Access. Rights. A Feminist Internet. Governance. Use and Development. Community. (Or FAIR and GUD-C, as I affectionately acronymised them for myself.) These are the pillars of APC’s strategic plan. These are the areas on which APC focused most intensely as it went about its work this year, of ensuring a free and open internet and a world that is more just, more equal. In every possible way.
But there’s one key letter missing from this big picture – T. This was a year of Transitioning. This was a hugely significant moment of transition for APC as its leadership changed hands.
I want to begin this introduction by doing two things. On behalf of our member network, I profusely and lovingly thank Anriette Esterhuysen, who stepped down as executive director this year, after growing APC from its modest roots to a global force that is loved, admired and respected. And on behalf of all of us, I open our collective arms to Chat Garcia Ramilo, APC’s new executive director, and give her a big, welcoming hug. May the force be with you, Chat!
I became the chair of the APC board halfway through the year at the global APC members’ meeting held in Ithala, South Africa, in August. Why did I run for the board elections? Mainly out of a sense of deep identification with APC. My work at Point of View, the non-profit I run in India, straddles three domains – gender, sexuality, technology – and I’m part of many movements. And part of the cracks and spaces in between these movements, always trying to connect the dots, just like APC does at the global level.
This intersectional lens was in full view in APC’s work on Governance this year, right from initiatives to build civil society capacities to participate in internet governance to the Internet Governance Forum itself. It was also in Use and Development, which enabled hundreds of activists all around the world to tell their stories digitally… and to remain digitally secure.
An organisation does not survive and grow for 25+ years without a lot of help, and a network does not thrive and flourish without growing membership. The APC Community has grown steadily over the years; at the end of 2017, we were 58 organisational members and 28 individual members active in 74 countries. And we’re still growing…
In closing this edition, I want to thank APC’s founders, staff, consultants, members and everyone else who has been or is part of APC, or who has supported our work in one way or another. Let’s continue changing the world… together.
Bishakha Datta
Chair of the APC Board of Directors
APC’s internal management transition in 2017 turned out to be a very smooth process thanks to the commitment from both our outgoing director, Anriette Esterhuysen, and our incoming director, Chat Garcia Ramilo.
These changes in the management of APC brought new approaches to the leadership of our programmes and new visions that will help us to continue being a vibrant organisation, one that is very well recognised globally for enabling people to access a free and open internet, improving their lives and creating a fairer world, as our mission states.
Throughout the year we were looking back to our roots, when most of our members focused on providing access to the internet to activists and organisations working for development, given that 50% of the world’s population is still not connected and most of them live in developing countries and in rural areas. This situation has led us to make a greater effort to put forward new initiatives to connect these communities by providing new solutions based on free and open source software and hardware that nowadays can provide a new opportunity to bring connectivity at an affordable cost.
APC members have been working for a very long time with grassroots organisations and we know first-hand about their difficulties in attaining reliable and affordable internet connections. They have been waiting for a long time to get connected by traditional commercial providers, which are denying them this access, arguing that it is not economically feasible to implement the infrastructure needed, especially in rural areas.
Deploying community networks is a new alternative for these communities that are still unconnected or underconnected. Experiences from APC members that have been implementing different models of community networks, like Rhizomatica in Mexico, Pangea in Catalonia, AlterMundi in Argentina and Zenzeleni in South Africa, are inspirational models where the communities operate their own networks and provide connectivity to themselves. They have both inspired and supported us in bringing these alternatives to other countries like Colombia, where my organisation, Colnodo, is replicating them in different scenarios in rural areas.These initiatives have raised new challenges, especially in relation to guaranteeing access to spectrum in order to carry out the deployment of these community networks. This is especially important for initiatives such as cellular community networks, where the spectrum is usually assigned to telecommunications companies that maintain a monopoly on communications without leaving space for these alternatives.
The work of APC and its members in this field has initiated high-level discussions to ensure that global policies recognise these initiatives as viable and reliable solutions to connect these communities.
