Editorial.Civil society organisations, in particular women's non-governmental and community-based organisations have played an important advocacy role in advancing legislation, policies and mechanisms to ensure the promotion of women. They have also become catalysts for new approaches to development, Strategic networking Strategic Networks Strategic Networks play a major role in the overall Strategy Development Process. Strategic Networks need to be developed, managed and measured professionally and are responsible for successful executed strategies and strategic roadmaps. and information exchange through communications is critical to this advocacy role. The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) recognizes the need for relevant and timely strategic information to enhance African women's development, equality and human rights. In November 2002 FEMNET in partnership with the Association of Progressive Communications (APC (1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. ) Africa Women, Jicho Communication, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC Association Mondiale des Radiodiffuseurs Communautaires AMARC Aerospace Maintenance And Regeneration Center AMARC Automatic Message Accounting Recording Center AMARC Army Materiel Acquisition Review Committee ) Africa and International Press Service (IPS) conducted a five day workshop on participatory communication for advocacy, The workshop aimed at equipping East African Adj. 1. East African - of or relating to or located in East Africa women's organisations with the basic tenets of participatory communication and media techniques and to establish institutional capacity for use of participatory communications in the interest of consolidating a reliable communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. amongst African women's organisations. The workshop was the first one of five to be conducted in the region. It was an important process in the development of a participatory communications for advocacy training curriculum for African women's organisations and in the expansion of the existing framework for continental networking by introducing methodologies for participatory communications for advocacy as well as cheap, fast and user friendly communication technologies. Participants at the workshop observed that, despite the key role of communication in sustainable development, NGOs have not involved private and public media as responsible partners. They noted that content on gender and sustainable development is limited and that the information and messages conveyed are often not responsive to cultural contexts. Related to this is the isolation in which media networks are working, removed from other stakeholders such as organisations and networks working on gender, human rights, environment, agriculture and other sectors. The training of African women's organisations is therefore crucial for the sustained application of participatory communications for advocacy. The engagement of civil society organisations with media as encouraged through participatory communication, also has strategic importance in broader issues of governance. Another milestone event in communication and in particular Information Communication Technology (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. ) policy-making pol·i·cy·mak·ing or pol·i·cy-mak·ing n. High-level development of policy, especially official government policy. adj. Of, relating to, or involving the making of high-level policy: in Africa was an ICT policy workshop, which was organised by the APC, in Addis Ababa in November 2002. During the workshop, CSOs involved in communication in Africa met, shared views and experiences on the role of African civil society in ICT policy-making and outlined a plan of action to move forward on mobilising other organisations on ICT issues. Discussions during the workshop led to the formulation of an Action Plan and a statement on African civil society's engagement in ICT policy development. The Action Plan sets out a clear course of action for participants to engage in information sharing, lobbying at national and international levels particularly during 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) ) and the development of a cross regional information exchange for community radio organisations. EDITORIAL Des organisations de la Societe Civile, et surtout Sur`tout´ n. 1. A man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat. Noun 1. les organisations non gouvemementales feminines et celles des communautes de base, ont joue un role de plaidoyer important dans les progres des politiques ainsi que des mecanismes legislatifs permettant d'assurer la promotion de la femme. Elles ont aussi contribue a l'emergence de nouvelles approches de developpement. Une coordination strategique ainsi que le partage des informations sont cruciaux a ce role de plaidoyer. Le Reseau ré·seau or re·seau n. pl. réseaus or réseaux 1. A net or mesh foundation for lace. 2. Astronomy de Developpement et de Communications pour les Femmes Africaines (FEMNET) reconnait que l'information strategique qui soit appropriee et survenant a point nomme est absolument indispensable pour la promotion du developpement, de l'egalite et des droits de l'homme relatifs a la femme. En novembre 2002, FEMNET a organise, en collaboration avec le programme de l'Association des Communications Progressives (APC) pour la Femme, Jicho Communications, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) (l'Association Mondiale des Journalistes Radio), et Africa and International Press Service (Service de Presse International et pour l'Afrique), un atelier de formation sur la communication participative relative aux activites de sensibilisation. La visee de l'atelier etait d'equiper les femmes africaines issues des organisations africaines feminines d'elements essentiels en matiere de communication participative et des techniques de medias ainsi que d'etablir chez chez prep. At the home of; at or by. [French, from Old French, from Latin casa, cottage, hut.] chez prep at the home of [French] elles la capacite institutionnelle propre a l'utilisation de ces communications ; ces demarches permettent d'unifier un reseau de communications credible parmi les organisations des femmes africaines. Cet atelier etait le premier d'une serie de cinq ateliers prevus dans la region. Il a represente une methode importante en ce qu'il a abouti a l'elaboration d'un programme de formation des activites de sensibilisation pour les organisations des femmes africaines ainsi qu'a l'elargissement du cadre actuel de la coordination continentale par l'introduction de methodologies relatives a la communication participative. En outre ou·tré adj. Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre: "outré and affected stage antics" Michael Heaton. , gr&ce a l'atelier, des technologies de communications rapides, bon marche et d'utilisation facile ont aussi ete elargies. Les participants de l'atelier ont note que, malgre le role crucial que joue la communication dans le developpement durable, les ONG ONG Organisation Non Gouvernementale ONG Organización No Gubernamental ONG Organização Não-Governamental (Brazil) ONG Organizzazione Non Governativa (Italian) n'ont pas implique les medias prives et publics comme partenaires responsables. Ils ont souligne que la teneur relative au genre et developpement durable est insuffisante et que les messages et l'information transmis ne sont pas toujours relatifs aux contextes culturels. Dans cette meme perspective, il convient de mentionner l'isolation qui caracterise les methodes de travail TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing. 2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 Greenl. R. 460. 3. des reseaux mediatiques, ecartant les autres parties prenantes telles que les organisations et reseaux dont le travail est axe sur le genre, les droits de l'homme, l'environnement et d'autres secteurs. La formation des organisations feminines africaines est donc importante pour une application soutenue des communications participatives en vue des activites de sensibilisation. La collaboration entre des organisations de la societe civile et les medias, que les communications participatives encouragent, revete aussi un caractere important quant aux questions plus generales de gouvernance. L'atelier sur les Politiques des TIC organise par APC a Addis Abeba en novembre 2002 constitue un autre evenement majeur du domaine des communications et particulierement en matiere de formulation des politiques sur les Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (TIC) en Afrique. Durant cet atelier les OSC O.S.C. n. short for Order to Show Cause. (See: Order to Show Cause) dont le travail est axe dans les communications en Afrique se sont retrouvees, ont partage des opinions et des experiences sur le role de la Societe Civile Africaine dans la formulation des politiques des TIC, et ont elabore un plan d'action permettant d'aller en avant dans la mobilisation d'autres organisations sur les questions des TIC. Les debats effectues lors de l'atelier ont abouti a la formulation d'un plan d'action et d'une declaration sur la participation de la societe civile africaine dans l'elaboration des politiques relatives aux TIC. Le plan d'action definit une demarche dé·marche n. 1. A course of action; a maneuver. 2. A diplomatic representation or protest. 3. A statement or protest addressed by citizens to public authorities. a suivre claire concernant la participation des participants au partage d'informations, aux activites de sensibilisation au niveau national comme au niveau international, particulierement au Sommet Mondial Mondial can refer to:
SMSI Strong Metal-Support Interaction SMSI Simplified Message Service Interface ) et a l'elaborstion d'une echange d'information transversale pour les organisations de la radio communautaire. |
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