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Violence against women online
Violence against women online 26 October 2015 Kembabazi Gloria

On the 28 and 29 September 2015, CIPESA held its eighth Forum on Internet Freedom in East Africa.

Claiming governance spaces: from Gender and Internet Governance Exchange to Africa Internet Governance Forum
Claiming governance spaces: from Gender and Internet Governance Exchange to Africa Internet Governance Forum 26 October 2015 Caroline Tagny

The Association for Progressive Communications’ Caroline Tagny interviewed Chenai Chair, a participant of the Africa Gender and Internet Governance Exchange, on her experience. Chenai Chair is a researcher with Research ICT Africa.

MISA Regional Workshop on Internet Governance
MISA Regional Workshop on Internet Governance 23 October 2015

The training will be jam packed filled with exciting and relevant content to further build Internet Governance capacity and knowledge sharing in the SADC region.

Sudanese civil society calls for protection of Sudanese human rights defenders and journalists
Sudanese civil society calls for protection of Sudanese human rights defenders and journalists 14 October 2015

The coalition of Sudanese and international civil society organisations involved in developing this submission call on the international community to hold Sudan accountable for its human rights violations, and to ensure protection of human rights defenders and journalists.

Universal Periodic Review - Sudan. Civil society calls for protection of Sudanese human rights defenders and journalists
Universal Periodic Review - Sudan. Civil society calls for protection of Sudanese human rights defenders and journalists 13 October 2015

On 21 September, 10 Sudanese civil society and human rights organisations (names have been withheld, as protection against reprisals) in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Alternatives, submitted a stakeholder report to the second UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Sudan, scheduled to take place in Geneva in April 2016. This revie...

Stakeholder submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Sudan
Stakeholder submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Sudan 13 October 2015

On 21 September, 10 Sudanese civil society and human rights organisations (names have been withheld, as protection against reprisals) in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Alternatives, submitted a stakeholder report to the second UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Sudan, scheduled to take place in Geneva in April 2016.

Internet rights are human rights: Reflections from workshops in the DRC and Kenya on violence against women
Internet rights are human rights: Reflections from workshops in the DRC and Kenya on violence against women 07 October 2015 Caroline Tagny

I’ve had the privilege, this past year, to travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Kenya to facilitate workshops based on our Internet Rights are Human Rights: Violence Against Women (VAW) online curriculum.

Building a context for self-development and learning through the provision of free access to the internet in public libraries  in South Africa
Building a context for self-development and learning through the provision of free access to the internet in public libraries in South Africa 29 September 2015 Association for Progressive Communications (APC) on behalf of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

This report focuses on the provision of free internet access to communities in public libraries in South Africa. It has been prepared in response to a United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) review of the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Plan of Action commitments, with the aim of gauging the extent to which South Africa has met those commitments ten years after...

PROTEGE QV at the African School on Internet Governance: “The African Declaration should be a citizen handbook on internet use”
PROTEGE QV at the African School on Internet Governance: “The African Declaration should be a citizen handbook on internet use” 28 September 2015 Leila Nachawati

Since 1995, PROTEGE QV has worked in promoting rural development, protecting the environment and improving the well-being of communities in Cameroon. In 2007, it joined APC as the first central African member with the following motto: “We believe in the power of ICT to give equal access to information as a strategy to fight against poverty.”    

Report on the Southern Africa Regional Infrastructure Sharing Workshop
Report on the Southern Africa Regional Infrastructure Sharing Workshop 23 September 2015 CRASA and APC

ICT policy makers and regulators from 14 Southern African countries comprising the Member States of the SADC region gathered in Johannesburg to discuss how infrastructure sharing strategies and policies can be used to improve broadband access in the region. Dveloping countries can save billions and speed universal broadband access by sharing telecom infrastructure (such as ducts, fibres and mas...

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