International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
IDRC was one of our earliest supporters, providing funds needed to launch the APC Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) activities around the world during the lead-up to the 1995 UN World Conference on Women. IDRC also provided support to some of the earliest work promoting connectivity through a network of store-and-forward notes in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. IDRC continued to support initiatives of the APC WNSP, as well as the development of our Mission-Driven Business Planning Toolkit. IDRC also provided start-up support to our internet rights work through the Global ICT Policy Monitor project, with a focus on activities in Latin America and Africa. In addition, APC’s Betinho Communications Prize to recognise socially meaningful uses of the internet was funded by IDRC for the first two years, along with partial support for the APC Africa Hafkin Prize and, in 1995, for the APC Council Meeting in Brazil.
Work supported:
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Feminist Internet Research Network (2018-2022)
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Local Access Networks: Can the unconnected connect themselves? (2017-2018)
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Mapping Gender and the Information Society (2016-2017)
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A Rights-Based Approach to Internet Policy and Governance for the Advancement of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2013-2016)
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Building research and communications capacity for an open, fair and sustainable networked society: The APC Action Network (2010-2012)
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Implementation of a Business Development Strategy for the Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM business model) (2010-2011)
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Capacity Building and Institutional Support Project (INSPRO I and II) (2005-2010)
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Communication for Influence in Central, East and West Africa (CICEWA) (2008-2010)
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D-Island – online spaces for ICT4D practitioners (2010) Towards Détente in Media Piracy (2008-2010)
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Gender and ICT Evaluation Methodology (GEM II) (2006-2009)
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Communication for Influence in Latin America (CILAC) (2008-2009)
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GenARDIS project (2005-2009) Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX) (2008)
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Institutional strengthening and assessment of KICTANet (2007)
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Harambee (2006-2007) GEM workshop in Asia (2006)
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GenARDIS project evaluation (2006)
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Making EASSy Easy (2006)
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Capacity Building for Community Wireless Connectivity in Africa (2004-2006)
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Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE) (2005-2006)
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Media and ICT policy meeting (2006) Meeting of all wireless partners (2006)
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Wireless Going Forward (2006)
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Wireless Training workshop at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (2005)
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Global Gender and ICT Forum (2004)
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Africa ICT Policy Monitor project (2004-2005) Africa Hafkin Prize (2003-2005)
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Betinho Prize (2003 and 2005)
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Gender and ICT Evaluation Methodology (GEM) (2003-2004)
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LAC and Africa ICT Policy Monitor Projects (2003)
Link: https://www.idrc.ca/
The research report "Bottom-up Connectivity Strategies: Community-led small-scale telecommunication infrastructure networks in the global South" explores the benefits of, and challenges facing, small-scale, community-based connectivity projects. Here we look at the initiatives studied.
The research report "Bottom-up Connectivity Strategies: Community-led small-scale telecommunication infrastructure networks in the global South" explores the benefits of, and challenges facing, small-scale, community-based connectivity projects. Here we look at the motivations behind the research.
APC's 2018 Annual Report offers an engaging dive into one year in the network's life. All the 67 stories are clustered under the six priority areas that have informed APC's work from 2016 until 2019: Access, rights, a feminist internet, governance, use and development and APC community.
APC's 2018 Annual Report is a deep dive into one year of our network's life. It is a compendium of stories about how APC collectively strives for change, from a year when so many deeply rooted initiatives blossomed.
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This edition is a collection of essays and reflexive writings on feminist ways of knowing, and practices and priorities in feminist internet research. The focus is particularly on how there are added dimensions to all these questions when doing research on the internet and digital technology.
To document the benefits of, and challenges facing, small-scale, community-based connectivity projects, APC researchers visited 12 rural community networks in the global South in 2018 and studied a number of others through desk research and interviews.
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This practices document builds on feminist politics and values, and existing or conventional ethical requirements and frameworks for researchers. It draws from decades of feminist work in relation to ethics, care, intersectionality, positionality and standpoint, and also more recently on work in relation to internet-related and data-driven research.
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