Having APC as a platform to influence access-related policies is essential for connecting these communities and for other APC programmes to have a greater impact in these communities, which historically have been denied the benefits of connectivity.
Great challenges await us, but it is very satisfying for me to see the evolution of our organisation and network adapting to new challenges and continuing to work on providing people with a free and open internet for all.
Julián Casasbuenas G.
Former Chair of the APC Board of Directors from 2014 to 2017
2017 was a year of transition in APC. When APC’s former executive director Anriette Esterhuysen told APC’s management team that she was resigning, we couldn’t quite believe it. Over the last 16 years, Anriette had been the heart of APC, and it was difficult to imagine APC without her.
Anriette first joined APC when the Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT) – where she was executive director – became an APC member organisation in 1993. She was elected to APC’s board of directors as a representative of SANGONeT in 1997.
When Anriette was first appointed as APC’s executive director in 2000, there were five staff members. By 2017, we had 37 staff members living in 17 countries. In 2000, APC had 22 members organisations; in 2017, we had 58 organisational members active in 61 countries. On behalf of the APC staff, I’d like to thank Anriette for her leadership in shaping APC into the respected and influential global organisation and network that it is today.
Since I took over as executive director of APC, I have often been asked how I am finding this new position. Leadership change in any organisation creates uncertainty, so I focused my attention on two things that I felt provided continuity at a time of uncertainty and transition: the APC network and APC staff.
In August, we brought together all our organisational members and staff to talk about the network’s strategic direction, celebrate our collective work, and elect APC’s board of directors. Global meetings of APC members happen only every three years. During these meetings, APC members decide on the direction APC takes and the priorities we commit to as a network.
Our meeting in August 2017 was the 13th member meeting since APC was formed in 1990. We chose the elephant – revered for its strength, wisdom, longevity and cooperative spirit, values that embody the close-knit APC community – as the key element in the design of all the materials used for the meeting. This spirit was evident throughout the meeting, but two moments stood out me.
The first moment was hearing stories about the work of each APC member. We heard many inspiring stories and one story stuck with me. Arun of SPACE Kerala showed us emails from a severely autistic girl asking him questions about how the internet works. SPACE Kerala promotes open source software and undertakes digital literacy for poor communities in the state of Kerala in India.
The emails he showed us were written by the girl’s mother, who learned how to use email through SPACE Kerala’s work. Her daughter only communicates with her through touch – pressing into her mother’s skin to tell her something. The mother then translates this touch language into emails to Arun and vice versa. It was a powerful reminder of how access can make a profound difference in someone’s life.
The second moment happened on the last day of the meeting when APC members elected a new board of directors for a three-year term. The board of directors is APC’s primary governing body. It makes policy and management decisions, and works with the executive director and staff to implement APC’s strategic priorities. There were only seven positions open and 19 candidates from member organisations stood for the elections, ready to serve on the network’s board. To me, this was an indication of commitment and ownership on the part of our members. Not only does APC have a strong and competent new board, there are also 12 other member representatives who can step up when needed.
In 2017, the APC staff and management team also spent time together to work more on our internal organisational health. We started this process two years ago, and the leadership transition in APC created an opportunity and a sense of urgency to address our own challenges. We tackled work culture, workload, structures and processes, support and self-care, and agency and decision making. Our conversations were not easy, but we came out of them with a shared responsibility for sustaining an organisation with the energy and power needed to feel fulfilled and healthy in our work and to get us closer to the impact we want to make.
I am very proud of the contributions that the combined work of the APC staff and our members and partners have made this year in our priority areas: affordable and sustainable access, promotion of internet-related rights, creating a feminist internet, transparent and democratic internet governance, and building capacity among civil society organisations and human rights defenders in internet use and development. I invite you to read the stories in this report that make our work come to life.
APC’s year of transition has been a year of learning and change for all of us. We’ve had a good year, made possible by the spirit, hard work and commitment of the APC staff, the engagement of our members, the guidance of our board of directors, and the support of our partners.
