[huridocs-tech] URGENT: WENT2002 Needs Interns

WENT2002 INTERNSHIP INITIATIVE (Please circulate. Thank you.)

Since 1999, the Asia and Pacific Women's Electronic Network Training 
Workshop (WENT) has trained close to 100 women from 18 countries in 
developing and managing web-based information services and databases, and 
in using online communication tools to advance their social and advocacy 
work. This year, WENT is reaching out to women who want to be trained to 
develop and run information and communication technology (ICT) trainings 
for other women and their organisations.

WENT is accepting applications from women who would like to join the WENT 
Training Team as Interns.

OVERVIEW

The WENT Internship Initiative aims to (1) enable women to learn how to 
organise and run ICT trainings; (2) increase capacity of women to conduct 
national or local ICT training workshops through hands-on exposure in 
running the regional training workshop; and (3) promote networking among 
women ICT trainers in the region.

All WENT Interns are expected to assist the WENT Training Team in 
implementing the regional workshop and in exploring possible 
locally-situated or nationally-based ICT trainings for women and their 
organizations.

The WENT Internship Initiative is a hands-on training of trainers that will 
run in conjunction with WENT2002. All WENT Interns will be learning by 
running sessions and practical exercises, providing tutorials, and 
assisting participants in WENT2002.  The WENT Interns will also participate 
in the onsite preparation and in post-training evaluation.

The WENT Internship Initiative is also open to all women in Asia and the 
Pacific who are committed to making information and communication 
technology work for women and their communities.

The WENT Internship Initiative is organized by the Asia-Pacific Women's 
Information Network Centre (APWINC) and the Association for Progressive 
Communications-Women's Networking Support Programme in behalf of the Asian 
Women's Resource Exchange. WENT2002 and the WENT Internship Initiative are 
generously supported by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission 
for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).

For more information about the Women's Electronic Network Training Workshop 
(WENT), visit http://www.aworc.org/went/index.html


OBJECTIVES

1. Enable women to learn how to organise and run ICT training.

2. Increase capacity of women to conduct national or local ICT training 
workshops through hands-on exposure in running the regional training workshop.

3. Develop a network of women ICT trainers in the region.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF WENT2002  INTERNS

1. Assist the WENT training team in implementing the regional workshop
* handling some sessions and hands-on exercises
* providing tutorials
* stand-by resource persons for the group projects
* assist in user-support and technical support

2. Participate in the post-training evaluation and planning

3. Work with the WENT training team in exploring possible local training 
initiatives

4. Submit a post-internship report about their internship experience.

ELIGIBILITY

The WENT Internship Initiative is open to women who meet the following 
criteria:

1. Has experience in providing training. (ICT-related training  is 
preferable but not requisite)

2. Ability to work in a multi-cultural setting

3. Involvement in any of the following: (a) information sharing, (b) 
resource center, (c) policy and social advocacy work, (d)community outreach 
and organising, (e) women's and gender research, (f) training.

4. Fair to good knowledge of English as the medium for instruction.

5. Willingness to participate in a women's information network in Asia and 
the Pacific.

6. Willingness to share the knowledge, 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 participate in a week-long training conducted in university 
classrooms and student dormitory with shared rooms


LOCATION

The WENT Internship Initiative will be held in conjunction with WENT2002 
which is taking place in August 8-15, 2002 at the Sookmyung Women's 
University in Seoul, Korea. The  Sookmyung Women's University is located 
about one-half hour from the center of Seoul. Located in a women-friendly 
community, the university has first-rate training and computing facilities.

For more information about the University, please see: www.sookmyung.ac.kr 
. The Asia Pacific Women's Information Network Centre, which is based at 
Sookmyung Women's University, will be hosting WENT2002.

WORKING LANGUAGE

The working language of WENT2002 and the WENT Training Team will be 
English. Fair comprehension of spoken and written English will be required 
of each participant. Some members of the Training Team and the Secretariat 
will have some degree of proficiency in languages other than English.

DATES

The training workshop will be from August 8-15, 2002. All WENT Interns 
should be at the workshop location by the morning of August 3, 2002, and 
should be ready to depart on August 19, 2002.

APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION

Applicants to the WENT2002 Internship Initiative will be evaluated by the 
WENT Training Team on the basis of the resume and short essay that they 
will submit. Those who are short-listed will be interviewed via email.

Applicants are required to accomplish the following:

1. Submit updated Resume, highlighting their ICT skills or work experience, 
their training experience (not necessarily only ICT-related) as well as the 
trainings they have participated in.

2. Submit a 300-word essay on the subject "How to Get More Women in Asia 
and the Pacific Interested in ICT."

Deadline for submission of resume and essay is July 30, 2002. Send resume 
and essay to went-apply@womenshub.net

Resumes and Essays that come bearing computer viruses will be automatically 
deleted, so make sure your documents are clean.




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