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Women's Electronic Network Training Workshop
Organized by AWORC
Date: 21-25 June, 1999
Place: Sookmyung Women's University
Seoul, South Korea
Asian Women's Resource Exchange (AWORC) is an Internet-based women's
information service and network in Asia. AWORC develops cooperative
approaches and partnerships in increasing access to and exploring
applications of new information and communication technologies (ICT)
for women's empowerment. It also expands existing regional networks
in the women's movement, promotes electronic resource sharing and
builds a regional information service to support women's advocacies,
specifically those critical for women in Asia
AWORC members include women's information, resource and documentation
centers, women's information providers and users, communications
organizations working closely with women's networks.
In the year 2000, the UN General Assembly will convene a special session
to assess progress achieved in the implementation of the Beijing Platform
for Action (BPFA) and the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the
Advancement of Women. The special session entitled "Women 2000: Gender
Equality, Development And Peace For The Twenty-first Century" will take
place on 5-9 June 2000 at the UN Headquarters in New York.
AWORC seeks to contribute to the assessment process in Asia through
developing regional women's Internet-based information and communication
channels. AWORC's website now highlights resources, activities and
organizations of women in the region and serves as a channel for women's
organizations to exchange information on the review process. AWORC's
website address is <http://www.apc.jca.org/aworc/>
AWORC is also organizing the "Asian Women's Electronic Network Training
Workshop". This training workshop is scheduled on June 21- 26, 1999 at
the Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, Korea. The workshop aims to
train participants on basic website development tools and and other
Internet-based group communication (e-mail, mailing lists, newsgroups,
etc.) so that women's organizations may effectively use the technology
to exchange and disseminate information on the five-year review of the
BPFA (officially titled Women 2000).
GOALS
The goals of the training workshops are:
1. To train women's information providers in the use of group
conmmunication and web authoring tools to be able to provide meaningful
Internet-related activities of their organizations, networks and
localities.
2. To develop and increase the level of cooperation among women's
information providers and existing women's information networks in the
region.
3. To promote greater sharing of of information sources towards enhancing
the promotion of a regional information network on the review process of
the Beijing Platform For Action (BPFA).
4. To promote the appropriate use of information and communication
technology in the regional women's movement.
5. To train women's information providers who will be able to assist
women in the use of Internet services and tools.
The Regional Training Workshop is open to women who meet the following
criteria:
1. Active involvement in her organization's information work. Preference
is given to information officer/staff and experience in women's network.
2. Organization is engaged in the BPFA Review process, and has plans of
putting out information about issues related to the crticial themes of
Women 2000.
3. Has basic to intermediate computer-literacy. (Training will be conducted
in Windows 95. However, applicant does not necessarily have to be a Windows
user.)
4. Fair to good knowledge of English language.
5. Willingness to participate in a information network for the BPFA process
or Women 2000.
6. Willingness to share the knowldge, skills and resources she will acquire
>from the training with other women.
7. Willingness to work in a group-focused environment and process.
8. Capacity to receive a week long training conducted in university
classrooms and student dormitory with shared rooms.
The main topics to be covered will include:
1. Introduction to the Internet and Internet tools
2. Familiarization with how women's organizations use the Internet
3. Group Communication Tools
4. Planning a user-focused Website
5. Basic and Intermediate HTML Authoring
6. Introduction to the use of multimedia on the Web
7. Search Strategies
8. How to support and train users and providers of information
The course is a mixture of lectures or presentations and demonstrations
with emphasis on hands-on practical experience. Emphasis will be given on
collaborative learning and group work.
By the end of the training workshop, participants will be able to write and
design a user-focused and web-based Information service, as well as
effectively use basic group communication tools.
* The training is NOT a programming course.
Interested parties may fill out the following application form and send
it to <WENT-Apply@isiswomen.org>. Deadline for submission of application
forms is May 15, 1999.
APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE JUNE 1999 AWORC TRAINING ON
ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SHARING
A. Personal Data
FULL NAME:
FAMILY NAME (LAST NAME, SURNAME) ONLY:
Employer/Organization:
Name, Title, Contact email of Director or Head of organization:
Position/Title:
Email address (indicate if organizational):
Organizational Address: (not to exceed 40 characters per line)
Organizational Telephone:
Fax (if any):
Home Address: (not to exceed 40 characters per line)
Home Telephone:
At which address would you like to receive your postal mail?
_____ Business _____ Home
Which phone number do you prefer we call?
_____ Business _____ Home
Date of birth (day/month/year):
Nationality:
Name as it appears on passport or other travel document:
Passport number:
Country issuing passport:
Date of expiry of passport:
Knowledge of English: Please rate your knowledge in these categories:
(choose one)
Listening/Comprehension None Fair Good Excellent
Reading None Fair Good Excellent
Speaking None Fair Good Excellent
Writing None Fair Good Excellent
B. Internet Experience
1. Do you have experience in using the following Internet services?
Please qualify your experience using 0 to 5, 0 means no experience
and 5 a lot of expertise)
[ ] Email
[ ] Mailing List
[ ] News
[ ] FTP
[ ] Web
[ ] Other (specify):
2. Do you have experience running Internet-based information services?
(Please qualify your experience using 0 to 5, 0 means no experience
and 5 a lot of expertise)
[ ] Listserver
[ ] News server
[ ] FTP server
[ ] Web server
[ ] Searching/Indexing services
[ ] Other (specify):
C. Description of Role in Organization's Information Activities
Your answers to the questions below will be used to determine whether to
admit you to the workshop. Please be sure that your information is
sufficiently clear, well organized and adequate for this purpose.
1. A summary of your relevant educational and professional background.
2. A description of your current employer/organization, your position,
your duties and responsibilities.
3. A brief description of your computing and networking environment
(operating systems, networking software, modems, etc.), including the
connectivity of your organization to the Internet.
3a. Scope of your institution (check all categories that apply):
[ ] Local Community
[ ] National
[ ] Regional
[ ] Sub-regional
[ ] Global
[ ] Other - Specify________
3b. Approximate number of full time staff at your institution:
4. In 2-3 paragraphs, please describe your organization's plans concerning
the Beijing Paltform for Action Review Process and Women 2000.
5. How you expect to use the knowledge you gain at the workshop.
6. Have you previously attended Internet-related training?
_____ Yes _____ No
If yes,
6a. Year and type of training:
6b. Did you find it useful? In what way?
7. Does your organization use information and communication technology?
How?
E. Financial Information
You must pay US$300 registration fee for the training and boarding.
AWORC has been able to raise fund to support international travel cost
for a limited number of participants. We encourage interested applicants
to raise the registration fee and part or all of the international travel
cost.
1. Will you be able to provide your own airfare?
[ ] No
[ ] Yes
2. Will you be able to provide your registration?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
3. Will you be applying for scholarship/subsidy?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
F. Submission of Application
PLEASE SUBMIT BY ELECTRONIC MAIL IF POSSIBLE, using plain text, no
attachments. The "Subject" line of the message should contain your surname
or family name in the following format:
Subject: WomenTrain'99 Application: <family-name>
Applications submitted electronically should be sent to:
WENT-Apply@isiswomen.org
If you are not able to send your application by electronic mail, please
return this application by fax or air mail to:
Asian Women's Resource Exchange
Isis International Manila
3 Marunong St., Diliman,
Quezon City 1100
Philippines
Voice: 632-435-3405
Facsimile: 632-924-1065
G. Announcement
Selection process of the training participant will take place immediately
after the deadline for application. All applicants will be informed of the
selection through electronic mail. Please contact us if you do not
receive any information from us by 24h May. Selected participants will be
required to respond to further queries to confirm their participation.
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