I look forward to what next year brings.
Chat Garcia Ramilo
Executive Director of APC
All people have easy and affordable access to a free and open internet to improve their lives and create a more just world.
APC’s mission is to empower and support organisations, social movements and individuals in and through the use of ICTs to build strategic communities and initiatives for the purpose of making meaningful contributions to equitable human development, social justice, participatory political processes and environmental sustainability.
We believe that our mission is achieved through five interlinked strategies: research, advocacy, building networks and capacity, communications and outreach. To be instrumental to the APC community, research-based evidence must be communicated effectively in order to support advocacy, which then achieves change as its ultimate goal.
APC IN NUMBERS
104
events attended by APC staff during 2017 in almost 30 countries.
45
submissions and statements produced and/or signed by APC in 2017.
80
activists reached through four city conversations on the Feminist Principles of the Internet.
16
local campaigns in 11 countries organised as part of the 2017 Take Back the Tech! campaign on the histories of the movement to end gender-based violence.
130
human and women’s rights defenders, sexual rights activists, bloggers, journalists and teenage girls learned to be safe online through more than 13 training workshops organised by APC and its partners.
67
civil society organisations and actors from the global South engaged in internet governance processes through APC’s support.
26
national human rights institutions and members of the judiciary from over 15 countries in Africa gained understanding on how to protect and promote human rights online as a result of workshops organised by APC.
11
community networks and local access initiatives in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe received technical, policy/regulatory, economic and social support from APC.
41
civil society actors and human rights defenders in Latin America and Africa were trained by APC and its partners to effectively use regional and international human rights instruments.
21
research, advocacy and project grants were allocated to members in 2017 towards the implementation of APC’s strategic plan.
964,083
visits to apc.org in 2017 by more than half a million unique visitors.
MEMBER GRANTS
2017 was the second year of APC’s subgranting programme, implemented with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). These subgrants are aimed at enabling our member organisations to contribute towards achieving APC’s vision. Two types of grants were offered: project grants and research and campaigns grants.
The project grants are intended to contribute to the implementation of APC’s strategic plan at the national level, as well as to strengthen ongoing work of APC members that is linked to APC’s strategic priorities.
The campaign and research grants are for local activities that contribute to members’ advocacy work, and are also meant to enable members to participate in APC-wide campaigns.
With the funding provided by Sida, APC is currently supporting members until 2019. During the second year of the subgranting programme, our members have done incredible work. Check out the project grants implemented in 2017 here, and the campaign and research grants here.
APC SUBGRANTING PROGRAMME 2017
TOTAL: USD 273,986
- 10 project grants: USD 199,560
- 11 research and campaign grants: USD 54,806
- 28 GISWatch reports: USD 19,600
Project grants
up to USD 20,000:
USD 199,580
Research and
campaign grants
up to USD 5,000:
USD 54,806
OUR IMPACT
ACCESS
People who are digitally excluded on the basis of where they live, gender, class, disability or identity have affordable and sustainable connectivity that allows them to share and communicate.
RIGHTS
Human rights norms and standards integrate gender and development, and are respected and promoted in internet and ICT policy, governance, development and practice.
A FEMINIST INTERNET
Women’s rights and sexual rights activists engage with internet and ICT policy and development as feminist issues.
GOVERNANCE
Internet-related and ICT policy processes protect the publicness of the internet and are accessible, democratic, transparent, accountable and inclusive.
USE AND DEVELOPMENT
Civil society actors, women’s rights and sexual rights advocates have the capacity to confidently use the internet and ICTs, and engage critically in their development.
APC COMMUNITY
The APC community of members, allies and partners are strengthened as a network and work collaboratively to use the internet and ICTs for social and environmental justice, gender equality and sustainable development.
Individual member highlights
APC opened up membership to individual members in 2012, and was joined by seven that first year. By December 2017, there were 28 individual members in the APC network, from 25 countries. To learn more about, and from, our individual members, we asked them two questions:
What was the most important learning you got from the APC network during 2017?
