Association for Progressive Communications - Women's Networking Support Programme
 
Acronym: 
APC WNSP
 
Address: 
PO Box 29755
Melville 2109
South Africa
 
 
 
Year Created: 
1993
Civil Society Organization
Lobby-advocacy
Infrastructure creation/management
Media content creation/distribution
Research
Education
Monitoring
Global, Regional, National
 

Thematic Areas

Physical (cables, wires, spectrum), Logical (code, software, standards), Hardware (consumer devices)
Internet
Community/Citizens
Access, Inclusion and Participation, Diversity and Pluralism, Information, Communication and Expression Rights, Social Justice & Democracy
Content, Uses
Development, Gender
 
Specific Themes: 
Women's Rights
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Violence against Women
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ICT4D
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Gender&Media
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Freedom of Information
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Equal Opportunities
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Empowerment
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Communication Rights
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Access to knowledge
Specific Themes: 
Access to Information
 

Mission

Promote gender equity in the design, development, implementation, and use of information and communication technologies - with special focus on inequities based on women's social or ethnic background - through the provision of research, training, information, and support activities in the field of ICT policy, skills-sharing in the access and use of ICT, and women's network-building.

 
 

External Membership

 
 
Created by: Renzo D'Angelo