NEW GENDER AND ICT ONLINE DISCUSSION LIST CREATED BY WOMEN'S GROUPS

With barely two months to go before the Second Preparatory Committee Meeting for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in February 2003, more strategies are utilised by women's organisations to further hone the objectives and goals in relation to the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

The latest of these efforts is the new electronic mailing list called the , created by the WSIS NGO Gender Strategies Group, one of the groups strategising and organising their active participation in the WSIS process.

The WSIS NGO Gender Strategies Group was formed at the first WSIS PrepCom Meeting in Geneva in July 2002 as one of the sub-committees of the Civil Society Coordinating Group (CSCG). The groups involved in this effort are: the African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET), Agencia Latino Americana del Informacion, Association for Progressive Communication-Women's Networking Support Programme, International Women's Tribune Centre, and Isis International-Manila.

To build on the current initiatives on gender and ICTs and further enrich discussions for the benefit of all women, the mailing list will serve as a venue to:

Share information on the different activities around WSIS (including the regional and Preparatory Committee meetings, the 47th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the Asian Social Forum, the World Social Forum, the 8th International Congress of the World Association of Community Broadcasters (AMARC) and other discussion spaces on gender and ICT, particularly those pertaining to NGO women's initiatives
Develop women's lobbying positions and strategies around WSIS within the civil society formations and bring in the civil society inputs to the Gender Caucus discussions.
Share strategies, resources including documents, researches, and publications as well as regular updates from civil society organisations to ensure effective women's participation in civil society activities and NGO women's participation in the governmental and intergovernmental processes.
Create a platform for strategising and organising various forms of women's participation in the different gender and ICT forums.

For further information, please contact:

Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
Isis International-Manila
3 Marunong St. Barangay Central,
Quezon City, Philippines 1100
Tel: (63-2) 435 3405
Fax: (63-2) 924 1065
E-mail: mavic[AT]isiswomen[DOT]org

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