New GEM website in process
Dear GEM practitioners, partners, and colleagues,
we would like to inform you that the GEM website has changed a bit. You are now finding a simple site that we've provisionally uploaded for you. It is because we are working on a new site! This new site is planned to offer much more interactive and web 2.0 tools for our mutual learning, sharing, and showcasing your GEM projects. In the meantime, please find information on this temporary site.
If you have news to share, please don't hesitate to contact us! We will be delighted to publish it even on this temporary platform and later also transfer it to the new site.
Yours,
GEM Practitioners Network Coordinator
Lenka Simerska
lenka, Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 10:47Connecting gender, agriculture and the information society: GenARDIS kick-off workshop
Seven women and thirteen men from Anglophone and Francophone Africa
and the Caribbean met during the last days of September in Gorée
Island, Senegal. They have many things in common, but one in
particular is their ability to make innovative connections in gender,
agriculture and information and communication technologies (ICTs).
This ability has led them to be finalists of the Gender, Agricultural
and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) small
grants fund. As part of the workshop they also received training on
GEM teams in Latin America: Huaral, Peru
In Peru, CEPES, an APC member, is our partner. This organisation
is well-kwnon for its work in rural development. Part of their work
takes place in the valley of Huaral, 100 km from Lima, the capital
city where CEPES office is, where they have installed a network of 11
telecentres to serve the farmers and their families. Water is scarce
in this area, so farmers work together in order to supply water to
the whole valley. They have formed a Board of Irrigators and the
GEM teams in Latin America: Colombia
It is good to have GEM teams in several continents. You have already been introduced to the GEM team in Ugabytes, Uganda, and I want to introduce you now to the GEM teams in Colombia and Peru.
daphne, Friday, November 7, 2008 - 08:41GEM workshop in Ugabytes APC and UgaBYTES join forces to evaluate Gender and ICTs
This is an article published by Francis Mwathi, who works in Ugabytes, Kampala, Uganda, and is part of the GEM team that will work evaluating telecentres' work by using the Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM)
On the 6th of August 2008, Dafne Plou-
an APC facilitator on GEM with telecentres- touched down in Uganda on
a mission of evaluating how ICTs impact the community within gender
lines.
