The Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE) is a project that was initiated in 2005 with an aim to provide context specific data on how women in Africa use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives, barriers that prevent them from accessing and utilisation of ICTs and how they surmount these barriers. With support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), GRACE evolved into an African network of Gender and ICT researchers involving 14 research teams in 12 different African countries including Uganda.

WOUGNET is localising the campaign in Uganda and all people interested in engaging with technology and the issue of violence against women may join the campaign and be part of the change!

Painting a wall by women activists and other fans on December 4, 2009, at 2:00pm at Wandegeya, Kampala

WOUGNET is localising the campaign in Uganda and all people interested in engaging with technology and the issue of violence against women may join the campaign and be part of the change!

The 2nd GEM Global Knowledge Sharing Exchange will bring together GEM adaptors in four thematic areas: localisation, telecentres, rural ICT for development, and ICT policy advocacy.

All over the world, internet and ICT users – especially girls and women – are invited to use technology to Take Back the Tech! and end violence against women.
http://www.takebackthetech.net

The Digital Storytelling Workshop planned for the Second GEM Global Exchange will bring GEM adaptors from all over the world together to share their stories of transformation using GEM.

The APC WNSP has proposed a session at the fourth gathering of the Internet Governace Forum to be held in Egypt this year. Entitled “Content regulation, surveillance and sexuality rights – Privacy, Agency & Security”.

The year 2010 marks the 15th year of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPFA). It has been half a generation since all member states of the United Nations agreed by consensus to act for Equality, Development and Peace in 12 critical areas of concern. The Asia Pacific NGO Forum highlights women NGO’s innovative and successful initiatives on the critical areas of concern of the BPFA as well as on UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and other human rights instruments.

A gathering of about 250 women from all over the Philippines will be held at Miriam College in Quezon City. The gathering will collectively assess gains, best practices and innovations, continuing and emerging challenges in implementing the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) in the Philippine setting. The resulting program of action will serve as an input to the Asia-Pacific NGO Forum on the Beijing Plus 15.

APC WNSP’s manager, Chat Garcia Ramilo, is a speaker in the session “Gender, Media and ICT”.

The Foundation for Media Alternatives, in partnership with the APC WNSP, is hosting this Round Table Discussion to talk about how ICTs introduce new facets to the problem of violence against women and girls in the Philippines and at the same time provide opportunities to help end violence.

The Round Table Discussion is one of the initiatives of the APC WNSP project “Strengthening women’s strategic use of ICTs to combat violence against women and girls”. The project is being implemented in 12 countries with the support of the Dutch government’s MDG3 Fund.

WOUGNET, in collaboration with the APC WNSP is implementing the “Strengthening Women’s Strategic Use of Information and Communications Technologies to Combat Violence against Women and Girls project” in Uganda. The project builds on the APC WNSP’s work on VAW and ICTs and is aimed at helping women participants negotiate the fraught terrain of the new digital landscape in which ICTs hold out both the promise of greatly increased freedoms and also the growing concerns about privacy and security.

As one of the 12 countries involved in the APC WNSP project “Strengthening Women’s Strategic Use of Information and Communications Technologies to Combat Violence against Women and Girls” supported by the MDG3 Fund, DRC will hold a national strategy workshop with representatives from women’s rights organisations working on issues of violence against women (VAW) to inform about the risks and opportunities that ICT represent for VAW and actions to end it.

El Taller Permanente de la Mujer en colaboración con PARM de APC llevará acabo una consulta nacional con más que 40 representantes de organizaciones de mujeres con trabajo en contra de la violencia hacía la mujer, para informar de los riesgos y oportunidades asociadas con el uso de las TIC en este tema de vital importancia para los derechos de las mujeres. Argentina es uno de 12 paises participando en el proyecto “Fortaleciendo el uso estratégico de las TIC por las mujeres para luchar contra la violencia hacia las mujeres y las niñas”, apoyado por el Fondo MDG3.

