Policy Advocacy
Investigadora chilena destaca en documental internacional sobre Internet
Patricia Peña, activista a favor de software libre, políticas TIC que favorecen a la ciudadanía y el uso y desarrollo estratégico de las TIC por parte de las mujeres es entre las entrevistadas en un material audiovisual que presenta a los líderes y precursores del desarrollo digital en Chile.
La periodista, Patricia Peña, emigró recientemente al Centro de Investigaciones de la Inclusión Digital y la Sociedad del Conocimiento de la Universidad de La Frontera, para transformarse en parte fundamental de su Línea de Ciudadanía Digital.
National Women's Summit: Women's Self-Reliant Leadership in Times of Crises
Posted Octubre 17th, 2009 by editorA gathering of about 250 women from all over the Philippines will be held at Miriam College in Quezon City. The gathering will collectively assess gains, best practices and innovations, continuing and emerging challenges in implementing the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) in the Philippine setting. The resulting program of action will serve as an input to the Asia-Pacific NGO Forum on the Beijing Plus 15.
APC WNSP’s manager, Chat Garcia Ramilo, is a speaker in the session “Gender, Media and ICT”.
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Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing + 15: Weaving Wisdom, Confronting Crises, Forging the Future
Posted Octubre 15th, 2009 by editorThe year 2010 marks the 15th year of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPFA). It has been half a generation since all member states of the United Nations agreed by consensus to act for Equality, Development and Peace in 12 critical areas of concern. The Asia Pacific NGO Forum highlights women NGO’s innovative and successful initiatives on the critical areas of concern of the BPFA as well as on UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and other human rights instruments.
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ICT policy in the DRC: privacy protection at the forefront in the fight against impunity for perpetrators of violence
The participation of civil society organisations in the process of formulation of sectoral policies on information and communication technologies (ICTs) is still low and much moreso for women’s organisations. If this is an area where few have ventured, it is urgent today for women’s rights defenders to engage in ICT policy if they want answers to some questions; especially with regard to ending violence against women and girls.
IGF session: Content regulation, surveillance and sexuality rights - Privacy, Agency & Security
Posted Septiembre 9th, 2009 by editorThe APC WNSP has proposed a session at the fourth gathering of the Internet Governace Forum to be held in Egypt this year. Entitled “Content regulation, surveillance and sexuality rights – Privacy, Agency & Security”.
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Access to knowledge and gender - the latest edition from GenderIT
The latest edition of GenderIT looks at the question of access to knowledge focussing on Africa. Over the last century, copyright and patents legislation have penetrated into most countries. Strengthened by international trade agreements, and often pressure from the United States, this has had the impact of both shrinking the amount of knowledge that is freely available, and of legislating what is and is not ‘knowledge’. This has been happening at a time when it is becoming easier and cheaper to copy and transmit information.
Deadline Extended: Call for country partners - research on sexuality and the internet
The Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) is excited to announce a call for country research partners on the issue of sexuality and the internet.
Extended Application Deadline: 29 March 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 6 April 2009
International Governance Forum
Posted Octubre 4th, 2007 by AnonymousThe APC WNSP will hold a panel on Openness at the second round of the IGF, debating solutions for balancing openness and security|safety concerns in the context of content regulation. In particular, it seeks to enhance engagement of intended beneficiaries & ‘vulnerable groups’ in negotiations concerning what constitutes illegal/harmful content, for whom, who should intervene at what type/level of harmful content and how. Central to this debate is the role of government and recognition that States have a duty to protect the rights of all to freedom of expression & information.
Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender, Development and Information Society Policies
Posted Octubre 4th, 2007 by AnonymousA Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender,
Development and Information Society Policies will be held on October
5-7, 2007 in Bangalore, India. The workshop is being co-organized by IT
for Change, the Association for Progressive Communications, the
International Women’s Tribune Centre, ISIS International-Manila, and
Gloria Bonder, the General Coordinator of the Regional UNESCO Chair
Women, Science and Technology in Latin America.The goal of the meeting
will be to a) conduct a gender analysis of the policy ecology of the
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Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender, Development and Information Society Policies
Posted Octubre 3rd, 2007 by ErikaThe workshop is being co-organized by IT for Change, the Association for Progressive Communications, the International Women’s Tribune Centre, ISIS International-Manila, and Gloria Bonder, the General Coordinator of the Regional UNESCO Chair Women, Science and Technology in Latin America.
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