Cultural Diversity and Language

Tools discussed: Gender and ICTs in education and communication

Erika — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:28:18 +0100

“The use of ICTs encourages and promotes different teaching and learning methods that are proving to be practical, functional, participatory and adaptable”, confirmed Vera Vieira, NGO coordinator.

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Digital Citizen Indaba and Highway Africa

Sylvie75 — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:21:32 +0100

APC and APC Africa Women will be at Highway Africa 2007 this year with digital storytelling workshops, presentations on content, gender and ICTs, and the Take Back the Tech! Campaign.

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Challenges of content within the blogosphere in Africa

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:47:21 +0100

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.

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Making a good thing better: Adapting GEM to software localisation

editor — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:52:05 +0100

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."

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Media and ICT Caucus Statement at the Asia-Pacific High-Level Meeting on Beijing + 10

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:02:31 +0100

Media and ICT Caucus, APNGO Forum] - The Media and ICT Caucus wish to state from the outset our reaffirmation of the commitments of the BPFA and the Cairo Programme of Action, and their Plus 5 documents.

Women's infocom groups form Media and ICT Caucus, reaffirm Beijing Platform

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:54:43 +0100

The following is a report from the Asia-Pacific Women's Watch onsite report of the B+10 Intergovernmental High Level Meeting organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission of Asia Pacific. Daily reports from the HLM will be available through the APWW-mailing list, and will also be made available from the APNGO-Forum website at http://ap-ngo-forum.isiswomen.org

Women's infocom groups form Media and ICT Caucus, reaffirm Beijing Platform