The APC helps people get access to the internet where there is none or where it's unaffordable. We help grassroots groups use the technology to develop their communities and further their rights, and we work to make sure that government policies related to information and communication serve the best interests of the general population, especially people living in developing countries.
Today, new advances in technology are creating new opportunities for accessing the internet. However, inadequate public policies to increase the prevalence and reach of these technologies have hindered their potential. There are still wide disparities in access, especially for those living at the economic and geographical margins of society, women, and persons with disabilities - making internet access both a regulatory issue and a rights one. This is why APC focuses on identifying new policy challenges that have implications for ensuring access to a free and open internet.
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is an important place for different stakeholders to come together to address common challenges, and build trust, to identify best practices and promote nuanced discussions. It provides a kind of “pressure relief valve” for some of the most controversial internet governance issues, allowing actors with quite radically different and often opposing views to come together in an environment that is in the main respectful and constructive.
At the IGF, we advocate for policies and regulatory approaches that ensure equitable and affordable access, freedom of information and expression, access to knowledge, public participation, human rights, capacity-building and a development agenda for internet governance. And we express our concern about the erosion and diminishing visibility of a rights-based approach to how the internet is governed.
We recognize that there is a need to strengthen spaces for collaboration between regional, sub regional and national IGFs, and to make sure that gender, sustainable development and human rights issues are incorporated in those discussions.

We participate and support regional Internet governance spaces such as the African IGF and the Latin American IGF to share knowledge and experiences between regions.
At the global level we've seen progress in inclusive, democratic, MS processes in the last decade or so. Progress is slow, but steady, with collaboration and trust growing among stakeholders. There is still more need to invest in capacity building to bring in more actors and to ensure that global processes are people -centric, rights,-driven, and address priorities that  are important to Africa.
APC priorities for the Africa IGF:
Promote a rights-based approach to internet governance: “The same rights that people have offline must also be protected online.”
Universal, fair, open and affordable access to the internet demands a rights-based approach to internet governance.
Promote transparency and accountability for all stakeholders in internet governance, in order to protect and promote human rights.
Promote multistakeholder participation, particularly the role of civil society organisations.
Promote enhanced cooperation among all stakeholders in internet governance.
Praise effective responses and prevention of technology related violence against women as a prerequisite for good governance and the full access and realization of internet rights.
Promote nuanced discussions that disrupts the notion that responding to technology -related violence against women and sexual rights activists conflicts with calls for free speech.

In conclusion, IGF as a space that is global, yet also shaped by local issues and voices. The Africa IGF is an important space for us share experiences, knowledge and advocate for people centered policies. ICTs facilitate development and how the post-2015 development framework needs to include key issues like access to information, infrastructure and respect for human rights.
“As Africans we care about the internet, and not only about getting access to it but we also care about how, and by whom, it is governed.”

For more info: www.apc.org

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