Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 17:52:25 -0400 From: "Sophia Huyer" <shuyer@wigsat.org> To: <wigsat-l@list.wigsat.org>, <global-l@list.ifias.ca> Subject: INSTRAW Virtual Seminar Series on Gender and ICT 8 June 2002 Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to inform you that INSTRAW has launched its research and networking project on Gender and ICTs. A special website, containing searchable database of resources, news and events, relevant links and information on the seminar series has been prepared to serve as a portal to this project. I would like to invite you to participate in the Virtual Seminar Series on Gender and ICTs which are meant to be forums for exchange of research based knowledge and information through discussions and background materials. Thy aim at highlighting good practices and lessons learned, identification of research and policy gaps, and outlining policy options and recommendations. The Virtual Seminars will result in Synthesis Paper, plus weekly summaries of discussions. The guest moderator to the seminar series is Sophia Huyer, Executive Director of Women in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT) and Executive Director of the Gender Advisory Board of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development. Background papers prepared by experts from different regions of the world will serve to stimulate the discussions: 1. Are ICTs Gender Neutral? Date: 1 12 July 2002 Backrgound paper: Is ICT gender-neutral? A gender analysis of six case studies of multi-donor ICT projects by Nancy Hafkin 2. Women and ICTs: Enabling and Disabling Environments. Date: 15-26 July 2002 Background paper: Cyberfeminist technological practices: Exploring possibilities for a women-centered design of technological environments by Radhika Gajala 3. Engendering Management and Regulation of ICTs. Date: 29 July 9 August 2002 Background paper: Engendering Management and Regulation of ICTs by Anita Anand and Apesh Uppal. 4. Empowering Women using ICTs. Date: 12 23 August 2002 Background paper: Empowering Women for Public Policy Advocacy: Looking Behind the Internet to Enable Citizen Information Systems by Juliana Martínez and Katherine Reilly 5. Bridging the Gender Digital Divide Date: 26 August 6 September 2002 Background paper: The Use of Information and Communication Technologies as a Tool to Bridge the Gender Digital Gap: A Case on the Use of a Locally-developed CD-Rom by Rural Women in Uganda by Rita Mijumbi To subscribe to the ICTNet, the listserv through which the Virtual Seminar Series will be held, send an email to ICTnet-request@un-instraw.org with the word "subscribe" in the subject line. For more information about this and the project in general go to INSTRAW website at http://un-instraw.org/en/research/gender_and_ict/ Looking forward to your participation in these discussions and your contribution to our understanding of the obstacles and opportunities that ICTs have for women worldwide. Tatjana Sikoska Officer-in-Charge INSTRAW ___________ Radhika Gajjala Bowling Green State University http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.org http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/4425/ "I am not erudite enough to be interdisciplinary, but I can break rules" - Spivak, 1999. "Just bear in mind, darling: Write Mortal. Think Witch" - Endora from "Bewitched" _____