Santa Clara University's Global Women's Leadership Network Presents: Global Innovation Dialogues.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Who: GWLN hosts its first 2007 Global Innovation Dialogue, a two-hour forum for women and men in corporate, nonprofit and government sectors, to engage in a guided dialogue that will produce breakthroughs in thinking, creativity, and taking action, as participants discover new expressions of leadership to meet today's global challenges.

What: Dr. Nancy J. Hafkin, co-author of Cinderella or Cyberella?-- Empowering Women in the Knowledge Society, will lead participants in a dialogue to unleash the possibility of women in developing countries as innovators in a knowledge society.

Why: Historically, women in developing countries have provided much of the labor, from farming and food production to small-scale enterprises, but have had little access to economic aid, education, and health care. For the past 30 years, Hafkin has worked on issues of gender inequity in Africa and promoting information technology for African development.

Through Hafkin's work with the United Nations, the Pan African Development Information System, and the African Information Society Initiative, she is making computers accessible to the women of Africa, figuring out how to make technology relevant to solving the problems in their daily lives and creating female-friendly environments to help them learn. Hafkin's work in information and communication technologies is bringing the women of Africa into the knowledge society.

When: Thursday, March 1, 2007

Where: Cisco Systems, SilverOak & Jordan Rooms, Bldg. 9, 260 E. Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA

Time: 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Registration: Individual admission to each dialogue will be $35 for early birds; deadline is Feb. 25; $45 for pre-registration after that date; and $55 at the door. We are also offering a discounted fee for signing up for all three GID programs in 2007. To register, please visit: www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=127919.

Global Women's Leadership Network is sponsored by the Leavey School of Business and the School or Engineering at Santa Clara University.

About the Global Women's Leadership Network

The Global Women's Leadership Network cultivates powerful international leaders and establishes worldwide connections that support their success. In turn, those women are partnering with the GWLN in building an international network of women leaders who dare to transform the future of their organizations, communities, and the world. For more information, visit www.gwln.org.

About The Leavey School of Business

The Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University began in 1926, and was one of the first business schools in the country to receive national accreditation. In April 2004, U.S. News & World Report ranked its MBA program among the nation's top business schools, and its part-time program was listed in the Top 10. More than 80 percent of its 1,100 MBA students are working professionals in Silicon Valley. More information is available at www.scu.edu/business.

About Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California's Silicon Valley, offers its 8,377 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees and engineering Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see www.scu.edu.