AWID 2005: How does change happen?
APC WOMEN @ AWID BLOG
feminist mix with a tech fix
What women have to say
The APC WNSP promoted blogging at AWID - to share APC women's excitement and perspectives on events at this global feminist forum for those who could not attend, but also to encourage the use of different forms of technology among women at the event.
Our booth was open for all to learn about blogging, as well as other things we are passionate about: gender and ICT policy, awarding excellence in gender and ict, evaluation of ICT initiatives from a gender perspective.
Women's Media Pool
The APC WNSP is part of the Women's Media Pool, and provided coverage through the WNSP blog of AWID plenaries and workshops. Other news was published in the AWID website.
Radio FIRE is at the Fireplace again!
Listen to recorded sessions and live broadcasts of AWID plenaries.
APC WNSP Events during AWID 2005
- Thursday, October 27, 14:00 - 16:30
- Thursday, October 27, 17:00-18:30
- Thursday, October 27, 19:00 - 21:00
- Friday, October 28, 14:00-16:30
"Governing Digital Spaces: The Political Economy of the Information Society and Violence Against Women. "
The proliferation of new technologies over the world has built upon and perpetuated neo-liberal market ideologies. In the dominant discourse of the information society, markets are seen as the obvious instrument for the diffusion of new technologies, over-riding the private-public-community balance. Of course, this rides on capitalist globalisation that exacerbates global inequality. Further, this impacts the production and exchange of information in serving the global public interest. This interactive session will examine the ways in which the internet defies controls of legal/public institutions as understood through violence against women in/via digital spaces, and then articulates the need for alternative paradigms.
Jacklyn Kee, APC WNSP, Malaysia
Raijeli Nicole, ISIS
Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago, USA
Katerina Anfossi Gómez, Radio FIRE
Mavic Cabrera Belleza, IWTC
" What do the future of technologies have to do with women’s rights and social justice?"
This session will bring together the voices of activists, researchers and funders to discuss issues and problems as well as new opportunities related to new technologies that most of us couldn’t even imagine. From the emerging communications, to surveillance technologies, from nanotechnologies to biotechnologies this session will explore the gloom and doom scenarios as well as the potential for social change we might uncover in advances in science.
Chat Garcia Ramilo, Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP), Philippines
Jean Woo, International Development Research Centre, Canada
Niclas Hällström, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Sweden
"Gender and ICT Awards Ceremony and Knowledge-Sharing: Can ICT's help women's economic empowerment?" Ceremony to honor and meet the GICT Awards 2005 winning projects:
* Pallitathya Help-line (Call Centre for the Poor and Underprivileged)
* Putting ICTs in the Hands of the Poor
* eHomemakers
Winners and guest will deliberate the issue: "Can ICTs really help in women's economic empowerment?"
"MEASURING OUTCOMES: Using Gender Evaluation Methodology to Assess Information and Communication Technology Interventions"
Can an evaluation tool provide the means for determining whether ICTs are really improving women's lives and gender relations as well as promoting empowering change at the individual, institutional, community and broader social levels? During this interactive session, the multicultural and multilingual panel shares their learning from the field and their findings from the GEM used to measure the impact of different ICT initiatives around the world.
Chat Garcia Ramilo, APC WNSP, Philippines
Cheekay Cinco, APC WNSP, Philippines
Dafne Plou Sabanes, APC WNSP, Argentina
Jennifer Radloff, APC WNSP, South Africa
Lenka Simerska, APC WNSP, Czech Republic
