Members
APC-Africa-Women member Dorcas Muthoni wins Anita Borg Change Agent Award
Dorcas Muthoni, long-time APC-Africa-Women (AAW) member and trainer, has been recognized as an Anita Borg Change Agent. Muthoni's work in computer training and especially in promoting the use of free and open source software among African women certainly deserves high merits.
Des jeunes féministes réclament la liberté d’expression pour les femmes en République Démocratique du Congo – Entrevue avec une
Françoise Mukuku Mwamba Malale est coordonnatrice nationale de l’association Si Jeunesse Savait, basée à Kinshasa en République Démocratique du Congo. Au cours de cette entrevue, elle relève les actions menées par les jeunes féministes de République Démocratique du Congo dans le domaine des TIC.
Mujeres Empoderadas por la Tecnología: blogs, wikis, mashups - herramientas liberadoras
Al igual que en América Latina y el Caribe, en México se vive un clima generalizado de violencia contra el género femenino, donde seis de cada diez mujeres son víctimas de algún tipo de violencia física, sexual, económica, psicológica, o verbal.
El tema de género cada vez más presente en WALC 2007
"Existe la creencia de que las mujeres tenemos una relación lejana con la tecnología, pero ahora hay muchas iniciativas que están buscando la inclusión de la mujer en los proyectos que implican el uso de TICs", comentó Patricia Peña, co-instructora en el Track sobre Producción de Contenidos para el Desarrollo en el Taller de Tecnologías de Redes Internet para América Latina y El Caribe (WALC).
Interview with an AAW member
Challenges of content within the blogosphere in Africa
The issue of content production and representativeness is important within African news production. In her presentation at the 2007 Digital Citizen Indaba conference in Grahamstown on Sunday, the chairperson of LinuxChix in South Africa, Anna Badimo, highlighted the need for new approaches in African news production. APC Africa-Women co-coordinator Sylvie Niombo explained that content in the mainstream media ignores lived realities of women.
Las nuevas tecnologías: una mirada de género
Interview with Malgorzata (Gosia) Tarasiewicz from NEWW - Polska
APC WNSP member Malgorzata (Gosia) Tarasiewicz from The Network of East-West-Women/ NEWW - Polska shares how she got involved with ICTs and the internet reality for women in Central Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, from her perspective as Executive Director of NEWW-Polska.
“Women should not only be users of ICT but really have an impact on the way they operate so that it is not women who adapt to the ICTs but the way ICTs are used is adapted to the needs of women.”
checking website out as public
Public
I'm interested to write about TBTT, and to get some more information about the organisers of this initiative. Like what it does, whether it has dodgy politics, whether it's northern based, who leads it, what kinds of work does it do etc (halfway through I started losing my 'external but interested persona', and started becoming TBTT mother-hen..sorry! so this is a mixed up review between what i'd like to see as a public, and as a project coordinator)
layout:
- front page - ICT champion & tech tip maybe to move up before news? i might miss it if I'm not so keen on news (which I wouldn't be, unless I know the organisation and the people -- otherwise news is just news like every other site, but tech tip and champions are cool features!)
- "members" - members tool kit, maybe can be at the top? a kind of funky button? it gets lost at the bottom, esp if after all the names come in.
- "members" - like the right side bar, with login options and links to community spaces (flickr, social tagging etc)
- throughout - something feels a little weird about dynamic boxes being underneath static content (e.g. GEM: what's new is beneath what GEM is about).
