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 Women and ICTs
APC@GK3: Workshop on gender evaluation
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia,
-- On December 12 the APC will be organising the workshop “Gender Evaluation Methodology for ICT4D practitioners” at GK3, the third Global Knowledge Conference that is taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. - 12/09/2007
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The world wide web of desire: Content regulation on the internet
PRAGUE, Czech Republic,
-- 'Illegal' and 'harmful' content debates continue to be dominated by the issue of child pornography. While this perspective is important, its dominance overshadows other important aspects, that directly impact on women's lives and rights. This paper by Namita Malhotra brings in feminist perspective, which provides varied understandings of 'harmful content', as well as opens the question of adequate representation of all voices in the content regulations discussions. The paper also explores alternatives that can arise by transforming the paradigm of 'protection from harm' to the 'protection of fundamental freedoms to expression and information'. - 12/03/2007
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TAKE BACK THE TECH! Sixteen days of reclaiming technology to end violence against women
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
-- In Uganda, a SMS campaign called Speak out! Stand Out! is organised by WOUGNET to collect messages against violence against women... In Quebec, feminists and communication rights activists are creating short video clips and comic postcards to protest violence against women... In Malaysia, Burmese refugees are making online audio defending women's rights together with Centre for Independent Journalism... Find out how you can join in too... - 11/23/2007
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Information in Khmer about women's issues becomes available on the internet
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia,
-- The Open Institute – a Cambodian NGO - launched a Khmer language web portal on October 24 2007. It will give non-profits, the government, and other organisations working on women's issues in Cambodia easy access to legislation and latest developments related to women's issues. - 10/24/2007
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Omolayo Samuel: Climbing above the stereotypes
MAPUTO, Mozambique,
-- The 2007 Global Information Society Watch report identifies Nigeria as the fastest growing ICT market in Africa. Despite this, women remain severely under-represented among the country’s ICT professionals. And yet, one young woman in APC-member Fantsuam’s ICT department became a role model when she became the first woman to climb a communications tower in northern Nigeria on August 1 of this year. - 10/22/2007
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Breaking with tradition, African women dare to denounce violence through digital storytelling
DURBAN, South Africa,
-- Violence against women was the theme of a recent digital storytelling workshop organised by APC's programme in Africa and APC's South African member Women’sNet, held in Durban, South Africa from 25 to 29 August 2007. Seventeen women from throughout Africa gathered for one week to develop the skills to use technology for the creation of digital stories as a means of combating domestic, sexual and other forms of violence faced by African women. - 10/09/2007
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Mental gym at the GEM exchange
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia,
-- GEM speaks to people, said Sarah Earl, an evaluation specialist attending a workshop to improve what’s been coined as the Gender Evaluation Methodology. More than an evaluation theory, GEM "is a development theory," commented Earl who, along with over 40 ICT practitioners from around the world, took part in a training exchange in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the end of July 2007. Read the full account on APC WNSP. - 08/21/2007
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GLOBAL GEM WORKSHOP: ICT and development: The eyes we see the world through
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia,
-- Through evaluations we can measure to what extent our work is contributing our bit, our grain of sand, in the struggle for a better world. The APC women’s programme took this premise to heart when it developed the Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM). At the end of July women and men from around the world gathered in Kuala Lumpur to share their experiences with the use of GEM in particular and evaluations in general. One of the lessons learned was... - 08/16/2007
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GenARDIS engenders adoption of ICTs, finds freshly baked report
LAC-DROLET, Canada,
-- “This prize will be of great help to us in building our capacity to promote the rights of women farmers through the demystification of new ICTs, and through gender advocacy," said a GenARDIS participant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A couple of months down the road, the GenARDIS project has made much progress. An evaluation to assess the achievements of the GenARDIS grants carried out with grantees and honourable mentions in 2006 was just released. The report found that these small grants are making "important inroads in the ICT for development field" in African, Caribbean and the Pacific countries and "consciously encourage and engender the adoption and application of ICT."
