Europe Region
APC WNSP Europe has strong membership from Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.. WNSP members in the region consider priority ICT issues to include trafficking and violence against women, local content relevant for women, gender issues in national ICT policy, financial allocation and monitoring of ICT development funds.
Women into IT - the WNSP Partners with IBM
IBM aims to attract more women into the information technology field through a new project focused at high school girls and women, in collaboration with APC WNSP Europe. "Women into IT" features gender and IT awareness sessions, training, as well as public round table discussions, in the cities of Prague and Brno. The major drive of the initiative “Women into IT” is encouraging more women to get interested in information and computer technology as well as to examine the structural reasons for the existing gender gap in IT in the Czech Republic.
The project website, available in Czech, features women IT professionals' stories and dispels the myth that women aren't suited to science and technology careers.
More women into IT in the Czech Republic
WNSP gearing up for the European Feminist Forum in 2008
There are several affinity group discussions going on around ICT's in preparation for the European Feminist Forum. WNSP Europe has launched "Feminist Practice/s of Technology" and is keen to participate in debate and hands-on training at the EFF.
ICT and job flexibility: a solution for women's employment?
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
Interview with Malgorzata (Gosia) Tarasiewicz from NEWW - Polska
APC WNSP member Malgorzata (Gosia) Tarasiewicz from The Network of East-West-Women/ NEWW - Polska shares how she got involved with ICTs and the internet reality for women in Central Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, from her perspective as Executive Director of NEWW-Polska.
“Women should not only be users of ICT but really have an impact on the way they operate so that it is not women who adapt to the ICTs but the way ICTs are used is adapted to the needs of women.”