What was the best technology-related reading you came across in 2017?
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Andrew Garton
Leonardo Maccari
Leonardo Maccari
Poncelet Ileleji
Poncelet Ileleji
Rafik Dammak
Rafik Dammak
William Drake
William Drake
PUBLICATIONS
Below are just a few of the many publications published by APC in 2017. For a comprehensive list see our 2017 Publications page.
“Let the mob do the job”: How proponents of hatred are threatening freedom of expression and religion online in Asia
A history of feminist engagement with development and digital technologies
Due diligence and accountability for online violence against women
EROTICS South Asia exploratory research: Sex, rights and the internet
Global Information Society Watch 2017 special edition: Unshackling expression – A study on laws criminalising expression online in Asia
Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
Human rights and the internet: The key role of national human rights institutions in protecting human rights in the digital age
The impact of the internet on human rights in Africa
MEMBERS
In 2017 APC had a total of 86 organisational and individual members.
Organisational
members
In 2017, APC had 58 organisational members active in 38 countries.
Individual members
In 2017, APC had 28 individual members in 25 countries.
Argentina
- Roxana Goldstein
Australia
- Andrew Garton
- Ian W. Peter
- Lisa Gye
Bangladesh
- AHM Bazlur Rahman
Brazil
- Renata Aquino Ribeiro
- Vera Vieira
Canada
- Stephane Couture
Colombia
- Mario Morales Rincón
Congo, Republic of
- Patience Luyeye
Czech Republic
- Jan Malík
Ethiopia
- Melaku Girma
Gambia
- Poncelet Ileleji
Germany
- Jeanette Hofmann
Guinea
- Serge Ziehi
India
- Japleen Pasricha
Italy
- Leonardo Maccari
Jordan
- Inam Ali
Malaysia
- Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Netherlands
- Rolf Kleef
Peru
- Eiko Kawamura
Senegal
- Makane Faye
South Africa
- Towela Nyirenda-Jere
Switzerland
- William Drake
Tunisia
- Rafik Dammak
Uganda
- Helen Nyinakiiza
United States
- Avri Doria
Zimbabwe
- Natasha Msonza
GOVERNANCE
Board of directors
Until August 2017
- Julián Casasbuenas, Colnodo, Colombia (chair)
- Valentina Pellizzer, One World Platform, Bosnia and Herzegovina (vice-chair)
- Liz Probert, GreenNet, United Kingdom (secretary)
- Osama Manzar, Digital Empowerment Foundation, India (treasurer)
- John Dada, Fantsuam Foundation, Nigeria
- Lillian Nalwoga, CIPESA, Uganda
- Anriette Esterhuysen, APC, South Africa (executive director)
New Board of Directors from August 2017
- Bishakha Datta, Point of View, India (chair)
- Leandro Navarro, Pangea, Spain (vice-chair)
- Liz Probert, GreenNet, United Kingdom (secretary)
- Sylvie Siyam, PROTEGE QV, Cameroon (treasurer)
- Michel Lambert, Alternatives, Canada
- Julián Casabuenas, Colnodo, Colombia
- Osama Manzar, Digital Empowerment Foundation, India
- Chat Garcia Ramilo, APC, Philippines (executive director)
Council representatives
7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement
Nadim Nashef
Rosalin Hussary
AlterMundi
Nicolás Echániz
Nicolás Pace
Alternatives
Michel Lambert
Catherine Pappas
Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN)
James Nguo
Asociación Trinidad Comunicación, Cultura y Desarrollo
Arturo Bregaglio
Mirian Sánchez
AZUR Développement
Sylvie Niombo
Victorine Diaboungana
Bangladesh Friendship Education Society (BFES)
Reza Salim
Tahmina Ferdousy
BlueLink.net
Pavel Antonov
Eva Stoyanova
Bytesforall, Bangladesh
Partha Sarker
Munir Hasan
Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD)
Yunusa Yau
Asabe Mohammed
Código Sur
Nikole Yanez Amaya
San Hoerth
Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
Lillian Nalwoga
Wairagala Wakabi
Colnodo
Julián Casasbuenas G.
