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The Fourth World Conference on Women The United Nations convened the Fourth World Conference on Women on September 4-15, 1995 in Beijing, China. Delegates had prepared a Platform for Action that aimed at achieving greater equality and opportunity for women.  in Beijing in 1995 is generally regarded as a major watershed in realising the power of information communication technologies as a tool that women could use for mobilisation, information exchange, and empowerment. One of the striking aspects of the conference was the discussion on women's advocacy around communication and media policy. The conference also became an important opportunity to raise awareness about the urgency of broadening media and communication advocacy to include the new dimension relating to relating to relate prepconcernant

relating to relate prepbezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc 
 ICTs. The lobbying effort of women's organisations along with the support of some governments resulted in bringing a broader focus on ICTs into the Beijing Platform for Action. The conference was also the first international conference, which included women and the media among its 12 critical areas of concern.

The virtual community that developed around Beijing created an international electronic network of women's organisations that still exists and continues to expand. Prior to that, there had been a growing number of women and women's organisations eager to debate, formulate proposals and take action on ICTs. However, despite the evidence that access to ICTs is becoming a key development issue, few governments have shown interest in taking it up as a key concern. Recent international policy documents have recognised the gender implications of newICTs and called for mobilisation and enhancing and developing women's skills, knowledge, use of and access to ICTs as a major challenge of the Information Society.

Most recently, resolution 73 of the International Telecommunications Union See ITU.

(body, standard) International Telecommunications Union - (ITU) ITU-T, the telecommunication standardisation sector of ITU, is responsible for making technical recommendations about telephone and data (including fax) communications systems for PTTs and suppliers.
 resolved to instruct the ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks.  secretary general to place the question of holding a 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.  on the agenda of the United Nations System's Chief Executive Board for coordination. There was positive reaction to the proposal and it was decided that the 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) 
 would be held in two phases. The UN general assembly resolution 56/183 describes the purpose of the WSIS as the development of a common vision and understanding of the information society and the adaptation of a declaration and plan of action. The objective of the WSIS is to formulate a common vision and understanding of the global information society. It is also regarded as an effective means to assist the UN in fulfilling the goals of the Millennium Declaration. The Summit will be held in two phases: Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland
Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva.
 2003, and Tunis in 2005, preceded by preparatory meetings--the first of which was held in Geneva from July 1-5, 2002 and the second in February 2003. Resolution 56/183 also encouraged contributions from all relevant UN bodies and intergovernmental organisations, including international and regional institutions, non-governmental organisations, civil society and the private sector to contribute to and actively participate in the preparatory process of the summit and the summit itself.

Women's groups and gender and 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.
 advocates have been working tirelessly since the WSIS process began, beginning with the regional preparations. During the African preparatory conference, which was held in Bamako in May 2002, the WSIS Gender Caucus was established with the aim of developing a women's position and lobby strategy in the WSIS process. The Caucus is a multi stakeholder group consisting of women and men from national governments, civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations, the private sector and the UN system.

The WSIS NGO NGO
abbr.
nongovernmental organization

Noun 1. NGO - an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government
nongovernmental organization
 Gender Strategies Working Group was formed at the first WSIS Preparatory Committee meeting in Geneva in July 2002 as one of the sub-committees of the Civil Society Coordinating Group (CSCG CSCG Circularly Symmetric Complex Gaussian
CSCG Casey Strategic Consulting Group
CSCG College Saint-Charles Garnier
CSCG Communications Security Control Group
CSCG Communication System Control Group
). The Group is a formation of women's information and communication organisations that have come together to develop strategies for gender advocacy within the WSIS context. This group is distinct from, though aligned to, the WSIS Gender Caucus. Organisations currently involved in this effort are: the African Women's Development and Communications Network, Agencia Latino Americana de Informacion, the Association for Progressive Communication-Women's Networking Support Programme, the International Women's Tribune Centre and Isis International-Manila. The Working Group is open to all NGOs and individuals interested in gender issues and the information society.

Many gender and ICT policy advocates recently attended the second Preparatory Committee meeting of the WSIS and the UN Commission on the Status of women Noun 1. Commission on the Status of Women - the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies  session held in March, in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
. The themes of this years CSW CSW Commission on the Status of Women
CSW Christian Solidarity Worldwide
CSW Clinical Social Worker
CSW College of the Southwest (New Mexico)
CSW Cambridge SoundWorks (audio manufacturer) 
 session were Women, Media and ICTs and the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against women. Both meetings were significant as women rallied around the issues of media and ICTs. The Group worked diligently to ensure that gender concerns and advocacies were incorporated into the WSIS draft Declaration and Action Plan and the conclusions of 47th CSW session on women, media and ICTs.

