APC WNSP AND GKP GENDER AND ICT AWARDS Information and communications technologies (ICTs) play a growing role in the world's societies, and have the potential to help disadvantaged groups increase their participation in the civic, social, political, and economic processes critical to achieving change.
However, women - particularly women in developing countries - don't benefit from these new technologies, a reflection of the existing unequal power relations in societies as a whole. ICTs can be used to either exacerbate or transform unequal power relations. ICTs cannot create gender equality, or end poverty, but they can be tools for social action and positive social change. The APC WNSP and GKP Gender and ICT Awards aim to honor and bring international recognition to innovative and effective projects by women to use ICTs for the promotion of gender equality and/or women's empowerment. Specifically, the Awards' objectives are to: * Recognise gender and ICT initiatives globally and provide further impetus for others to mainstream gender in the field of ICTs for women's empowerment, and therefore support our advocacy work; * Provide a much-needed venue to recognise community-based or small-scale initiatives designed and implemented by women and women's organisations/networks; while providing recognition to larger scale but cost-effective multi-stakeholder initiatives; * Provide much needed opportunities to develop new collaborations/partnerships and opportunities for upscaling small-scale and community-based initiatives. * To increase the profile as well as knowledge and networking base of both APC-WNSP and GKP in the area of gender and ICTs. The awards are open to projects from all around the world. The Gender and ICT Awards will be launched, and winners will be showcased and celebrated, at a special event and venue parallel to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, Switzerland, from December 10-12, 2003. A prize of US$8,000 will be awarded to one winner in each of the following four categories: Outstanding Multi-stakeholder Initiative * Global/regional * National/local Outstanding Individual or Community-Based Initiative * Advocacy/Networking * Capacity building One representative from each of the 4 winning initiatives will be flown to Geneva for the awards celebrations in December. The Gender and ICT Awards are sponsored by APC Women's Networking Support Program (WNSP) and the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP). Submissions are open until: 20 September 2003 Further details: http://www.genderawards.net _______________________________________________ APCNews mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/apcnews ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** 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.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
