News

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.

Women too look at wireless networking, to bridge the gaps ROSARIO-SANTE FE, Argentina 18 August 2005 By Translation: APC

Wireless networks is attracting growing attention across the globe, as a plausible way of providing internet access in marginal areas or in cases where costs are prohibitive. Cristo Redentor Telecentre co-ordinator Cristina Ojeda joined a workshop on wireless networking organized by the Latin Americ...

Internet governance, what does it really boil down to? RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil 18 August 2005 By Carlos A Afonso

How’s this huge, influential and potentially-useful beast called the internet to be governed? Who is to call the shots? Brazil-based RITS’s strategy director Carlos Afonso takes a close look at how control of the internet is sought to be transformed, before a crucial crossroad comes up i...

Behind the mumbo-jumbo of "Intellectual Property"
Behind the mumbo-jumbo of "Intellectual Property" 18 August 2005 By Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS)

Why do intellectual property issues matter to civil society? Because they affect the public’s access to knowledge in the public domain and to copyrighted work, and infiltrated into the domain of food and medicine, threatening the sustainability of indigenous knowledge and biodiversity. What ca...

Civil Society Caucus appreciates internet governance process
Civil Society Caucus appreciates internet governance process 18 August 2005

The WSIS Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus has supported and voiced its appreciation for the process and outcome of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). The Caucus has welcomed the adoption of a broad working definition of Internet Governance, and believes that the high quality of...

Update: When cyberspace goes to Amazonia...
Update: When cyberspace goes to Amazonia... 03 August 2005 By Rits

What happens when wireless, Free Software and the internet reaches the Amazon? APC’s member in Brazil, RITS, gives an update of their project in Pará, a territory covered mostly by jungle, and the Amazon Rainforest.

Australia, South Korea join hands on iCommons project
Australia, South Korea join hands on iCommons project 01 August 2005

Producer and artistic director Andrew Garton of APC´s Australian member organisation has left for Seoul, for work on a joint Creative Commons project. Over two weeks, he plans a "fairly daily blog from Seoul".

Latino networkers connect up at Venezuela
Latino networkers connect up at Venezuela 28 July 2005 By APCNews

Travelling down seven tracks, an estimated 220 participants from Latin America and the Caribbean take the fast-road to picking up essential tech skills that promise to make it easier for the region to communicate with less hiccups, and help build the much-needed not-for-profit networks and content-s...

Wireless talks development, that too in Spanish:  www.wilac.net
Wireless talks development, that too in Spanish: www.wilac.net 28 July 2005 By WiLAC.net

Wireless Technologies for Development has just got a new focus online — and that too in the planet’s third most widely spoken language, Spanish — with the launch of an information portal, WiLAC, that focuses exclusively on this theme. It is designed to support individuals, organisa...

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