Download the report summary (pdf, 417 kb), including key recommendations, or the entire report (pdf, 3.2 mb) from the GenARDIS website. - 07/11/2007
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APC POOL OF WRITERS: Two job announcements, one pool
BERLIN, Germany,
-- APCNews and GenderIT.org are building a pool of writers to contribute on a freelance basis. We are interested in working with writers from all continents. APC is a virtual network and in general most of our research and interviews are done online. Read the details and send your application before May 15, 2007. - 05/04/2007
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The GRACE research to hold new workshop, launch new website
BERLIN, Germany,
-- The Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE) is a research project that APCNews has been covering in the past. APC's women programme in Africa (AAW) also engaged with the project over the last months. But where is it at? Capacity building workshops were held in July 2005 and June 2006, with a third workshop planned for July 2007. Here is a short update on GRACE. - 04/02/2007
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30 March: Stop Cyberbullying Day
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-- Increasingly, harassment and stalking is happening in and through digital communications technology. As we gain access and use stuff like blogs, mobile phones, social networking platforms like Orkut and Friendster, personal information displayed and shared may be used in targeted harassment. - 03/29/2007
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Keeping track of what media's saying via African software
GOA, India,
-- The South Africa-based Media Monitoring Project has developed the first version of a software application which will eveluate gender-sensitivity in online media. "Media monitoring is relevant to all countries, both those with advanced and less advanced media sectors," claims project coordinator Sandra Roberts. - 03/05/2007
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Another world is not possible without women
NAIROBI, Kenya,
-- Another world is not possible without women who yesterday demanded for their rights at the ongoing World Social Forum in Nairobi. “We want our rights” chanted the women participating in the women’s rally organised by the Feminist Dialogue Coordinating Group. Over 500 people took part in the march around Kasarani Stadium. - 01/25/2007
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Gender and ICT Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Re-thinking ICT development through Gender
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
-- Lamija Kosovic examines the country's current ICTs situation in light of post-war reconstruction efforts, particularly to the need to integrate gender concerns by both the women's national machinery and civil society organisations. - 01/17/2007
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From the Olympus to the internet, a new network of journalists with a gender perspective
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay,
-- Artemisa is a Greek goddess that inspired two argentine communicators, Sanda Chaher and Sonia Santero, to promote the gender perspective in social communication. This “archetype" of the independent woman went from the Olympus to the internet through the Artemisa News portal. On November 16 and 17, Artemisa Communication organised the first national forum for journalists with a gender perspective in Argentina, during which the PAR network was formed. APCNews spoke to Sandra about this meeting where solidarity and empathy set the beat via e-mail. - 12/12/2006
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CAMPAIGN: Take back the tech!
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-- How many hours a day do you spend using some kind of ICT tool? Have you ever wondered how it connects with violence against women? Can things like mobile phones, webcams, blogs and videogames transform power relations between women and men? From 25 November to 10 December, APC Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) invites you to take back the tech! For 16 days, this campaign engages you to think about how your use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can work to eliminate, or perpetuate violence against women (VAW). - 11/23/2006
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When talking about gender and ICT comes down to earth
NEW YORK, United States,
-- Influencing gender and information and communication technology policies requires a lot of patience and perseverance. And above all, the conviction that it is possible to affect change. The women’s space from APC member Pangea has took on the arduous task of incorporating the topic into the Catalonian political agenda. - 09/05/2006
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Will women really benefit from the digital revolution?
DAKAR, Senegal,
-- The book “The Gender Digital Divide in Francophone Africa, a Harsh Reality” written by Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla has just been translated into English by APC, the Association for Progressive Communications. On this occasion, Sylvie Niombo, Deputy Coordinator of APC’s Africa-Women network, interviewed Marie-Helene on the content of the book. - 07/26/2006
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GRACE project: State of the research
WYNBERG, South Africa,
-- GRACE is a group of 14 research teams working in 12 African countries focusing on Gender Research in Africa into ICT’s for Empowerment, supported by a research grant from the International Development Research Centre of Canada. This two-year research project will be completed in September 2007. Read the full March 2007 update. - 06/06/2006
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