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36-504: Esterhuysen may refer to: People [ edit ] Anriette Esterhuysen  (born 1953), South African computer networking pioneer and human rights defender Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen  (1912–2006), South African botanist Richard Grant Esterhuysen, real name of Richard E. Grant (born 1957), British-Swazi actor Science [ edit ] Botany [ edit ] Esterhuysenia , genus of flowering plants belonging to

72-413: A 16 days of activism against gender-based violence (25 Nov - 10 Dec), started in 2006. This campaign engages information and communication technology in helping end gender-based violence. APC joined Internet Governance Forum for the first time in 2008. A statement to IGF open consultations was submitted before the third IGF supporting regional IGF meetings and giving suggestions about themes and content of

108-560: A South African communications NGO, which itself was a merger of Worknet (a communications NGO and member of the Association for Progressive Communications ) and the Development Resources Center's Handsnet initiative. SANGONeT provided Internet connectivity, technical training, and website hosting to civil society organisations, trade unions, and others engaged in the mass democratic movement. In 1992-1993 she

144-583: A consultancy basis. The GEM manual was written in English and has been translated into French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Arabic). GEM was developed by the APC Women's Rights Programme (APC WRP Global Information Society Watch is an annual report co-produced by APC and Hivos , a Dutch organization for development, which looks at the progress being made in creating an inclusive information society worldwide (particularly in implementing World Summit on

180-400: A network of like-minded organisations working with information and alternative media. At this point they communicated mainly using fax and regular mail. People physically travelled around transporting and sharing databases of information and software on disks. In 1988, on the verge of APC creation, Mitra Ardron describes the central characteristic of the future APC user, present operations and

216-487: A part of promoting gender equality and empowering women . The APC Women's Networking Support Programme (APC - WNSP) co-coordinated a women's network to bring an NGO perspective to the UN Beijing +5 review. Official declarations promote ICT as a way of enhancing NGO participation in global media policy making. It also gives recommendations for women's portrayal, decision making and advocacy in media industry. APC made

252-619: A significant impact in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean by providing civil society organisations with email and e-information using the Fidonet gateways. Fidonet protocol was used because it is store-and-forward technology enabling people to compose and read email offline which is very important in the countries with the pour infrastructure (phone lines, electrical supply and hardware). APC's African networks faced with

288-830: A tool to design and evaluate their ICT policies. The eleventh face-to-face APC council meeting is held on Panglao Island in the Philippines, hosted by the Foundation for Media Alternatives . Over one hundred communications activists also attend a Networking and Learning Forum to strategise for an open, fair and sustainable internet. The second strategic plan was released defining five priorities for 2013–2016: securing and defending internet access and rights, fostering good internet governance, strengthening use and development of transformative technology, ending technology-based violence against women and girls and strengthening APC community networks. The realization of this plan included

324-399: Is a Giswatch book website. GISWatch editions by year: ActionApps offer a low cost solution for content sharing that both increases the functionality of not-for-profit and NGO websites , and facilitates the creation of portals sites so as to improve the visibility of civil society information. They are driven by free software . ActionApps were first developed by APC and released to

360-597: Is a human rights defender and computer networking pioneer from South Africa . She has pioneered the use of Internet and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to promote social justice in South Africa and throughout the world, focusing on affordable Internet access. She was the executive director of the Association for Progressive Communications from 2000 until April 2017, when she became APC's Director of Policy and Strategy. In November 2019 United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Esterhuysen to chair

396-903: The Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group . Esterhuysen holds a BA in Social Science, a Post Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Science and a BA in Musicology from the University of the Witwatersrand . During her university years, she was campus coordinator for the South African Student Press Union. In 1994, Anriette became the inaugural executive director of SANGONeT ,

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432-456: The Caribbean, forming an eighteen-country network connecting indigenous communities, rural backwaters and impulsing university networking courses, the first Feminist Tech Exchange, training people from 680 organisations in technology for social change and ICT policy from 2004-2008, organizing a press conference in Tunisia to address the host government's suppression of free speech in the wake of

468-562: The Information Society goals), encourages critical debate and strengthens networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. The country reports are easy to read and offer a quick insight into a country situation. Contributors are primarily from civil society organisations active in ICT issues in their countries. Themes covered include environment and ICTs, human rights and the internet and internet infrastructure. There

504-558: The UNCED secretariat published their information in APC conferences. They had no other way of distributing information so economically and so effectively. (The UN itself began distributing information by electronic means many years later). Email links are set up between Cuba and APC networks. They call the Cuban servers three times a day to deliver and collect email. The cooperation continues over

540-727: The Year in South Africa in 2012. She was inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a "Global Connector". In 2015, she was the winner of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ' s Pioneer Awards. Association for Progressive Communications APC is a worldwide network of social activists who use the internet to make the world a better place. APC is both a network and an organisation. APC members are groups working in their own countries to advance

576-594: The board officers, it also sets strategic priorities. APC board 2014–2016 was elected in Barcelona: The Gender Evaluation Methodology is an evaluation methodology that integrates a gender analysis into evaluations of initiatives that use information and communications technologies (ICTs) for social change. It is an evaluation tool for determining whether ICTs are really improving or worsening women’s lives and gender relations, as well as for promoting positive change at

612-692: The boards of the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative and Ungana-Afrika . Prior to joining APC Esterhuysen was executive director of South African Internet service provider member SANGONeT . Between 2002 and 2005, she was a member of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force . In 2017, Esterhuysen was appointed to the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace , and she served on

648-719: The commission until its successful conclusion in 2019, participating in the drafting of its eight norms related to non-aggression in cyberspace . In November 2019, Esterhuysen was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to serve as the chair of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group, the coordination body for the Internet Governance Forum She was one of five finalists for IT Personality of

