Women'sNet

Women'sNet

Women'sNet is a networking support programme designed to enableSouth African women to use the internet to find the people, issues, resources and tools needed for women's social action.

Issues

Some of the issues it has foccused on include [HIV/AIDS] , [http://www.unicef.org/beijing5/main.htm Beijing+5] in Africa, Women and Human Rights, Violence Against Women, Gender in Parliament, Health, Women and Information and communication technologies (ICTs), Women and Enterprise, and Women and Elections.

Resources

The [http://www.womensnet.org.za/ Women'sNet site] offers links to useful websites, a newsletter (launched in April 2006), links to relevant issues, and a directory of organisations.

History

In 1998, Women'sNet was established as a project of the Commission of Gender Equality and SANGONeT. In the following year, the first Women'sNet webpages went live, focusing on women and human rights issues in South Africa.

It also created the first online space for South African women to relfect on, and strategise, in the lead up to the 1999 national elections. In 1999 too, the African Sisters online workshop was held. Women'sNet collaborated with FEMNET to create an online platform for joining regional processes in the lead-up to the Beijing+5 conference.

2001 saw the creation of the first women-run internet cafe for civil society organisations at the [World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia and related Intolerances] , among other activities.

In 2000, Women'sNet launched a project to combine radio and audio production with women's NGOs efforts, to promote a women's empowerment agenda. It also won the Highway Africa ward for "Innovative Use of the New Media".

Other landmarks include SANGONeT Board's confirming Women'sNet's independent status (April 2002), its joining of the international ICT4D network the Association for Progressive Communications, being officially registered as a non-governmental organisation (Jan 2003), being a core partner in the first Africa-wide Women and Electronic Networking Training (WENT) in Cape Town (2003), launching an on-line up-datable database of South African organisations providing services targeted at girls (March 2003).

In 2004, it convened a stake-holders meet to consult South African women's NGOs on their information and technology needs; launched the [http://www.genderstats.org.za GenderStats] website, launching [http://womensnet.org.za/GirlsNet/ Girls'Net] , hosting the first African workshop on free software (or FLOSS) and implementing the Recording Women's Voices project.

Training, technology planning

Over the past two years (2005 and 2006), Women'sNet has also co-trained [South Africa] n women to participate in the global cyber-dialogues on the [Beijing+10] review process, and women's NGOs on technology planning and FLOSS. Girl'sNet runs a visual literacy training project with young girls in the Eastern Cape, and has held a photo exhibition in August 2005. Women'sNet also launched the (s)hebytes project and website as a space "where women and men talk about gender and women's empowerment". It launched digital story telling workshops "to train women and girls in story telling -- combining images, audio and text into a short documentary about their lives".

Honours

In 2005, Women'sNet's executive director [Natasha Primo] become the first women Chair of the [Association of Progressive Communicators] .

External links

* [http://www.womensnet.org.za/ Women'sNet, South Africa]
* [http://www.genderstats.org.za/ GenderStats]


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