Policy Advocacy

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 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.

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 APC WNSP will hold a panel on Openness at the second round of the IGF, debating solutions for balancing openness and security|safety concerns in the context of content regulation. In particular, it seeks to enhance engagement of intended beneficiaries & ‘vulnerable groups’ in negotiations concerning what constitutes illegal/harmful content, for whom, who should intervene at what type/level of harmful content and how. Central to this debate is the role of government and recognition that States have a duty to protect the rights of all to freedom of expression & information.

A Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender,
Development and Information Society Policies will be held on October
5-7, 2007 in Bangalore, India. The workshop is being co-organized by IT
for Change, the Association for Progressive Communications, the
International Women’s Tribune Centre, ISIS International-Manila, and
Gloria Bonder, the General Coordinator of the Regional UNESCO Chair
Women, Science and Technology in Latin America.The goal of the meeting
will be to a) conduct a gender analysis of the policy ecology of the

The workshop is being co-organized by IT for Change, the Association for Progressive Communications, the International Women’s Tribune Centre, ISIS International-Manila, and Gloria Bonder, the General Coordinator of the Regional UNESCO Chair Women, Science and Technology in Latin America.

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!