Especially relevant to NGOs are APC conferences, newsgroups, mailing lists, and the Gopher. These information sources are explained later in this section and in Part 1 of this handbook. It runs a large number of conferences on environmental sustainability, universal human rights and social and economic justice.
Conferences are participatory, and are networked to host computers in many developing countries.
A number of networks listed in the directory in Part 3 of this handbook are either APC members or make APC conferences available to their users. Bulletin Boards on Geonet affiliated networks These networks, mostly based in Europe, provide public bulletin boards on environmental sustainability, universal human rights, labor issues and social and economic justice. There are many special interest newsgroups in existence. The body of the message should include the text sub devel-l your name. The body of this message should include the text sub activ-l your name.