Carlos Afonso delivers the opening speech at CSTD 16th session
Carlos Afonso of APC’s member organisation in Brazil, Núcleo de Pesquisas, Estudos e Formação (Nupef), delivers a compelling opening speech at the 16th session of the Commission on Science and...
View ArticleJoint statement on the Ten-year Review of Progress Made in the Implementation...
The Association for Progressive Communications, the International Federation of Library Associations and the Internet Democracy Project welcome the Commission on Science and Technology for Development...
View ArticleStatement: "We remain strongly committed to the goal of a people-centred,...
As civil society organisations committed to the goal of a “people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society”, APC, the International Federation of Library Associations and the...
View ArticleStatement on the occasion of the 18th session of the Commission on Science...
As civil society organisations, we remain strongly committed to the central WSIS goal of a “people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society where everyone can create, access,...
View ArticleLooking back to move ahead: A recap of the WSIS+10 Overall Review
The 2005 UN World Summit on the Information Society set the tone for global discussions on internet and society that continue to dominate the sector. At the end of 2015, the UN General Assembly is...
View ArticleAPC input for the CSTD WSIS Progress Report 2016
APC's inputs towards the elaboration of the annual report to the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) on the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
View ArticleCommunity networks recognised as an emerging topic in UN resolution on WSIS...
The need to include community networks as a solution to access gaps in the World Summit on the Information Society follow-up and implementation process was the main focus of APC’s participation at this...
View ArticleInside the Information Society: Fifteen years in fifteen minutes
David Souter's blog returns from its winter break with a review of the fifteen years since the World Summit on the Information Society - and how it should be viewed in future. Starting with this...
View ArticleInside the Digital Society: WSIS and the world today
In my keynote speech to the intersessional meeting of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development, I discuss how our progress reviews of the World Summit on the Information Society must...
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