Association for Progressive Communications

05.03.2003 Gamos Ltd. and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation have carried out field research through local universities in Ghana, Botswana and Uganda, which concentrated on talking to users and potential users in rural and low-income areas. The results highlight some interesting features of how people use and access phones, and illuminate factors that lie behind some of the choices that users have to make.

05.03.2003 With one of Africa's largest conflicts ending slowly, large parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo are beginning to return to a normal life. The growing peace has opened up a considerable boom in telecommunications, largely of the mobile variety.

28.02.2003 Open Source Technologies and the free software movement are transforming how developing countries are running with the Information Society, say technologists from the African continent.

28.02.2003 The members of the NGO gender strategies working group of the World Summit on the Information Society have written an open letter in response to the 'Non-Paper' prepared for the WSIS second preparatory conference being held in Geneva. The letter conveys the concerns of NGOs and other activists with regard to the orientation, content and form of the Non-Paper.

26.02.2003 The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) came into being at a gathering of WSIS participants, including government delegations, civil society actors, UN agencies and the media.