 Regional
meeting on strengthening the capacity of national machineries
through the effective use of ICT
28
- 30 September 2005
Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia
The Division for the Advancement
of Women (DAW), Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA),
is organizing a meeting on strengthening the capacity of national
machineries through the effective use of information and communication
technologies (ICT) for senior representatives from national
machineries for the advancement of women in Africa, in collaboration
with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
The three-day meeting will
take place at the ECA in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 28 to 30
September 2005. Participants include: one national machinery
expert representative per country; one ICT policy-maker per
sub-region; one to two WSIS Secretariat representatives; and
one to two members of the WSIS Gender Caucus. Participants from
the UN ICT Task Force will also be invited.
The meeting in Ethiopia will
draw on lessons learned from four sub-regional workshops organized
for all national machineries in Africa as well as progress made
in establishing sub-regional e-networks and national websites
and integrating gender perspectives into national ICT policies
and activities
 Meeting
concludes with declaration on gender equality in the information
society
Gender
activists and public sector representatives known as “National
machineries” adopted a draft declaration that seeks to
advance gender equality in addressing the digital divide. The
final declaration will be presented at the forthcoming World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to be held in Tunis,
November 2005. More>
Mainstreaming ICT in national gender empowerment agenda
The
Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) of the United Nations
Secretariat and the Development Information Services Division
(DISD) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) begun a 3-day
meeting "Strengthening the capacity of national machineries
through the effective use of ICT" from 28 to 30 September
2005 at the United Nations Conference Centre, Addis Ababa. More
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For further information, please
contact:
Ms.
Atsuko Okuda
ICT Team
Development
Information Services Division (DISD)
Economic
Commission for Africa (ECA)
P. O. Box 3001
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel
: +251-11-5511167
Fax: + 251-11-5510512
Email: aokuda@uneca.org
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