Hafkin finalists

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has announced the six finalists of the first APC Africa Hafkin Prize. The USD$7,500 prize will be awarded on August 1st 2001 at the ACT (African Computing & Telecommunications) Summit in Johannesburg to the women-led, women-informed, and/or women-inspired initiative that has demonstrated outstanding creativity in the use of information and communications technologies (especially the Internet) in furthering development, mobilising participation and building capacity in Africa.