The History of APC (A collection of feature articles)

A collection of feature articles produced for APC’s tenth anniversary of 2000.

Background articles on APC’s history include:

• APC’s first decade: A chronological look at APC’s history

• Enabling civil society participation in global policy-making: The APC and the United Nations

• Interdoc: the first international non-governmental computer network

• Mike Jensen and the code that stitched together the APC: The pre-internet days and early efforts at linking APC nodes

• Need and chance: APC in the Global South and the rise of some strong Southern members

• The Association for Progressive Communications and the networking of global civil society: APC at the 1992 Earth Summit

• The founding of APC: Coincidences and logical steps in global civil society networking

• Where do we go from here? APC after the internet explosion

• Women’s networks and ICTs: The character, achievements and challenges past and present of the APC Women’s Networking Support Programme.