User profile

First name

Karen

Last name

Higgs

Country of residence

Uruguay

Extended profile

APC job title

Communications, media and promotions manager

Programmes/management systems

Communications, media and promotions

Bio

Karen Higgs is communications, media and promotions manager with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), a worldwide civil society network founded in 1990 promoting the use of internet for a more just world. Karen joined APC in 1999. Together with a small multilingual team, working virtually, she manages the APC.org website which provides key information on ICTs for development and social justice in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. She is editor-in-chief of the APCNews e-newsletter, which is also published in French and Spanish, and of APC's in-depth annual reports since 2000. Since 2002 she has coordinated two international awards - the APC Betinho Latin American and Hafkin Africa Communications Prizes. Karen is a board member for the Inter-American Institute on Disability and Inclusive Development (IIDI). Karen has worked in online communications for over a decade and joined APC in 1999. She lives in Uruguay though she's Welsh by birth. She has lived in Latin America for more than fifteen years and in addition to her life in APC, is a musician.