[huridocs-tech] New women and ICT portal website in CEE

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New women and ICT portal website in CEE

Women and ICT in Eastern and Central Europe
Monday 7th March 2005

On the Web: Women's Information Technology Transfer

Women's Information Technology Transfer (WITT) launch on March 8 2005 a
portal site to link women's organizations and feminist advocates for the
Internet in Eastern and Central Europe.

<WiTT-Project.net> is both a website, providing ICTs strategic information
to all, and supporting, in a collective way, Central and Eastern European
women in developing a web as an instrument in their social activism. WITT
is committed to bringing women's actions, activities and struggles to the
spotlight, promoting the use of free software as a way to highlight women's
voices.

WITT is one of the first organizations of its kind to train women's
non-governmental organisations in Central and Eastern Europe to use
Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in their communication
strategies. The WITT website has been developed for women to share their
experiences with ICTs, to learn about training events provided by WITT and
to develop expertise in advocacy on gender and ICT issues. Women can
publish on the website in their own language (8 languages are available to
be used as the site develops).

During the annual WITT Trainers Exchange Event (TEE 2005), held in Ohrid,
Macedonia from 12-15 February 2005, WITT trainers learned how to operate
this collective website, learning how to write efficiently for the web and
how to publish live using the GPL (General Public License) Publication
software Spip (the site has been totally created by WITT members).
Participants in WITT trainings will need only a few hours to be able to
appropriate the technology for using the website effectively. This is a
great strength both of the Spip system and the WITT philosophy that
technology is a tool to be used, not feared.

The Trainers Exchange Event, hosted by Akcija Zdruzhenska, a Macedonian
organization of feminist trainers, was attended by 16 women from Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Moldova,
Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland and Serbia and Montenegro. All these
trainers are active within the women's movement or social movements in the
region, many in the area of ICTs. The purpose of these events is to build
powerful partnerships between the trainers and for WITT to maintain a pool
of women who will not only promote ICT use but also promote a feminist
analysis of ICT use.

WITT was initiated in 2002 by ENAWA ­ European North American Women Action
as part of its training program. It will become an independent entity early
in 2005, with its seat in Croatia and Focal Points throughout the region.
Focal Points are women working within organizations who represent WITT and
organize local WITT trainings.

For more information:

- WiTT Project website or contact
- info@witt-project.net

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