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From: Shobita Parthasarathy <sp73@cornell.edu> Date: Wed Jun 4, 2003 7:50:23 AM US/Eastern To: STSGRAD-L@cornell.edu (STSGRAD-L) Subject: women in global science and technology Reply-To: sp73@cornell.edu
Women in Global Science and Technology would like to announce a new list:
ICTsforRuralWomen is an information and announcement list which circulates information on resources, events and organisations working on issues related to how women can use ICTs to support their grassroots productive enterprises.
Topics on the list include: - information on productive technologies to reduce the burden of domestic chores or increase the productivity and quality of their enterprises; - information on prices and markets and other forms of small enterprise support, such as training and product monitoring. -women's needs for appropriate technologies; - developing appropriate software packages and training women how to use them; - extension services and commerical producers to assist with translating information into action; - linking the use of ICTs with other communications strategies such as radio and church meetings to expand the outreach of information available; - monitoring impact of strategies for widespread replication of pilot projects; - documentation of best practices and packaging of results for policy makers, development practitioners and women themselves. - and many more.
To subscribe to the list, send a message to majordomo@matrix1.matrixlinks.ca with the following command in the body of your message:
subscribe ictforruralwomen your email address.
To circulate announcements and information on the list, send them to shuyer@wigsat.org.
David Lyon Director, The Surveillance Project Professor of Sociology http://qsilver.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance/intro.htm <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance/intro.htm> Coordinator, Graduate Studies web journal: Surveillance and Society Queen's University, www.surveillance-and-society.org <http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/> Kingston, Internet Studies at Queen's (IS@Q) Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 http://qsilver.queensu.ca/sociology/ISQ <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/sociology/ISQ> (613) 533-6000 x 74489 Research and Publications:
fax (613) 533-2871 http://qsilver.queensu.ca/sociology/dl.html <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/sociology/dl.html>
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