Ariel Barbosa
Computer Aid International (CAI)
Keith Sonnet
Derechos Digitales
María Paz Canales
Vladimir Garay
Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
Osama Manzar
Shaifali Chikermane
EngageMedia
Andrew Lowenthal
Yerry Borang
eQualit.ie
Maja Romano
KheOps
Fantsuam Foundation
John Dada
Seyi Eseyin-Johnson
Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA)
Lisa Garcia
Alan G. Alegre
Fundació guifi.net
Roger Baig Viñas
Fundación Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes (EsLaRed)
Edmundo Vitale
Lourdes GdP
Fundación REDES para el Desarrollo Sostenible
José Eduardo Rojas
Miriam Rojas
GreenNet
Liz Probert
Cedric Knight
Instituto DEMOS
Anabella Rivera Godoy
Yesenia Sagastume
Intervozes
Veridiana Alimonti
Jonas Valente
Japan Computer Access for Empowerment (JCAFE)
Onoda Mitoye
JCA-NET
Hamada Tadahisa (Taratta)
Kéfir
N.
F.
Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet)
Grace Githaiga
Alice Munyua
Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet
Byoung-il Oh
Eun-jung Choi (Yaping Dyung)
LaborNet
Steve Zeltzer
OR
May First/People Link
Alfredo Lopez
Francia Gutierrez
Media Matters for Democracy (MmfD)
Sadaf Khan
Asad Baig
Metamorphosis Foundation
Bardhyl Jashari
Tamara Resavska
Motoon
Manal Hassan
Myanmar ICT for Development Organization (MIDO)
Htaike Htaike Aung
Yatanar Htun
Nodo TAU
Florencia Roveri
Eduardo Rodríguez
Núcleo de Pesquisas, Estudos e Formação (Nupef)
Carlos Alfonso
Oona Castro
One World Platform
Valida Hromadžić
Open Institute
Javier Sola
Pangea
Leandro Navarro
Lorena Merino
Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (EMPOWER)
Angela Kuga Thas
Serene Lim
Point of View
Bishakha Datta
Anja Kovacs
PROTEGE QV
Sylvie Siyam
Avis Momeni
Rhizomatica
Peter Bloom
Erick Huerta
Riseup
Elijah Sparrow
Danae Tapia
Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT)
Nthabeleng Mzizi
Kenneth Thlaka
Social Media Exchange (SMEX)
Jessica Dheere
Mohamad Najem
Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE)
Arun Madhavan Pillai
Raji P R
Strawberrynet Foundation
Rozi Bakó
Misi Bakó
Sulá Batsú
Kemly Camacho
Vivian Zuñiga
Thai Netizen Network
Arhit Suriyawongkul
Voices for Interactive Choice and Empowerment (VOICE)
Ahmed Swapan
Farjana Akter
Web Networks
Jared Jean
Greg MacKenzie
Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
Dorothy Okello
Moses Owiny
Women’sNet
Sharron Marco-Thyse
Tina Thiart
Zenzeleni Networks – Mankosi
Lwando Mdleleni
STAFF TEAM IN 2017
- Executive director: Anriette Esterhuysen, South Africa (until April)
- Executive director: Chat Garcia Ramilo, Philippines (from 17 April)
- Network and membership building coordinator: Karel Novotný, Czech Republic
- Sub-granting programme coordinator: Roxana Bassi, Argentina (May to December)
- Finance manager: Maya Sooka, South Africa
- Senior finance officer: Fatima Bhyat, South Africa
- Operations director: Karen Banks, Australia/United Kingdom (from 17 April)
- Logistics coordinator: Shawna Finnegan, Canada
- Administrative officer: Eunice Mwesigwa, South Africa
- Technical support assistant: Adolfo Dunayevich Garber, Mexico
- Technical specialist: Mallory Knodel, United States/Kenya
- Human resource and finance officer: Misty McWilliam, United States***
- Communications manager: Flavia Fascendini, Argentina
- Communications officer: Leila Nachawati Rego, Spain
- Language coordinator: Lori Nordstrom, Uruguay
- Publications and multimedia coordinator: Cathy Chen, India (from July)
- French editor: Olga Tsafack, United States (from March)***
- Director – Policy and Strategy: Anriette Esterhuysen, South Africa (17 April – December)
- Senior project coordinator – Global internet policy and advocacy: Deborah Brown (from March 2017)
