Un fonds de subvention pour traiter les questions de genre dans le domaine des technologies de l’information et de la communication pour l’agriculture et le développement rural en Afrique, dans les Caraïbes et le Pacifique (Pays ACP).

The GenARDIS Small Grants Fund to address Gender Issues in Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP Countries) has announced its Call for Applications.

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.

Fatma Mint Elkory est la présidente et également webmestre de NTIC & CITOYENNETE, une organisation non gouvernementale, apolitique, à but non-lucrative et qui existe depuis février 2001 en Mauritanie. Elle partage ici ses réalisations dans le domaine des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC).

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Gisèle Dovi, coordonnatrice de l’association Leadership pour l’Environnement et le Développement Durable, LEAD-Togo parle de son expérience avec les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) au cours d’une entrevue réalisée par Sylvie Niombo. co-coordonnatrice d’APC-Femmes-Afrique.

Gisèle Dovi travaille par ailleurs pour le Centre international pour la fertilité des sols et le développement agricole, soit en abrégé, IFDC.

Share your stories this International Women’s Day. Take Back The Tech invites you to listen, speak, recognise and remember.

To effect change, we need to understand the reality of violence against women.

The prevalence of violence against women means that chances are, all of us have encountered it in some way or another in our lives. Whether it’s our own personal experience, someone we know, a story we heard, or something we read.

Partagez vos histoires lors de cette journée internationale de la femme.

La campagne réapproprie-toi la technologie vous invite à écouter, parler, reconnaître et se souvenir.

Pour effectuer le changement, nous avons besoin de comprendre la réalité de la violence à l’égard des femmes.

Comparte tus experiencias y relatos en este día internacional de las mujeres. Dominemos la tecnología te invita a escuchar, hablar, reconocerte y recordar.

Para lograr un cambio necesitamos entender la realidad de la violencia hacia las mujeres.

La contundente realidad de la violencia hacia las mujeres hace que todas nosotras la hayamos encontrado o experimentado en algún momento de nuestras vidas, ya sea a través de nuestra propia experiencia, la de alguien que conocemos o de algo que escuchamos o leímos.

A recent conference on Women's Perspectives in the Labor Market in the Czech Republic touched on a sore nerve: does the job flexibility of ICTs facilitate women working, or does it enable women's exploitation? The panel on Women and IT brought together researchers, representatives from companies, internet and computer trainers, and women information technology (IT) specialists, all with varying views on this debate.

Flexibility

Have you just ended your maternity or parental leave? Have you been out of the labour market for a longer period? Have you just finished your degree? Are you interested in IT or want to try something new? Do you want to find out if IT could be an option?

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.

In Uganda, a SMS campaign called Speak out! Stand Out! is organised by WOUGNET to collect messages against violence against women

In Quebec, feminists and communication rights activists are creating short video clips and comic postcards to protest violence against women

In Malaysia, Burmese refugees are making online audio defending women's rights together with Centre for Independent Journalism

GenderIT.org's Feminist Talk features first-hand coverage of the Internet Governance Forum in Brazil November 12-15, where the Association for Progressive Communications emphasized issues of access, openness, civil society participation and content regulation.

El tercer día del Foro de Gobernanza de Internet se formó la Coalición Dinámica sobre Género y Gobernanza de Internet, impulsada por el PARM de APC, EMERGE-Centro de Pesquisa e Produção em Comunicação e Emergência of Fluminense Federal University in Brazil y IT for Change.

Este espacio busca asegurar que los principios de la equidad de género no queden al margen de los procesos de gobernanza de internet donde se discuten temas trascendentales para las mujeres tales como privacidad, regulación de contenidos, acceso, libertad de expresión, entre otros.

Conversaciones Feministas de GenderIT.org ofrece cobertura directa del Foro de Gobernanza de Internet en Brasil el 12 al 15 de noviembre, donde la Asociación para el Progreso en las Comunicaciones enfatiza temas de acceso, participación de la sociedad civil, y regulacion de contenido.

"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).

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...

¿La pornografía e internet van de la mano? Invitamos a una maratón de blogs sobre contenido dañino el 1 de noviembre de 2007.

¿Te preocupa la disponibilidad de materiales pornográficos en internet? ¿Consideras que es dañino? ¿O se trata de una expresión válida de fantasías y de formas de sexualidad alternativas?

¿Has sido agredida por contenido violento o explícitamente sexual a través de las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC)? ¿Cómo has reaccionado en tu uso de las TIC (internet, celular, etc.)?

Êtes-vous préoccupé par des contenus pornographiques sur internet?

Considérez-vous cela comme dommageable?

