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Association for Progressive Communications

==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==

* [[Jac SM Kee]]
* [[Bishakha Datta]]
* [[Janine Moussa]]
* [[Willie Currie]]
* [[Mallory Knodel]]

===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[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Association_for_Progressive_Communications]

* [[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]]. <ref name="eff_bassel"/>

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==

* [https://np.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3o2q3g/the_takebackthetechnet_foil_is_owned_by_a_high/ 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]
* [https://np.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3o4cwm/socjus_the_term_cyberviolence_may_have_been_older/ The term ''cyberviolence'' may have been older than one might think. APC has been pushing it since 2005.]

==References==
<references>
<ref name="eff_bassel">EFF, [https://archive.is/e52ti Syria: Disclose Whereabouts of Detained Freedom of Expression Advocate]</ref>
</references>

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