Association for Progressive Communications

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) was formed in 1990 and "is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), including the internet."

Members

Funders

Supporters 2003

• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Knowledge and capacity for Civil Society Engagement in ICT Policies: leveraging the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
• Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO): ICT Policy for Civil Society Training in Colombia; Global ICT Policies and Civil Society Project (ICT policy handbook and training curriculum)
• Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst e.V. (EED): Mobilising Civil Society for the Word Summit on the Information Society
• Ford Foundation: Global Advocacy on Communication Rights
• Frederich Ebert Stiftung (FES): ICT Policy for Civil Society Training in Colombia
• GTZ: APC ActionApps Reseller Training in Africa
• HIVOS: APC-Africa-Women; Global ICT Policy Monitor (Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa)
• Institute of Connectivity in the Americas (ICA): Betinho Prize 2003
• International Development Research Centre (IDRC): Africa Hafkin Prize; Betinho Prize; LAC and Africa ICT Policy Monitor Projects; Gender and ICT Evaluation Methodology (GEM)
• Open Society Institute Southern Africa (OSISA): Africa ICT Policy Monitor Project
• Open Society Institute: ICT Policy for Civil Society Training in Colombia
• Rockefeller Foundation: Multimedia Toolkit Project
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC): Gender and ICT Awards
• UK Department for International Development (DFID): Gender and ICT Evaluation Methodology (GEM)
• UNESCO: Multimedia Toolkit Project
• Contributions towards travel expenses for the World Summit on the Information Society: IndoTel, Open Society Institute – West Africa, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), University of Maryland, and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)

2006/7 Executive Board members

• Natasha Primo, South Africa (Chair)
• Olinca Marino, Mexico (Vice Chair)
• Danijela Babic, Croatia (Secretary)
• Mark Graham, USA (Treasurer)
• Mihaly Bako, Romania
• Danilo Lujambio, Argentina
• Kong Sidaroth, Cambodia
• Valentina Pellizzer, Italy
• Alternates: Andrew Garton (Australia) and John Dada (Nigeria)

Contact

Web: http://www.apc.org

Resources and articles

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