As most African countries have little agreed policy on ICTs, the WSIS presents an opportunity for African women to advocate and lobby to ensure that appropriate regulation and policies are put in place, which redress current gender imbalances and ensure that the right to communicate is a prerequisite of the information age we live in.

FEMNET dedicates this issue of Our Rights to the lobbying documents which have been produced by the NGO Gender Strategies Group as part of the efforts to engender the WSIS process. We hope that it will be a useful tool for continued advocacy for gender sensitive ICT policies in the region.

FEMNET is a founding member of the NGO Gender Strategies Working Group

La quatrieme conference mondiale des femmes qui a eu lieu a Pekin Pekin (pē`kĭn), city (1990 pop. 32,254), seat of Tazewell co., central Ill., a port on the Illinois River; inc. 1839. A processing, rail, and shipping point in a grain, livestock, and dairying area, Pekin has a large food industry.  en 1995 est generalement consideree comme un tournant decisif dans la decouverte des nouvelles technologies de I'information et de la communication (TIC). En effet, l'utilite de ces technologies s'impose dans les travaux de mobilisation, d'echanges d'informations et de la promotion des femmes. La conference a aussi ete une occasion majeure de sensibiliser l'opinion publique internationale sur l'urgente necessite d'elargir la portee du plaidoyer sur les medias et I'information pour y inclure la nouvelle dimension des TIC. L'effort de lobby des organisations des femmes, ainsi que l'appui de certains gouvernements, ont suscite un interest plus elargi des TIC dans la plate-forme d'action de Pekin. TIC dans la plateforme d'action de Pekin. Par ailleurs, la conference a ete le premier forum de ce genre a inscrire la question femmes et medias dans ses douze domaines d'action prioritaires.

La communaute virtuelle qui s'est developpee autour de la Conference de Beijing a consiste en un reseau ré·seau or re·seau  
n. pl. réseaus or réseaux
1. A net or mesh foundation for lace.

2. Astronomy
 electronique international d'organisations de femmes qui existe encore et ne cesse de s'agrandir. Avant cela, il y avait un nombre sans cesse croissant de femmes et d'organisations feminines tres soucieuses de debattre, de formuler des propositions et d'initier des actions sur les TIC. Mais malgre l'evidence du fait que l'acces aux TIC est desormais desormais essentielle au developpement, peu de gouvernements ont manifeste de l'interet a en faire l'une de leurs preoccupations principales. Ces dernieres annees, au niveau international, certains documents politiques ont reconnu l'impact des TIC sur la promotion de TIC sur la promotion de l'egalite de genre, et appele a la mobilisation, au renforcement et au developpement des aptitudes et connaissances des femmes, de l'usage et de l'acces aux TIC qui, selon ces documents de politique, constituent l'un des defis majeurs poses a la societe de l'information.

Plus recemment, la resolution 73 de l'Union internationale des telecommunications (UIT UIT Union Internationale des Télécommunications
UIT Unit Investment Trust
UIT Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
UIT União Internacional das Telecomunicações (Portugal)
UIT University of Information Technology
) a demande au Secretaire general de l'UIT de mettre l'organisation d'un 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 l'information a l'ordre de jour de la reunion du Conseil executif de coordination du systeme des Nations unies. La proposition ayant eu une reponse positive, le Conseil executif a decider d'organiser le SMSI SMSI sommet mondial de la société de l'information
SMSI Strong Metal-Support Interaction
SMSI Simplified Message Service Interface
 en deux phases. La resolution 56/183 de l'Assemblee generale des Nations unies fixe au SMSI l'objet d'elaborer une vision et une perception communes de la societe de l'information, et d'adopter une declaration et un plan d'action. Lobjectif du SMSI est donc de formuler une vision et une perception communes de la societe mondiale de l'information. Ce sommet est egalement un moyen efficace d'aider les Nations unies a atteindre les objectifs de la Declaration du millenaire. Le sommet se tiendra en deux phases : l'une a Geneve, en 2003, et l'autre a Tunis, en 2005, et sera precede de reunions preparatoires dont la premiere s'est deja tenue a Geneve, du ler au 5 juillet 2002, et la deuxieme au mois de fevrier 2003. La Resolution 56/183 encourage egalement toutes les institutions concernees du systeme des Nations unies et toutes les organisations intergouvernementales, au nombre desquelles les institutions internationales et regionales, de meme que toutes les organisations non-gouvernementales, la societe civile et le secteur prive, a contribuer au processus preparatoire du sommet et a participer activement a sa tenue elle-meme.

