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African women in the Information Society: seeing ICT through a gender lens/Femmes Africaines dans la Societe de l'Information: les tics vues a travers le genre.


"The gender movement in Africa needs to do a lot more to sensitise Verb 1. sensitise - cause to sense; make sensitive; "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"; "My tongue became sensitized to good wine"
sensitize
 policy makers on mainstreaming ICTs in National Policy". This was the main message by Aida Opoku-Mensah to participants concluding a 5-day workshop held in Addis-Ababa on "Strengthening the capacity of national machineries through the effective use of ICTs".

She called on gender activists and institutions working on gender empowerment issues to have a more concerted strategy for prioritising ICTs in the national development agenda and said "there is a need for gender-aware approaches to policies in sectors such as e-commerce and e-government frameworks to support the needs of those in the informal sector, who are often women".

Held from 10 to 14 January 2005, the workshop had for main aim to build the institutional capacity of information managers working for National Machineries for the Empowerment of Women to support gender equality and gender mainstreaming in the development frameworks of member States as outlined in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) organized the workshop in collaboration with ECA's Development Information Services Division (DISD DISD Dallas Independent School District ) and the African Centre for Gender and Development (ACGD ACGD Art of Computer Game Design (book title) ).

"So far, the participants have gone through quite a bit of ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT.

(2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL.

1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test.
 sensitisation Noun 1. sensitisation - the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen)
sensitization

irritation - (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation; "any food produced irritation of the stomach"
 throughout the training process," said a Technical Consultant, Ms. Jenny Radloff, referring to previous workshops held by UNDAW for National Machineries in other Anglophone and Francophone African countries.

"The combination of technical hands-on training in mailing lists and websites and the training on gender issues in the context of ICT policy makes the training exercise more complete and will help the Machineries to strengthen their national and regional networks and participation in ICT policy formulation and implementation processes."

Ms. Roselyn Odera, Chief, Gender Analysis Section of the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), noted that the outcomes of the meeting will contribute to the ongoing preparations for the World Summit on the Information Society The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a pair of United Nations-sponsored conferences about information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis.  (WSIS WSIS World Summit on the Information Society
WSIS Who Should I Start? (fantasy football)
WSIS Waste Stream Information Sheet
WSIS White Smoke Identification System (US Navy) 
), process, whose second phase will be held in Tunis later in the year, with a view to ensuring attention to gender perspectives and a focus on gender equality in Africa's emerging Information Society. Commenting on a presentation by DISD's Scan-ICT project which aims to assess the impact of ICTs in society and in development, she said "National Machineries have a key role to play to ensure that gender perspectives are taken into account in such analysis".

Eight English-speaking member States, namely, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda were represented.

Mercy Wambui Communication Officer, Economic Commission for Africa Noun 1. Economic Commission for Africa - the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of African nations  (ECA ECA

See: Export Credit Agency
) 17 January 2005

INFORMATION:

FEMMES AFRICAINES DANS LA SOCIETE DE L'INFORMATION

"Le mouvement de genre en Afrique doit travailler davantage pour sensibiliser les decideurs sur le besoin d'integrer les TIC dans les politiques nationales." Tel etait l'essentiel du message d'Aida Opoku-Mensah aux participants a l'issue d'un atelier de 5 jours tenu a Addis-Abeba sur le theme "Renforcer la capacite des mecanismes nationaux par une utilisation efficace des TIC."

Elle a appele les activistes et institutions travaillant sur les questions de la promotion du genre a avoir une strategie concertee sur la position prioritaire des TIC dans l'elaboration des programmes nationaux de developpement et a declare que des "approches qui tiennent compte du genre sont absolument necessaires dans les secteurs tels que les structures du commerce electronique et du gouvernement electronique pour repondre aux besoins des gens du secteur informel qui sont souvent des femmes".

L'atelier qui a eu lieu du 10 au 14 janvier 2005, avait pour objectif principal le renforcement des capacites institutionnelles chez les responsables de l'information travaillant dans les mecanismes nationaux de la promotion de la femme en vue d'appuyer l'egalite entre les sexes et l'ntegration du genre dans les cadres de developpement et d'appuyer des Etats membres tels que soulignes dans la Declaration et la Plateforme d'Action de Beijing. La Division de la promotion de la femme (DAW) de l'ONU a organise l'atelier en collaboration avec la Division des Services d'Information sur le Developpement de la CEA CEA carcinoembryonic antigen.

CEA
abbr.
carcinoembryonic antigen


CEA (Carcinoembryonic antigen) 
 (DSID DSID Data Set Identification
DSID Deployed Security Interdiction Device (US Marine Corps)
DSID Disposable Seismic Intrusion Detector
) et le Centre Africain pour le Genre et le Developpement (CAGD CAGD Computer-Aided Geometric Design
CAGD California Academy of General Dentistry
).

"Jusqu'ici, les participants ont ete suffisamment sensibilises aux TIC dans la cadre du processus de formation", a dit DIT

di-iodotyrosine.
 une Consultante technique, Mme Jenny Radloff, evoquant les ateliers precedents sur les Mecanismes nationaux qui se sont deroules sous les auspices de UNDAW dans d'autres pays africains anglophones et francophones. La combinaison de l'aspect pratique pra·tique  
n.
Clearance granted to a ship to proceed into port after compliance with health regulations or quarantine.



[French, from Old French practique, from Medieval Latin
 de la formation sur les listes de diffusion et les sites web avec la formation sur les questions de genre dans le contexte des politiques sur les TIC rend rend  
v. rent or rend·ed, rend·ing, rends

v.tr.
1. To tear or split apart or into pieces violently. See Synonyms at tear1.

2.
 l'exercice plus complet et aidera les mecanismes a renforcer leurs reseaux nationaux et regionaux ainsi que leur participation aux processus de formulation et de mise en ouvre des TIC."

Mme Roselyn Odera, Chef de la Section de l'Analyse de genre au sein de la Division de la Promotion de la Femme (DAW), a fait remarquer que les resultats de la reunion contribueront aux preparatifs en cours du Sommet mondial Mondial can refer to:
  • Mondial (amusement ride manufacturer), a Dutch manufacturer of amusement rides.
  • Mondial (motorcyle manufacturer), an Italian motorcycle manufacturer.
 sur la societe de Pinformation dont la deuxieme phase aura lieu a Tunis au cours de cette annee, afin d'attirer l'attention sur les approches de genre et de mettre l'accent sur l'egalite entre les sexes dans la societe de l'information naissante en Afrique. Reagissant sur une presentation du projet sur les TIC de DISD's Scan qui se propose d'evaluer l'impact des TIC sur la societe et dans le developpement, elle a declare : "les mecanismes nationaux ont un role cle a jouer pour ce qui est de veiller a ce que les perspectives de genre soient integrees dans ce genre d'analyses".

Huit Etats membres d'expression anglaise, a savoir l'Ethiopie, la Gambie, le Ghana, le Kenya, le Liberia, la Sierra Leone, le Soudan et l'Ouganda, etaient representes.

LES TICS VUES A TRAVERS LE GENRE Par Mercy Wambui, Responsable de la communication, Commission Economique pour l'Afrique (CEA) 17 janvier 2005
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