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APC Brief on the Fifth Internet Governance Forum 10 September 2010 APC

The Internet Governance Forum is a platform for policy dialogue on internet governance, that emerged from the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The fifth annual meeting of the IGF will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania from 14 – 17 September 2010.

CARMA: Carbon Monitoring for Action 09 September 2010

Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) is a database containing information on the carbon emissions of over 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies worldwide. CARMA is the first global inventory of a major, emissions-producing sector of the economy. The objective of CARMA.org is to equip indi...

GenARDIS 2002 - 2010: Small grants that made big changes for women in agriculture
GenARDIS 2002 - 2010: Small grants that made big changes for women in agriculture 09 September 2010 APC

The GenARDIS fund disbursed USD 250,000 to use technology to improve rural livelihoods in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific over almost a decade. Here are lessons learned, in English and French.    

APC Annual Report 2009
APC Annual Report 2009 23 August 2010 APC

In November 2009, the Dominican Republic became the first Latin American country to pledge to include a ‘gender perspective’ – considering the distinct needs of men and women— in every technology initiative and policy developed by the government. The tool the Dominicans chose to design an...

Greening Government ICT: Efficient, Sustainable, Responsible
Greening Government ICT: Efficient, Sustainable, Responsible 17 August 2010

The Cabinet Office made recommendations in the report aimed at making the energy consumption of government ICT carbon-neutral within four years. The report claims the UK government is the first in the world to make such an effort. There is a longer-term plan for central government ICT to be carbo...

Collected news stories on the impact of the APC Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM)
Collected news stories on the impact of the APC Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) 16 August 2010 APC

GEM is an evaluation methodology that integrates a gender analysis into evaluations of initiatives that use information and communication technologies (ICTs) for social change. It provides a means for determining whether ICTs are worsening or really improving women’s lives and gender relations,...

e-Stewards: the globally responsible way to recycle your electronics
e-Stewards: the globally responsible way to recycle your electronics 13 August 2010

The e-Stewards Initiative is a project of the Basel Action Network (BAN), which runs the e-Stewards certification program for electronics recyclers. The certification program is designed to provide market incentives that drive the certification of the entire recycling chain that is managing the t...

GRIP: Better risk information for sound decision making
GRIP: Better risk information for sound decision making 11 August 2010

GRIP hosts a list of links to major sources of disaster data such as OCHA, USGS, GDACS, WB, IFRC, GRIP observatories, NGOs, media archives and many others. GRIP features a number of disaster management services: The Risk Informer: To support integration and generation of risk information; The Dis...

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