[APCPress] New APC executive board

[Karen Higgs]

New APC executive board

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, January 24 2008 -- The Association for Progressive 
Communications (APC) is pleased to announce the new APC executive board 
elected by members at the APC council meeting in Rio de Janeiro in 
November 2007 for a three-year term.

Danilo Lujambio (chair), Argentina
Jan Moolman (vice-chair), South Africa
Andrew Garton (secretary), Australia
Magela Sigillito (treasurer), Uruguay
Al Alegre, Philippines
James Nguo, Kenya
Michel Lambert, Canada
Valentina Pellizzer, Bosnia-Herzegovina

APC thanks all outgoing board members, Olinca Marino, Mark Graham, 
Mihaly Bako, Danijela Babic, John Dada and Kong Sidaroth for their hard 
work since November 2005. We also thank former chair Natasha Primo who 
resigned in August 2007 in order to take a post with APC as national ICT 
policy advocacy coordinator. Mark Graham stepped in as acting chair from 
August to November. His leadership throughout the process of revising 
APC’s bylaws and preparing for as well as chairing the council meeting 
was indispensable.

The eight-person APC executive board works with staff to produce APC’s 
action plan and oversees and monitors implementation. They will meet 
with staff in South Africa in February 2008 to draft the action plan for 
2008-2012.

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