- Avri Doria, United States*
- Maud Barret Bertelloni (June to December)**
- CIPP manager: Valeria Betancourt, Ecuador
- GISWatch editor: Alan Finlay, Argentina***
- GISWatch project coordinator: Roxana Bassi, Argentina
- IMPACT project coordinator: Gayatri Khandhadai, India
- IMPACT project assistant: Pavitra Ramanujam, India
- Internet access specialist: Mike Jensen, Brazil
- Africa ICT policy coordinator: Sekoetlane Jacob Phamodi, South Africa (until Octorber)
- Community access networks project coordinator: Carlos Rey-Moreno, South Africa (from August)
- Community access networks project administration and research assistant: Kathleen Diga, South Africa (from October)
- Senior project coordinator – Global internet policy and advocacy: Deborah Brown, United States (until March 2017)
- WRP manager: Jac sm Kee, Malaysia
- WRP global women’s rights policy lead: Janine Moolman, South Africa
- WRP capacity building lead: Jennifer Radloff, South Africa
- WRP knowledge building lead: Katerina Fialova, Czech Republic
- WRP TBTT Mexico coordinator: Erika Smith, Mexico
- GenderIT.org coordinator: Namita Aavriti, India
- GenderIT.org Spanish language coordinator: Dafne Plou, Argentina
- TBTT campaign coordinator: Sara Baker, United States
- Women’s rights project coordinator: Valentina Pellizzer, Bosnia and Herzegovinia
- Women’s rights project coordinator: Fungai Machirori, Zimbabwe (April to October)
- TBTT and evaluation intern: Chen Shaua Fui, Hungary (January to August)***
* Volunteer
** Intern
*** Consultant on retainer
FINANCES
Financial supporters
- AmplifyChange (agreement administered by Mannion Daniels Ltd.)
- Building EROTICS Networks in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
- Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Directorate of Development Cooperation (DGIS) FLOW II Fund via Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA)
- All Women Count!
- European Union, European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)
- Networking for freedom online and offline: Protecting freedom of information, expression and association on the internet in India, Malaysia and Pakistan
- Fidelity Charitable
- General support for APC Women’s Rights Programme 2016-2017
- Ford Foundation
- Support to research a feminist perspective on internet policy issues and build cross-movement collaboration with women’s rights groups in the global South
- Core support for internet rights and gender justice and institutional strengthening
- Regional Advocacy on Telecommunications Policy in the Americas
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- Community Access Networks: How to connect the next billion to the internet
- Mapping Gender and the Information Society
- Mama Cash
- Feminism and Technology: Politics and Safety
- Making a Feminist internet
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
- Core support for the APC Strategic Action Plan 2016-2019
- Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (WPF)
- General support for the APC Women’s Rights Programme 2017-2108
- Womanity Foundation
- Adapt Take Back The Tech! in Mexico: Challenge norms, build awareness, amplify collective power, strengthen response
- B-Change Technology
- Training workshop on online privacy and security
- EngageMedia
- Implementation of the Southeast Asia Digital Rights Camp – COCONET
- Institute of International Education (IIE) (Ford Foundation grant via IIE)
- Training workshop ahead of the Internet Governance Forum 2017 focused on the Universal Periodic Review, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the use of regional and global human rights instruments.
