Association for Progressive Communications

16.10.2003 APC has announced the 12 finalists for the Betinho Communications Prize 2003. Three of the projects will be awarded US$ 7,500 in prize in recognition of their outstanding people-centred technology initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean.

14.10.2003 The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has published its latest annual report for 2002. Highlights include: APC in the run-up to the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS); the APC ICT policy monitors in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean; a new training course to help civil society organisations understand how ICT policy decisions affect their work; a free software content management system; and the Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) for ICT initiatives which was piloted in four continents.

06.10.2003 Civil society organisations (CSOs) are frustrated that a large number of their proposals have been ignored by state officials crafting the declaration for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in December 2003. CSOs are now deliberating on an alternative declaration of their own for delegates’ consideration at the summit.

03.10.2003

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A new book lays out clearly what is at stake when governments gather in December to discuss the global control of information. “As our mass media become more and more sanitized and commodified, our airspace sold to the highest bidders, and our common knowledge and creativity get fenced off, we fear that the information society is solely promoting the expansion of corporate control at people’s expense,” said one activist.

02.10.2003 Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) son un sector en expansión, pero en los países en desarrollo sólo están al alcance de una minoría. Además, la concentración de la propiedad y del control limita la capacidad de impacto social. Este libro, elaborado por la Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones con motivo de la próxima Conferencia Mundial sobre Sociedad de la Información, pone sobre la mesa cuestiones prioritarias para el encuentro, encaminadas a convertir en derechos fundamentales el acceso a Internet y las comunicaciones.