Les associations de femmes et les groupes de pression sur l'egalite de genre et la promotion des TIC travaillent inlassablement depuis le debut du processus du SMSI, qui a commence par les preparatifs au niveau regional. Pendant la conference preparatoire africaine qui s'est tenue a Bamako en mai 2002, le Comite du SMSI sur les questions d'egalite de genre a ete cree et s'est vu assigner la tache tache (tahsh) [Fr.] a spot or blemish.tachet´ic

tache blanche  (blahnsh) a white spot on the liver in certain infectious diseases.
 d'elaborer une position feminine et une strategie de lobbying dans le cadre du processus du SMSI. Le Comite est un organe multisectoriel compose de femmes et d'hommes issus des gouvernements, d'organisations de la societe civile, d'organisations non-gouvernementales, du secteur prive et du systeme des Nations unies.

Le Groupe 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.
 du SMSI sur les strategies des ONG ONG Organisation Non Gouvernementale
ONG Organización No Gubernamental
ONG Organização Não-Governamental (Brazil)
ONG Organizzazione Non Governativa (Italian) 
 en matiere d'egalite de genre a ete mis sur pied lors de la premiere reunion du Comite preparatoire du SMSI, tenue a Geneve, en juillet 2002, et constitue l'un des sous-comites du Groupe de coordination de la societe civile (GCSC GCSC Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (Giessen, Germany)
GCSC International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture
GCSC Global Client Support Center (AT&T) 
). Ce Groupe est une emanation emanation, in philosophy
emanation (ĕmənā`shən) [Lat.,=flowing from], cosmological concept that explains the creation of the world by a series of radiations, or emanations, originating in the godhead.
 d'organisations de femmes du domaine de l'information et de la communication, qui ont conjugue leurs efforts pour formuler des strategies de plaidoyer en matiere d'egalite de genre, dans le cadre du SMSI. Il se distingue dis·tin·gué  
adj.
Distinguished in appearance, manner, or bearing.



[French, past participle of distinguer, to distinguish, from Old French; see distinguish.]
 du Comite du SMSI sur les questions d'egalite de genre, bien que leurs objectifs se recoupent a bien des egards. Les organisations qui composent actuellement ce Groupe sont : le Reseau de developpement et de communication des femmes africaines, Agencia Latino Americana de Informacion, l'Association pour une communication progressiste (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. ) a travers son Programme d'appui a la creation de reseaux entre les femmes, le Centre international de tribune des femmes et Isis International de Manille. Le Groupe de travail est ouvert a toutes les ONG et a toute personne interessees par les questions d'egalite de genre et par la societe de l'information.

De nombreux defenseurs des politiques d'egalite de genre et des TIC ont recemment pris part a la deuxieme reunion du Comite preparatoire du SMSI et a la Commission de la condition de la femme de I'ONU tenues en mars, a New York. Les themes de la session de la CSF Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Analysis Definition

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis is a laboratory test to examine a sample of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
 de cette annee etaient Femmes, Medias et TIC, et I'elimination de toutes les formes (language, music) Formes - An object-oriented language for music composition and synthesis, written in VLISP.

["Formes: Composition and Scheduling of Processes", X. Rodet & P. Cointe, Computer Music J 8(3):32-50 (Fall 1984)].
 de discrimination et de violence contre les femmes. Les deux reunions etaient tres importantes, car les femmes y ont sensibilise l'opinion sur les questions des medias et des TIC. Le Groupe s'est employe a veiller a ce que les preoccupations et le plaidoyer relatifs a l'egalite de genre soient incorpores dans le projet de Declaration et de Plan d'action du SMSI et dans les conclusions de la 47eme session de la CCF CCF
abbr.
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation of Canada
 sur les femmes, les medias et les TIC.

Compte tenu du fait que peu de pays africains ont adopte des politiques sur les TIC, le SMSI constitue pour les femmes africaines une occasion de plaider et de faire pression pour que soient adoptees des reglementations et des politiques appropriees, susceptibles de resoudre les desequilibres actuels entre les sexes, et de faire du droit [French, Justice, right, law.] A term denoting the abstract concept of law or a right.

Droit is as variable a phrase as the English right or the Latin jus. It signifies the entire body of law or a right in terms of a duty or obligation.
 de communiquer une condition prealable a l'ere de l'information dans laquelle nous vivons.

FEMNET consacre ce numero de Nos Droits aux documents de lobby qui ont ete publies par le Groupe de travail Strategique des ONG sur le genre, dans le cadre des efforts de lancement du processus du SMSI. Nous esperons qu'il sera un outil utile pour la promotion du plaidoyer sur l'adoption de politiques de TIC favorables aux femmes dans la region.

FEMNET est l'un des membres fondateurs du groupe de travail des ONG sur les strategies de genre
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