Women's involvement in the WSIS process (and related events) from May 2002 to December 2003 - Back

The following table maps the many meetings - both WSIS and other - in which women have partitipated which have made - or will make - input to the 'Draft Declaration and Action Plan' for the World Summit on the Information Society.

In addition to these 'face to face meetings' there have been several online consultations which have also fed into the process. Worth noting particularly are the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (UNDAW) and UN-INSTRAW (International Training and Research Institute for the Advancement of Women) online consultations

Where possible, we have included links to the important Gender inputs and outputs to and from the meetings

Date World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Commission on the status of women(CSW) and UN Division for Advancement of Women (UNDAW) NGO Meetings
   
May 2002 WSIS Regional Meeting Africa    
Gender Inputs: WSIS gender Caucus statements    
Output: Official African Regional Declaration English
French 		   
   
June 2002 ITU Gender Task Force Meetings    
Output:    
     
July 2002 Prepcom I    
Gender Inputs:
  • WSIS gender Caucus statements
  • Civil Society Plenary Draft Content and themes document
  • UNIFEM Statement by Joanne Sandler
  • Civil Society Plenary - Statement by Anne S Walker, IWTC
  • Extract of the report of the first session of the Inter-Agency network on women and gender equality
    		•    
    Output: Various Content and Themes Documents    
         
    September 2002 WSIS Content and Themes Meetings    
    Gender Inputs: Civil Society Plenary Draft Content and themes document English | French | Spanish    
    Output: Draft II Content and Themes Document
    English |French |Spanish |Arabic     		   
    October 2002 AWID Forum
    APC WNSP/IWTC WSIS Awareness raising through presentations
    GCNP Congress Forum
    WSIS Awareness raising through APC WNSP presentations
    Nov  WSIS Regional MeetingEurope UNDAW Expert Group Meetings
    'Gender and ICTs' and 'Women and media'    		  
    Gender Inputs:
  • Report from gender Roundtable
  • Report from Civil Society Roundtable
  • UNIFEM Statement by Osnat Lubrani
    		•   
    Output: Official European Regional Declaration
    		 EGM Reports
    Gender and ICTs
    Women and Media    		  
         
    December WSIS CALL FOR INPUT TO DRAFT DECLARATION AND ACTION PLAN    
    Gender Inputs
  • Gender Caucus Submission
  • Civil Society Coordinating Group Submission
  • Link to all submissions received
    		•   
    Output    
     
    January 8th 2003 WSIS Bureau Orientation Paper and Meeting Notes in preparation for Prepcom II
    		    
           
    Jan 12-14 
    Tokyo, Japan    		 NGO Side events at WSIS Regional Meeting Asia Pacific Asia Pacific Gender Forum
    Organised by APWINC, APC-WNSP and Japan Women's Watch (JAWW) in collaboration with Isis International-Manila, Hong Kong Federation of Women' s Cenres, IT for Change, NPO Coper, Korean Women's Development Institute, Campaign for Popular Media Reform, Centre for Women's Research, Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces.

    Onsite-Reports
    Where are the women in the Asia WSIS Meeting (Cheekay Cinco)
    Report from the Asia Gender Forum (Mavic Balleza)
       
    Jan 13-15 
    Tokyo, Japan    		 WSIS Regional Meeting Asia Pacific
    Gender Inputs: Statement from Asia Pacific Gender Forum    
    Output: Official Asia Pacific Regional Declaration    
       
    Jan 20-March 15 NGO Gender Strategies Working Group Online Discussion focussing on WSIS preparations, World Social Forum activities and preparations for the Commission on the status of women meetings/FONT>
    Gender Inputs:    
    Output:    
       
           
    Jan 23-29
    Porto Alegre, Brazil    		 World Social Forum   World Social Forum
    Gender and ICT space within larger Communication Rights Space
    - Gender and ICT Evaluation Methodology Workshops
    - Human Rights and Gender and ICT Issues session
    - Communication Rights in the Information Society session
         
    Jan 29-31
    Bavaro, Dominican Republic    		 WSIS Regional Meeting Latin America and the Carribean Gender Roundtable proposed
    Gender Inputs:    
    Output: Official Latin American Regional Declaration    
       
    Feb 17-28
    Geneva, Switzerland    		 WSIS PrepCom II    
    Gender Inputs: Proposal for multi-stakeholder Gender and ICT roundtable  
    Output:

    		Draft II: GLOBAL WSIS ACTION PLAN AND DECLARATION  
       
    Mar 4-13   Commission on the Status of Women - proposed ACPWNSP/IWTC activities
    - Gender and ICT CyberCafe
    - Training sessions in content management, strategic use of ICTs in redressing VAW, beginners guide to Gender and ICT policy, WSIS Process orientation
    - Proposal for a Donor roundtable with Gender and ICT advocates with a view to building a Gender and ICT advocacy network    		  
     
    September
    Geneva, Switzerland    		 PrepCom III
         
    December
    Geneva, Switzerland    		 World Summit