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This section features articles that are meant to inform readers about perspectives, issues and debates around certain topics considered relevant within the ICT arena, as well as highlights about all those activities and themes that matter to the APC network and the spaces we engage in.

Pakistan works to joining the CreativeCommons network KARACHI, Pakistan 02 April 2007 By FN for APCNews, with files from Faoud Bajwa

Soon after the launch of the CreativeCommons.org licensing programme for India, to the west, neighbouring Pakistan is working to get the same moving too. During a two-day workshop in Lahore, Pakistan, entitled "Towards an Open Information Society in Pakistan", issues of copyrights, intellectual prop...

“We want to make FOSS producers more influential, customers happier” GOA, India 02 April 2007 By FN for APCNews

APC member in Croatia, ZaMirNET, has joined an information and communication technologies industrial cluster working on free and open source software. Interview with Danijela Babic of ZaMirNET in this part two (of two) on Croatian software policy.

ZaMirNET joins a Croatian free software cluster
ZaMirNET joins a Croatian free software cluster 02 April 2007 By FN for APCNews

The APC member in Croatia, ZaMirNET, has joined an industrial cluster working on free and open source software. Read part one (of two) of this new adventure which might help transform Croatia’s software sector. The full interview in part two reveals the specific role ZaMirNET will play in the stil...

The GRACE research to hold new workshop, launch new website
The GRACE research to hold new workshop, launch new website 02 April 2007 By FD for APCNews

The Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE) is a research project that APCNews has been covering in the past. APC’s women programme in Africa (AAW) also engaged with the project over the last months. But where is it at? Capacity building workshops were held in July 2005 and Jun...

Overcoming the orphan curse with ICTs
Overcoming the orphan curse with ICTs 02 April 2007 By KW for APCNews for APCNews

In releasing the list of successful applicants in one of its small grants initiatives, APC’s women programme in Africa injected some real-life into the Swahili word "harambee" in March 2007. DSI.ORG, a small non-profit located in the western Ugandan district of Kabarole, was one of six Harambe...

Asia pursues a roadmap of action to strengthen “access to knowledge”
Asia pursues a roadmap of action to strengthen “access to knowledge” 02 April 2007 By Al Alegre

"Access to knowledge is both an issue of economic development and an issue of individual participation and human liberty" says an article by Jack M. Balkin. This buzzword makes reference to a world in which information and knowledge are increasingly becoming like products. Knowledge is worth money. ...

30 March: Stop Cyberbullying Day
30 March: Stop Cyberbullying Day 29 March 2007

Increasingly, harassment and stalking is happening in and through digital communications technology. As we gain access and use stuff like blogs, mobile phones, social networking platforms like Orkut and Friendster, personal information displayed and shared may be used in targeted harassment.

An option for online documentation, Newsrack.in, helps NGOs
An option for online documentation, Newsrack.in, helps NGOs 29 March 2007 By Frederick Noronha

Subramanya Sastry is an Indian techie who holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin but chooses to deploy his software skills for the development sector back home. A tool he created, called NewsRack.in, is drawing rave reviews from the few who have encountered it early.

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