As one of the 12 countries involved in the APC WNSP project “Strengthening Women’s Strategic Use of Information and Communications Technologies to Combat Violence against Women and Girls” supported by the MDG3 Fund, Argentina will hold a National Consultation with more than 40 representatives from women’s rights organisations working on issues of violence against women (VAW) to inform about the risks and opportunities that ICT represent for VAW and actions to end it. The Consultation is organised by APC WNSP’s partner in Argentina, Carola Caride of the Taller Permanente de la Mujer.

GEM training workshop for telecentre facilitators and coordinators to be held in Bogotá, Colombia, as part of a gender sensitivity training. The workshop is organised by COLNODO, APC member in Colombia; the Universidad Autónoma de
Occidente based in Cali and the APC WNSP. After the workshop, telecentre staff will are expected to implement changes at local telecentres to address gender concerns.

El Intercambio Tecnológico Feminista reune a feministas de distintos paises en América Latina para debatir sobre feminismo y las tecnologías y capacitarse en nuevas herramientas TIC para su accionar feminista. Inspirado en parte por el primer Intercambio Tecnológico Feminista llevado acabo en Ciudad de Cabo en noviembre del 2008, este Intercambio se llevará acabo después del XI Encuentro Feminista de América Latina y el Caribe donde más que 1500 feministas se reunirán en la Ciudad de México.

The Latin American Feminist Technology Exchange brings together feminists from different countries throughout Latin America to discuss feminism and ICT, and to gain practical skills in new ICT tools to strengthen their feminist advocacy work. Inspired by the APC WNSP FTX in Cape Town in 2008, this FTX will take place after the 11th Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Gathering of more than 1500 feminists in Mexico City.

The International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development is both a conference and a call to action. The largest recurring event of its kind, the AWID Forum brings together women’s rights leaders and activists from around the world every three years to strategize, network, celebrate, and learn in a highly charged atmosphere that fosters deep discussions and sustained personal and professional growth.

For event updates, visit http://ftx.apcwomen.org

Are you passionate about building capacity of women in technology? Do you think that there are important connections between the human rights of women, women’s empowerment and ICT (information and communications technologies)? Have you ever wondered if there was a feminist practice of technology?

APC WNSP is organising the Feminist Tech Exchange together with AWID (Association of Women In Development) and local South African partner Women’sNet this November 10 – 12 in Cape Town.

What is the FTX?

The TRICALCAR Project – Weaving wireless community networks for Latin America and the Caribbean will hold it’s third and final workshop in Mexico. APC WNSP has developed a module on gender, community and ICTs

Financing for women’s equitable access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)

Key speakers:
Willie Currie, Association for Progressive Communication, South Africa/USA ; Mavic Cabrera-Balleza, International Women’s Tribune Centre, Philippines/USA; Ireen Dubel, HIVOS, Netherlands;
Radhika Lal, UNDP, USA;
Chair: Chat Garcia Ramilo, APC Women’s Networking Support Programme, Philippines

APC PARM participará en multiples eventos en relación con el Evento sobre el Futuro de GKP este año, incluyendo los pre-eventos sobre género y la sociedad de información, el cierre de la Campaña ¡Dominemos a la Tecnología! para el 2007 y aportes en paneles.  Además ofrecerá varios talleres, sobre evaluación de iniciativas en internet desde una perspectiva de género, con la herramienta GEM, capacitación técnica en herramientas de redes virales y políticas TIC.

APC WNSP will be participating in a myriad of events at GK3, the Global Knowledge Partnership’s Event on the Future this year, including the International Taskforce on Women and ICTs (ITF), the closing of this year’s Take Back the Tech! Campaign, workshops on ICT policy and GEM, as well as participating in GK3 panels.  Keep an eye out for further details!

El PARM de APC ofrecerá un taller sobre su Metodología de Evaluación desde una perspectiva de Género para iniciativas en internet con el apoyo de la Fundación Ciudadana, el Instituto de Mujeres y otras organizaciones. De parte del PARM de APC, Dafne Sabanes Plou, Coordinadora Regional en América Latina, junta con Assumpcio Guasch de Pangea y Espai de Dones darán el taller a funcionarios públicos y operadores de telecentros en la región.