Communication for influence (CILAC): Research and advocacy
The Andean region has some of the lowest fixed telephone line, mobile telephony and broadband penetration rates of all Latin America, the continent with the starkest economic disparities in the world.
View ArticleColombia: Communications Fund
Colnodo, Colombia’s AndinaTIC member, analysed the role of the country’s Communications Fund. The institution is part of the Ministry of Communications and administers the funds transferred by the...
View ArticleEcuador: Fund for the Development of Telecommunications in Rural and...
Universal Access Funds, in Ecuador as well as several other countries of the region, were created in response to liberalisation and privatisation policies of the telecommunications companies.
View ArticleVenezuela: Fund for Universal Service
This exploratory study, carried out by Funredes and EsLaRed, analyses the use of the Universal Service Fund (FSU-Fondo de Servicio Universal) in Venezuela.
View ArticleColombia: Social appropriation: The implementation of the new Compartel...
The action consisted of approaching the decision-makers for the Colombian government’s project to supply community internet access centres in schools, through which close to 1700 new telecentres will...
View ArticleEcuador: Inputs from civil society for the formulation of the Communication Law
The objective of this action was to include civil society’s perspective on the right to communication in Ecuador’s new communications law. This law, which should be approved in 2009, comes out of the...
View ArticlePeru: Public strategies for new technologies in rural areas
This advocacy action was carried out by CEPES, AndinaTIC member in Peru, compiling and systematizing documents on Peruvian government ICT projects.
View ArticleVenezuela: Analysis of the proposal for reforming the Telecommunications,...
Venezuela’s advocacy action was carried out by EsLaRed and Funredes, the country’s AndinaTIC members, and focused on analysing a proposed reform of the telecommunications, information technology and...
View ArticleBroadband
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View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: Improve participation, planning and allocation: APC's comments...
In April 2013, the South African government published their proposal for a national broadband policy with the aim of ensuring “universal service and access to reliable, affordable and secure broadband...
View ArticleEnding digital exclusion: Why the access divide persists and how to close it
In a new position paper from APC, we unpack the underlying causes of limited connectivity, analyse the shortcomings of current initiatives, and propose a set of policy responses to address the access...
View ArticleEnding digital exclusion: Why the access divide persists and how to close it
In a new position paper from APC, we unpack the underlying causes of limited connectivity, the shortcomings of current initiatives, and propose a set of policy responses to address the access gap....
View ArticleJoint submission to public consultation on Kenya's Revised National Broadband...
In response to a public consultation, APC joined Rhizomatica, the Internet Society, World Wide Web Foundation/Alliance for Affordable Internet, ARTICLE 19 Eastern Africa, Tunapanda Institute and Kenya...
View ArticlePeru: Fund for the Investment in Telecommunications
This document studies the case of the Telecommunications Investment Fund (FITEL), the Peruvian government agency that provides universal access to telecommunications in rural areas, privileging social...
View ArticleBroadband in the Andes: Alternatives to the free-market model
The Andean region has some of the lowest fixed telephone line, mobile telephony and broadband penetration rates of all Latin America, the continent with the starkest economic disparities in the world....
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