released Annual Report 2005, that event – which culminated in Tunis in November of 2005 – was like a struggle to finding the forest among...

SOCIAL WATCH REPORT: Call it ‘digital divideS’, major study suggests GOA, India 04 October 2006 By FN for APCNews

Unequal access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) has generated new inequalities, according to Social Watch -a coalition of 400 non-governmental organisations present in 60 countries. This year’s report, the eleventh edition, finds there is an urgent need to reform the curren...

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING: Working in triangles to get projects moving
PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING: Working in triangles to get projects moving 04 October 2006 By FD for APCNews

From September 3-8, APC people descended on Pruhonice, a small town just outside Prague for the annual board and management meeting. While the first focused on APC governance issues, the management part of the meeting got under way with a warm-up training. Rob Purdie from iMPORTANT PROJECTS joined t...

‘Now we have made a noise’ says APC's Ugandan member WOUGNET
‘Now we have made a noise’ says APC's Ugandan member WOUGNET 03 October 2006 By Alan Finlay

The goal of The Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) is to promote the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by women’s organisations in Uganda. Set up in 2000, APC member WOUGNET has been a lead actor in bringing a gender focus to ICT policy in Uganda, open source software and the...

Turning points in the DRC for APC-member Alternatives
Turning points in the DRC for APC-member Alternatives 03 October 2006 By Alan Finlay

Only just emerging from a civil war, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has for many years proved difficult for development initiatives to work in. This is especially the case when dealing with ICTs, which many people do not consider a developmental imperative. But as the Canadian-based APC member...

Africa must have a say in the IGF, protest from citizens in open letter
Africa must have a say in the IGF, protest from citizens in open letter 03 October 2006 By FD for APCNews

In an open letter sent to Markus Kummer, coordinator of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), on Otober 3 2006, African civil society organisations working on communication regulation clearly stated their commitment to contribute to the trailblazing Athens IGF encounter to be held later in October. T...

Drupal usability report made available
Drupal usability report made available 03 October 2006 By Oliver Zielke

Web Networks’ report on the usability of the content management system Drupal is now available on drupal.org. APC Canadian member Web Network has developed this detailed and professional report with the support of APC’s ActionKit project. Says, the report summary: "the overall conclusion...

IT-powered civil protest turns polluting gold-miners away
IT-powered civil protest turns polluting gold-miners away 28 September 2006 By Filka Sekulova

In an unprecedented act of civil and internet activism, the villagers of a small mountain village in Bulgaria succeeded to prevent an environmentally devastating gold mining project. Despite the pressure from the corporation, the federal authorities and the police, the local community was victorious...

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