- Internet Policy Observatory
- Decriminalisation of expression online in Cambodia and Thailand
- iRights.info e.V. (BMZ project number 2016.0162.4)
- IGF Academy: Fostering freedom of expression through the creation of inclusive and transparent national internet governance and policy processes – Internet Governance Forum 2017 workshops
- South African Communications Forum
- African DNS Study
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Defining Internet Universality Indicators
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Gender and Justice Division
- Workshops on gender-based violence in social networks in Mexico
- Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID); Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice; Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA); FRIDA – The Young Feminist Fund; Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights (UAFWHR)
- Contribution towards participation for Making A Feminist Internet: Movement Building in a Digital Age, Malaysia
- Access Now
- Contribution towards Disco-tech during the Internet Governance Forum 2017
- Contribution towards African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG)
- ARTICLE 19
- Contribution towards Disco-tech Logistical Security Meeting during the Internet Governance Forum 2017
- Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)
- Contribution towards Global Information Society Watch 2017
- Facebook, Google, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Public Interest Registry
- Contribution towards African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG)
- African Union Commission; National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Egypt); New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Planning and Coordinating Agency; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Women’sNet
- Support to AfriSIG through direct sponsorship of specific costs
- IFEX
- Contribution towards Disco-tech during the Internet Governance Forum 2017
- Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF Asia)
- Contribution towards Global Information Society Watch 2017
- Internet Society (ISOC)
- Contribution towards African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG)
- Contribution towards Disco-tech during the Internet Governance Forum 2017
- Contribution towards Global Information Society Watch 2017
- Oak Foundation
- Discretionary small grant for the APC Women’s Rights Programme
- Small Media Foundation
- Contribution towards Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica), Johannesburg
- Editing and presentation of Advocacy Assembly course
APC financial statements for 2017
Balance Sheet at 31 December 2017 |
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2017(USD) | 2016(USD) | |
ASSETS | 1,120,644 | 1,291,397 |
Non-current assets | 2 | 2 |
Equipment | 2 | 2 |
Current assets | 1,120,642 | 1,291,395 |
Accounts receivable | 58,440 | 157,442 |
Accrued income – grants | 131,987 | 183,689 |
Cash and cash equivalents | 930,215 | 950,264 |
TOTAL ASSETS | 1,120,644 | 1,291,397 |
RESERVES AND LIABILITIES | 1,120,644 | 1,291,397 |
Reserves and sustainability funds | 385,236 | 477,429 |
Sustainability funds | 348,782 | 447,496 |
Retained income | 36,454 | 29,933 |
Current liabilities | 735,408 | 813,968 |
Accounts payable | 112,824 | 85,296 |
Deferred income from grants | 563,523 | 692,076 |
Provision for leave pay | 59,061 | 36,596 |
TOTAL RESERVES AND LIABILITIES | 1,120,644 | 1,291,397 |
Income Statement for the year ended 31 December 2017 |
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2017(USD) | 2016(USD) | |
INCOME | 3,098,712 | 2,696,117 |
Grants | 2,843,531 | 2,435,064 |
Earned Income | 255,181 | 261,053 |
Commissioned services, contributions and event income | 213,138 | 235,862 |
Interest | 324 | 333 |
Membership fees | 24,845 | 24,858 |
Sales and sundry | 16,874 | |
EXPENDITURE | 3,190,905 | 2,665,770 |
Governance, Programme Development, Monitoring and Evaluation and Administration | 668,467 | 464,112 |
Communications | 177,954 | 161,083 |
Technical Unit | 114,606 | 65,871 |
Network Development Unit | 351,468 | 403,618 |
Communications and Information Policy Programme | 897,762 | 1,268,278 |
Global Advocacy and Policy Strategy | 206,598 | |
Women’s Rights Programme | 774,051 | 302,808 |
SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) FOR THE YEAR | -92,193 | 30,347 |
Note: Detailed information is available in the audited financial statements for 2017.