On their path to achieving connectivity, community-led initiatives face very specific needs: the development of skills, access to financial support, and the existence of enabling policies and ...

¿De qué modo los miembros de APC mejoran la vida de sus comunidades? En esta columna, destacamos historias sobre el impacto y el cambio que nuestros miembros producen, con el apoyo del programa de ...

Many digital divides still persist today, to the point that a third of the world’s population is still offline. Different statistics also show that the divide can be worse depending on the countries ...

The content, language and knowledge of the internet and digital technologies continue to be dominated by white, male, private and global North interests, deepening the colonisation of knowledge in the ...

Membership in the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is open to organisations and individuals anywhere in the world that share APC’s mission: to build strategic communities and ...

This section is a space where APC's staff, members and readers can open up conversations on topics that are of interest for the ICT community. It is a space where authors get to be themselves – ...

The 29th session of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) just took place in April 2026. The UN CSTD is a subsidiary body of the United Nations Economic and Social Council ...

Sulá Batsú is a cooperative, founded in 2005, based on solidarity economy. It aims to encourage and strengthen local development by working with organisations, social enterprises, community networks ...

The APC WNSP began in the early 1990’s and is one of the strongest women’s Internet-based networks in the world. This article is based on texts from the Women in Sync Kit – a three-part publication on ...

We, the Net Rights Coalition (NRC), a network of digital rights actors, and all other signatories listed below, are appalled by the Government of Zambia’s unilateral announcement of the postponement ...

In 2026, the 14th edition of RightsCon is taking place in Lusaka, Zambia, from 5 to 8 May. This event is an important gathering space for the APC community, where we can come together to strengthen ...

The 14th edition of RightsCon will be hosted by Access Now in Lusaka, Zambia from 5 to 8 May 2026. RightsCon is a global summit that is civil society-led and brings together various stakeholders ...