Association for Progressive Communications
Association for Progressive Communications
Contents
Projects
- Take Back The Tech
- Online Violence Against Women
- GenderIT
- Global Information Security Watch - partnered with Hivos and International Development Research Centre
- May First / People Link - founded by Alfredo Lopez, board member of Center for Media Justice
- Internet Governance Forum
- Due Diligence Project
People
APC members in Global Information Society Watch
- Pablo Accuosto
- Henrik Almstrom
- Maud Barret Bertelloni
- Roxana Bassi
- Valeria Betancourt
- Deborah Brown
- Avri Doria
- Frederic Du Bois
- Anriette Esterhuysen
- Chat Garcia-Ramilo
- Alexandra Groome
- Mike Jensen
- Gayatri Khandhadai
- Joy Liddicoat
- Amy K. Mahan
- Liz Paton
- Carlos Rey-Moreno
- Erika Smith
2016 Board of Directors
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/943/943287156/943287156_201612_ 990.pdf
- Anriette Esterhuysen
- Julian Casasbuenas
- Valentina Pellizzer
- Liz Probert
- Osama Manzar
- Chim Manavy
- Joseph Gbolahan Dada
- Lillian Nawoga
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)
Funding
Financiers as of 2003[1]
- 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 <BF> West Africa, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), University of Maryland, and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
Relationships
APC was among the groups calling for Syria to release Bassel Khartabil. [1]
Email service for Renew America was managed by the Institute for Global Communic ations, a subsidiary of the APC. Renew America executive director Dale Didion employed Hussam A. Qutub, the communications director of Capital Guidance Corporation subsidiary Guidance Residential and PR manager for Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and Islamic Free Market Institute.
Notes
- The "takebackthetech.net" Foil is Owned by a High Powered NGO "Association for Progressive Communications" Which May be the Originator of "Online VAW" and has Deep Connections to the U.N
- The term cyberviolence may have been older than one might think. APC has been pushing it since 2005.
