Dear Barbara and All, One simple, yet exciting use of ICT for women was by UNIFEM. We worked with them to run a Virtual Working Group, End-Violence, which ran for a year and drew thousands of members from more than 120 countries, all involved in work to end violence against women. End-violence helped local organisations share cases, "lessons learned," tools (like training programs), and successful strategies, and facilitated collaboration. We were thrilled by the power of the discussion, and the value it had for small organisations in the South working to end violence against women. Clearly, this kind of impact could not have been achieved without ICT. Members of the Working Group from Southern organisations described its importance for them, e.g.:
>From Bangladesh: "I believe End-violence has been not only for me but also for many women's activists in this world a media of communication and exchanging information, views, ideas with and seeking support, suggestions from each other. In my view End-violence contributed to strengthen women's movement and activism worldwide. It gives us a forum for discussing our issues, sharing concerns and supporting each other." >From Venezuela: "Here in Venezuela we have a lot of victims (every 14 days a women dies for Domestic Violence and we do not have a good support to prevent those crimes) every day we become more conscious ?The End-violence Working Group is very important to awake consciousness and provide alternatives." >From South Africa: End-violence has provided endless amount of information on how to assist in the combating of Violence Against Women & Children...so that other countries like mine, with the same problems can implement these projects into their own country. Many End-violence members said they used the materials, which they got from the Working Group, in their own local activities. They also developed collaborations with other organisations that went beyond the Working Group. Thus, this kind of knowledge sharing makes a major, concrete contribution of action on the ground. Best regards, janice Janice Brodman Director Center for Innovative Technologies EDC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Barbara Fillip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to document uses of ICTs by disenfranchised groups, with a > focus on applications that are meant to "help them help themselves". I'm > looking for projects that specifically focus on women, children/youth, > the disabled, ex-combatants, child soldiers, refugees and internally > displaced persons (IDPs), ethnic/language minorities, very isolated > populations (not just rural populations), urban poor.... ------------ ***GKD is an initiative of the Global Knowledge Partnership*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.globalknowledge.org>
