Wireless Technologies
Let's work together: marketing tools for women farmers Tanzania's mountains
The women belong to the group TIAME, a farming group in the village of Peko-Misegese, in Morogoro. “TIAME” is the local language for “lets us work together”. This group produces various crops including vegetables, beans, sunflower and round potatoes but accessibility to market information is a big problem.
R U Ready 2 Talk? Keep your chats exactly that! New Campaign for South African girls
The “Keep your chats exactly that!” campaign aims to ensure that young people are empowered to use their cell phones and the Internet for positive self expression. The campaign was launched by Girls’Net, a daughter project of Women’sNet.
Feminist Tech Exchange
Posted July 28th, 2008 by ErikaFor 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?
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TRICALCAR Workshop - Weaving Community Wireless Networks in the Caribbean and Latin America
Posted February 5th, 2008 by editorThe 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
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Omolayo Samuel: Climbing above the stereotypes
Omolayo Samuel became a role model for women in ICT when she became the first woman to climb a communications tower in northern Nigeria, and quite likely even in the whole country, on August 1 of this year. She is a member of the Fantsuam Foundation’s ICT Department.
Read the full article on APC News: http://www.apc.org/en/news/gender/africa/omolayo-samuel-climbing-above-s…
Taller de Redes Inalambricas TRICALCAR
Posted October 5th, 2007 by ErikaProyecto TRICALCAR – Tejiendo redes inalámbricas comunitarias para América Latina y el Caribe / Región Conosur y Región México, Centroamérica y Caribe Hispano. El segundo taller de tres en la regi[on se ofrece para personas de Chile, Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay. APC PARM ha desarrollado un modulo sobre género, comunidad y las TIC para el taller, y las mujeres están especialmente invitadas a concursar.
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Wireless Networking Workshops in Latin America - TRICALCAR
Posted August 31st, 2007 by AnonymousTRICALCAR Project – Weaving wireless community networks for development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The second community wireless workshop will be held in conjunction with APC-member Nodo Tau in Rosario, Argentina. This workshop will train technicians from Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. A third workshop will be held in 2008 for the Central America and Mexico. The APC WNSP has developed a module on Gender, Communities and ICTs for the workshop, and women technicians were especially encouraged to apply.
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Capacitación del Proyecto TRICALCAR – Tejiendo redes inalámbricas comunitarias para América Latina y el Caribe / Región An
Posted April 18th, 2007 by ErikaEl primero de tres talleres en América Latina se llevará a cabo en valle de Chancay-Huaral, Perú del 16 al 21 de Julio de 2007.
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Proyecto TRICALCAR: mujeres tejiendo redes inalámbricas comunitarias en América Latina y el Caribe
Entre las actividades del proyecto se encuentra la realización de tres talleres, uno en Perú en julio de este año, otro en Argentina al finalizar el 2007 y finalmente otro en México a principios d
APC Africa Women Member Researches Women, Empowerment and ICTs in Africa
Kutoma Wakumuna, who is currently undertaking a PhD in Gender and Information Communication Technologies at Coventry University, is interviewed by Sylvie Niombo, APC Africa Women Co-coordinator.
Kutoma Wakumuna is a Zambian woman researching women and ICTs. She recently joined the APC Africa Women (AAW) network. She has published several research papers on gender and ICTs and also contributed to a case study for the “Women’s ICT-Based Enterprise for Development” project coordinated by the University of Manchester’s Institute for Development Policy and Management.
