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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.

APC launches new international free software prize MEXICO CITY, Mexico 25 August 2006 By APCNews

A new prize, the APC Chris Nicol FOSS Prize, was launched on Friday August 25 in Mexico City. The biennial $4,000 USD prize will be awarded to a person or group doing extraordinary work to make it easy for ordinary computer users to start using free and open source software (FOSS).

Reduce the cost of international internet connectivity NEW YORK, United States of America 07 August 2006 By APCNews

In Argentina, internet access averages 13 dollars a month and almost a fifth of the population are online whereas in Sudan internet access costs 160 USD a month and only 9 people in a thousand are online. Africa, the poorest continent in the world, has the highest costs for internet access. In the r...

Non-profits take to Drupal... increasingly and intensely
Non-profits take to Drupal... increasingly and intensely 04 August 2006 By FN for APCNews

When Partha Sarkar of APC-member BytesForAll decided to turn the South Asian volunteer-driven network he co-founded into an even more participative affair, he opted for Drupal. And Sarkar and company are not alone. Other members of the APC network are also finding Drupal is a convenient tool for set...

BETINHO PRIZE: The voices of women and communities through radio telecentres
BETINHO PRIZE: The voices of women and communities through radio telecentres 04 August 2006 By AL for APCNews

First it was radio, then the internet. First women’s organisations, then the community. The story of CEMINA, a Brazilian communication and gender organisation, is one of growth, change and openness. Its radio telecentre work captivated the APC Betinho Prize jury in 2005.

Redefining local and global working spaces
Redefining local and global working spaces 03 August 2006 By AL for APCNews

Uruguayan civil society has insisted on showing its successive governments that information and communication technology (ICT) related policies are a key issue in the country’s development that goes beyond expanding the software industry.

Fresh air and free networks in Denmark
Fresh air and free networks in Denmark 03 August 2006 By FD for APCNews

The Djurslands International Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband (DIIRWB) is not joking about free information infrastructures. Its advocates study and plan projects, and then go out in the open field to help to start up wireless networks. But before antennas are glued to barns and receivers taped...

South Asia needs to talk across borders to solve language issue
South Asia needs to talk across borders to solve language issue 01 August 2006 By FN for APCNews

An Indo-Pakistan encounter, in war or cricket, leaves behind tonnes of bitterness and rivalry. But, in information and communication technology, the main regret facing techies from both sides of the troubled South Asian sub-continent, is why they can’t work more effectively together, to tackle...

From here to where? APC meet zooms in on FOSS in South Asia
From here to where? APC meet zooms in on FOSS in South Asia 01 August 2006 By FN for APCNews

From here to where? And how? APC’s April Bangladesh consultation on communication policy, which brought in diverse people from across South Asia, helped to connect ideas that nudge forward ideals of freedom-in-computing in this populous part of the planet. One of the sessions that participants...

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