Ou est-ce une expression légitime de l’imaginaire et le reflet de diverses formes de sexualité?

Avez-vous été nui par du contenu sexuellement explicite et/ou violent véhiculé par des technologies de l’information et de la communication?

Comment avez-vous traité ceci dans votre propre usage de l’internet, du téléphone cellulaire, etc?

Pensez-vous que le gouvernement doit légiférer sur cette question?

Are you troubled by pornographic materials on the internet? Do you consider it damaging? Or is it a valid expression of fantasy or of diverse forms of sexualities? Have you been harmed by sexually explicit and/or violent content through information and communications technologies? How have you dealt with this in your own use of the internet, mobile phone etc.?

Violence against women was the theme of a recent digital storytelling workshop organised by APC-Africa-Women and Women’sNet, held in Durban, South Africa from 25 to 29 August 2007. APC-Africa-Women is the African regional programme of the Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP), an international network of women who support women’s networking for social change and women’s empowerment through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Training people to use GEM (Gender Evaluation Methodology) is always a challenge. There are lots of expectations about the results of this training. For the trainer, the usual finding is that evaluators very seldom take a gender perspective into account when planning a project or considering its results, unless they work in a gender unit or in a project that is already committed to women´s issues or related to equity goals.

Kristin Palitza of Agenda Magazine was the chair of a discussion panel on gender and the media today, September 11 2007, in Grahamstown, South Africa. Unlike most of the other panels at Highway Africa, this one lined up three women and no man. A mistake, by some participants’ standards but certainly a colourful and rather critical one in an event where only 15 out of 55 speakers are women.

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.

Entre risas y sorpresas las participantes de una capacitación llevada a cabo por Colnodo, miembro de APC en Colombia, intercambiaron visiones, prejuicios y certezas sobre el rol de las mujeres frente a la tecnología.

The Gender Evaluation Methodology for internet and ICTs (GEM) changes the way development projects look at gender, project planning and achievements. Sana Gul, from the PAN Localization Project says GEM "transformed our entire concept of when and where gender should be taken into consideration."

"I never knew technology could be so useful to transform ones life until after the 5 day workshop on 'Digital Story Telling'. Seriously there was more to this than just telling a story." - Participant WENT 2007

Women came with their stories from Zimbabwe, Congo, Mali, Gambia, Kenya, Uganda, Brazil, and South Africa.

APC Africa Women in partnership with Women'sNet hosted this year's Women's Electronic Networking Training for women who document - as content developers, librarians, archivists, journalists, mediators, translators, information activists - the lives of women affected by violence in Africa.

Women developed short videos reflecting their experiences as women documenters. The group examined the power dimensions of story telling and how to retain authenticity of voice - one's own and those of the people whose stories are being documented, preserved or disseminated.

Information has become a powerful weapon that can be manipulated during times of conflict. This was seen again in central Africa between 1993 and 1994, as revealed by Sylvie Niombo of APC-Africa-Women in her analysis of the work, The media and conflicts in Central Africa, edited by Marie-Soleil Frère and published in 2007 by the Panos Institute of Paris.

In summary, the book The media and conflicts in central Africa has the merit of providing detailed information on the role of the media in times of conflict and social crisis, and identifying deterrents to freedom of expression. In this latest search for professionalism, journalists need support to redress the situation. The public, tired of partisan and extremist media, tend much more towards impartial and “messianic” types of media, supposed to restore hope. However, our analysis of the book showed up insufficient information on the electronic press. A single case of action against the electronic press was mentioned in the book. Then, the influence of numerous partisan websites, which have been created especially by those in exile or the diaspora, whose reality is not covered by the book.

Are male and female journalists affected differently by repression and conflicts? Is there a feminist press in times of conflict? What are the weaknesses of women’s professional associations? With regard to the contribution by international organisations to the media sector, have there been any gender considerations? These are interesting issues which could have been looked into.

GEM speaks to people, said Sarah Earl, an evaluation specialist attending a workshop to improve what’s been coined as the Gender Evaluation Methodology. More than an evaluation theory, GEM "is a development theory," commented Earl from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. "It [indicates the] stand on gender, women and technology, participation, women's equality, development,” added the senior programme officer at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

GEM se dirige a la gente, declaró Sarah Earl, una especialista en evaluación que participó en un taller para mejorar lo que se conoce como Metodología de evaluación de género (GEM). Más que una teoría sobre evaluación, GEM “es una teoría del desarrollo”, comentó Earl, desde Kuala Lumpur, Malasia, donde a a fines de julio se llevó a cabo un intercambio mundial de capacitación.