ICT Champions

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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Entrevue avec une membre d’APC-Femmes-Afrique: maurifemme.fr, plateforme d’informations pour les femmes mauritaniennes

Sylvie75 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:29:36 +0100

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).

Quelles sont les activités réalisées par votre organisation?

Interview avec une membre d’APC-Femmes-Afrique : « démystifier les TIC pour les femmes africaines »

Sylvie75 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:05:14 +0100

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.

IT and women – can they satisfy one another?

editor — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:10:20 +0000

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?

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Omolayo Samuel: Climbing above the stereotypes

editor — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:30:30 +0000

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...

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Interview with an AAW member

Sylvie75 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:55:56 +0100

Interview with Malgorzata (Gosia) Tarasiewicz from NEWW - Polska

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:43:02 +0100

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.”

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Profile of an ICT Champion: Sara Hlupekile Longwe

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:03:23 +0100

Sara Hlupekile Longwe is a Zambian, a grassroots mobiliser, critic and author of the Longwe Framework for Gender Analysis. She has contributed greatly towards the women's movement in Africa, as well as to the feminist movement globally. She sees herself as a radical feminist activist and she believes that ICTs can be used to win gender struggles in Africa.

Entrevista: el compromiso de ser ingeniera

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:56:11 +0100

Con motivo del día internacional de la Mujer, el equipo de comunicaciones de Colnodo realizó una entrevista a Lilian Chamorro, desarrolladora de proyectos web de la organización. Lilian es la única mujer que hace parte del equipo técnico de la organización. Es ingeniera en electrónica y telecomunicaciones y pertenece al Programa de Apoyo a las Redes de Mujeres de APC. Se ha destacado por ser capacitadora en herramientas de software libre en talleres nacionales y latinoamericanos.

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