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.

Recording women and girls, telling stories, broadcasting JOHANNESBURG, South Africa 01 March 2005

APC member in South Africa, Women’sNet, is launching a number of innovative projects concerning women, internet and media. "Recording Women & Gender Issues" builds capacity for collaborative gender programming in the community radio sector. "She-Bytes" is a new audio website featuring dram...

Embracing ICTs to eliminate violence against women and children in Kazakhstan PRAGUE, Czech Republic 01 March 2005

The high cost of telephony and technical services is a principal barrier to ICT access for women networking against violence in Central Asia, as well as language, training, and gender stereotypes about women’s use of technology. Such barriers have motivated the Podrugi Crisis Centre to become ...

Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE)
Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE) 01 March 2005

GRACE, a new project from APC-Africa-Women, aims to explore the ways in which women in Africa use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to empower themselves, the external, structural barriers as well as the internal factors which prevent them from using ICTs to their advantage, and the ...

WSIS update: APC in African regional preparatory conference in Ghana
WSIS update: APC in African regional preparatory conference in Ghana 01 March 2005

The African Regional Conference, preparatory to the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), was held in Accra, Republic of Ghana, from February 2 to 4, 2005. Participating in the Conference were representatives of African governments, delegates from many other countries a...

WSIS update: Internet Governance Caucus statement
WSIS update: Internet Governance Caucus statement 22 February 2005 By APCNews

The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus presented this statement during PrepCom 2 of the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva. The Caucus expresses its support for the Working Group on Internet Governance’s multi stakeholder approach. "We believe that legitimate and successfu...

SANGONeT: First annual "ICTs for Civil Society" conference and exhibition
SANGONeT: First annual "ICTs for Civil Society" conference and exhibition 22 February 2005 By David Barnard – Executive Director of SANGONeT

The Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT), APC member in South Africa, will host its first annual "ICTs for Civil Society" conference and exhibition from 1-3 March 2005 in Fourways, Johannesburg. Given the ever-increasing interest in and importance of ICT issues to the civil society organisations ...

ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit (MMTK) Evaluation
ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit (MMTK) Evaluation 17 February 2005 By ItrainOnline/APC

The MMTK is a series of modular training materials for use in face-to-face workshops. If you haven’t explored the MMTK resources, take a moment to do so. There are now more than 60 units on 15 different topics ranging from web radio production to internet policy advocacy to technology planning...

Statement on financing the information society
Statement on financing the information society 17 February 2005 By APCNews

The statement was read by Anita Gurumurthy to the general assembly on behalf of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Bread for All, the CRIS Campaign, Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM), IT for Change and the gender caucus in response to the report of the Task Force on Financial Mech...

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