Asian Women's Resource Exchange
Women's Electronic Network Training Workshop
21-26 June, 1999
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 www.jca.apc.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).
The goals of the training workshops are:
The Regional Training Workshop is open to women who meet the following criteria:
The main topics to be covered will include:
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 should fill out the application form and send it to WENT-Apply@isiswomen.org. Deadline for submission of application forms is May 15, 1999.