Enabling meaningful internet access for women APC’s Jac sm Kee coordinated the Best Practice Forum (BPF) on Gender and Access for the 2016 Internet Governance Forum (IGF), together with Renata Aquino Ribeiro, an individual member of APC. This BPF focused specifically on barriers to meaningful access for women, such as cultural norms, online threats, affordability, decision-making power, capacity and content. It… Read More
Framing APC’s approach to closing the access divide Affordable and reliable internet access has become a vital means to exercise fundamental human rights and to support economic, social and human development. However, as the internet becomes more ubiquitous, less is being heard from those who are unconnected – the less wealthy and more marginalised – who are unable to exercise their rights on… Read More
Confronting the risks posed by media concentration and digital convergence Explosive growth in the use of ICTs promises greater availability of information and potential for freedom of expression. However, the technological changes that are leading to the convergence of broadcast and broadband media are also resulting in massive industry consolidation and cross-ownership of electronic media platforms. Combined with the imminent analogue-to-digital broadcasting switchover in Latin… Read More
Digital security training with a feminist perspective APC’s work against online gender-based violence has resulted in a growing number of requests for digital security trainings from a feminist perspective. For the Exploratory Research on Sexuality and ICTs (EROTICS) South Asia project, Nadine Moawad offered training on digital security and also feminist politics of the internet in Nepal and Sri Lanka, as well… Read More
APC network experiences record growth in 2016 This was a year of significant growth for our network. Five new organisational members and five new individual members joined APC in 2016. The new member organisations are AlterMundi, Argentina; Rhizomatica, Mexico; Point of View, India; Social Media Exchange (SMEX), Lebanon; and Zenzeleni Networks, South Africa. Our new individual members are Renata Aquino, Brazil; Andrew… Read More
Building feminist futures at the AWID Forum The APC Women’s Rights Programme (WRP) put together a team of over 25 staff and members to participate in the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s “Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice” international forum held in Costa do Sauípe, Brazil in September. APC held a one-day pre-event to “Imagine a Feminist… Read More
Feminist Principles of the Internet 2.0 The collaboratively developed Feminist Principles of the Internet (FPIs) emerged from “Imagine a Feminist Internet” meetings that took place in Malaysia in 2014 and 2015 with diverse activists and advocates working in sexual rights, women’s rights, gender-based violence, and internet rights. Version 2.0 of the FPIs was launched in August 2016 on a new interactive… Read More