Strategic Use of ICTs

Blogs for African Women Project Gets Nigerian Women Hooked on Technology

Erika — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:20:44 +0100

APC Africa Women Member Wins Harambee Prize

Blogs for African Women (BAWo) has taken hold of the Nigerian blogging spirit to strengthen women's activism. Oreoluwa Somolu, BAWo's founder, sees blogging as a way to get women “hooked on technology”, and gain important skills for community and NGO leadership at the same time. Networking for Success, BAWo's second initiative getting women into the blogosphere, has just been awarded an Harambee Small Grant to increase BAWo's collaboration capacity.

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Paddling in Circles While the Waters Rise: Gender Issues in ICTs and Poverty Reduction

Erika — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:30:04 +0100

Can ICTs help reduce poverty? After so many decades of development theory and practices, why is poverty on the rise?

APC-Africa-Women member Dorcas Muthoni wins Anita Borg Change Agent Award

Erika — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:09:07 +0100

Dorcas Muthoni, long-time APC-Africa-Women (AAW) member and trainer, has been recognized as an Anita Borg Change Agent. Muthoni's work in computer training and especially in promoting the use of free and open source software among African women certainly deserves high merits.

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Take Back the Tech wins honorary mention from Prix Ars Electronica 2008

Erika — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:50:43 +0100

The Association for Progressive Communications Women's Programme is proud to announce that Take Back the Tech was awarded an honorary mention by the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica International Competition for Cyber Arts for its innovative, collaborative campaign to end violence against women.

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Annonce du 3e appel à candidatures de GenARDIS

Erika — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:20:44 +0100

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).

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Making a good thing better: Gender, Agriculture and the Information Society Small Grants

Erika — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:18:52 +0100

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) received an overwhelming response in its recent call for applications.

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Des jeunes féministes réclament la liberté d’expression pour les femmes en République Démocratique du Congo – Entrevue avec une

Sylvie75 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:16:27 +0100

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.

TRICALCAR Workshop - Weaving Community Wireless Networks in the Caribbean and Latin America

editor — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:34:04 +0000

The TRICALCAR Project - Weaving wireless community networks for Latin America and the Caribbean will hold it's third and final workshop in Mexico. APC WNSP has developed a module on gender, community and ICTs

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Mujeres Empoderadas por la Tecnología: blogs, wikis, mashups - herramientas liberadoras

editor — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:33:03 +0000

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.

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Taller de Redes Inalambricas TRICALCAR

Erika — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:43:19 +0100

Proyecto TRICALCAR – Tejiendo redes inalámbricas comunitarias para América Latina y el Caribe / Región Conosur y Región México, Centroamérica y Caribe Hispano. El segundo taller de tres en la regi[on se ofrece para personas de Chile, Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay. APC PARM ha desarrollado un modulo sobre género, comunidad y las TIC para el taller, y las mujeres están especialmente invitadas a concursar.

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