684-541: The company Biwater and involved APC member LabourNet, April 1997. Thirteen APC members mirrored the threatened content. 2000 was a turning point for APC. The new vision statement drafted at an APC council meeting held in Piriapolis, Uruguay hosted by the Third World Institute ( ITeM ): "APC works to achieve a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of

720-399: The family Aizoaceae , named in honor of Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen Astronomy [ edit ] 11694 Esterhuysen , minor planet See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Esterhuysen All pages with titles containing Esterhuysen Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

756-472: The following: APC is governed by the board of directors which include an executive director, a chair, a vice-chair, a treasurer and any other officers elected by APC council. The executive officer is a past board member and all other officers are elected for a three-year term during APC council meeting. The council is made up of the two representatives from each member organization and it is a secondary governing body that meets every three years. Besides, electing

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792-491: The free and open source software community. Development continues strongly in South America. APC is awarding Chris Nicol free/libre open source software award (FLOSS or FOSS). The criteria and 2014 and 2007 winners are published. Beginning at 10.15 BST on Thursday 1 August 2013 GreenNet, and consequently APC, suffered an extensive DDoS attack . The attack was later described as a "DNS reflection attack" also known as

828-558: The history of APC precedents: PeaceNet, EcoNet and GreenNet. He also expresses a common commitment to global communication available to everyone. Collaboration between APC and the United Nations began in 1992, in preparation for the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), more popularly known as the Earth Summit . As APC had the only international, civil society communications network in existence at that time,

864-534: The individual, institutional, community and broader social levels. It was first developed in 2002 and was tried and tested by thirty community-based organisations. Since then hundreds of people have become involved in GEM's development including people who developed the tool, who train in how to use GEM, who are adapting GEM to increase its applicability to rural ICT4D projects, telecentres, software localisation and ICT policy advocacy and who are now offering GEM evaluations on

900-471: The internet to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies.". In May 2001, APC and partners started work on building a portal which collects training materials related to ICT for social change. This portal, named Itrain Online, is an entry point for finding the best computer training resources on the web for the social change and development. The first APC Internet Rights Charter

936-714: The meeting in Hyderabad. The first edition of Global Information Society Watch was published, focused on citizen participation in ICT policy processes in the wake of the World Summit on the Information Society . These reports are accessible yearly and are a joint initiative with the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation Hivos . The other activities included replication of the community wireless training developed in Africa in Latin America and

972-622: The same mission as APC. APC has more than 59 members, mostly in Asia, Africa and Latina America, from five continents. This is a challenge and a strength, because members are at the two extremes of internet development (members in South Korea with incredible connectivity and members in rural Nigeria where they have to power computers using car batteries and solar power) and in between. APC was founded in 1990 by: The activists working with United Nations–sponsored data management NGO (IDOC) create

1008-490: The second World Summit on the Information Society, launching GenderIT.org . APC priorities for 2009–2012 period were: advocate for affordable internet for all, make technology work to sustain environment, use emerging technology for social change, build collaborative open online space, secure and defend internet rights and improve internet and other governance. The strategic plan was realized by The Dominican government chooses APC's Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) as

1044-559: The strong competition from commercial providers, held an Africa Strategy Development Meeting from February 8–11, 1997 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The meeting attended 34 APC members and partner networks from all over Africa. The program areas, action framework and plan as well as women's program were discussed. A powerful statement from the meeting was published as The Holy Family Communiqué from African Electronic Communicators. A legal threat to freedom of information online came from

1080-483: The title Esterhuysen . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Esterhuysen&oldid=1137829802 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Anriette Esterhuysen Anriette Esterhuysen

1116-469: The years. APC received consultative status to the UN with the several quadrennial reports submitted over the years. APC also cooperated with United Nations Development Programme . APC actively participate in UN initiatives such as Millennium Development Goals . The studies of violence against women and ICTs in ten countries and how legislation or lack of it hinders or helps women were conducted and published as

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1152-715: Was Director of Information Services at South Africa's Development Resources Centre, where she set up a library and online news service for the NGO sector in South and Southern Africa, while mobilising information technologies to facilitate information and communication exchange in the broader development sector. Prior to that, she was Chief Librarian and consultant for the South African Council of Churches (SACC), where she facilitated training in documentation techniques and information management. From 1980 onwards, Esterhuysen

1188-605: Was active in the struggle against Apartheid . Through her work at the SACC, and with the Church becoming an important civil society space at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle, she saw the increasing importance of technology in accessing and sharing information. “In the late ‘80s, anti-apartheid groups, labour federations, environmental organisations and members of the green movement began using emerging communications technology to further their work in social justice and activism. It

1224-705: Was out of this development that APC was formed in 1990.” During the transition to democracy, Esterhuysen worked in promoting the use of ICTs to the emerging community of local NGOs. Esterhuysen currently chairs the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum . She is a founder of Women's Net in South Africa and has served on the Technical Advisory Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and on

1260-469: Was published in 2003 together with a tri-lingual ICT policy training for civil society curriculum which includes a special section on advocacy for positive policy change. APC stimulated multi-stakeholder dialogue as part of the Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa (CATIA) programme, and trained 100 technology enthusiasts in Africa to set up community wireless networks. Take Back The Tech! ,

1296-603: Was published in three languages: English, French and Spanish. The themes: internet access for all, freedom of expression and association, access to knowledge, shared learning and creation, privacy, governance and rights were addressed. APC started Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) in 2002. This project was launched to provide small grants for the agricultural initiatives by women. The access to new information and communication technologies affected rural men and women and improved agricultural production. The ICT policy handbook for beginners

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