Every day tens of thousands of activists and organisations use APC networks for internal communications and public advocacy work. A human rights organisation in Guatemala posts an alert about the disappearance of a peace activist, including contact information for the relevant officials.
Readers worldwide lobby to bring attention to the activist's plight.
A coalition of fair trade organisations e-mails notices asking consumers to boycott companies using sweatshop labour and archives relevant information about the campaign on a WWW site. Grassroots organisations in Ecuador partner with APC to operate a community-based public Internet access centre. A team of women's organisations learns website skills and builds a clearinghouse of information for South African women. An AIDS research organisation in the United States puts a full-text database of bibliographies, abstracts and documents on a website for public access and searching. Environmentalists use a public mailing list to plan strategy and interventions for a UN climate change conference.