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Call for Proposals: KNOW HOW CONFERENCE ON THE WORLD OF WOMEN'S INFORMATION

2001-12-06, Issue 45

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We call on women's media, Internet managers, information and advocacy organizations -as well as researchers- to submit proposals for the second Know How Conference, to be held at the Makerere university campus, Kampala, Uganda, 21-26 July 2002.

Call for proposals

We call on women's media, Internet managers, information and advocacy
organizations -as well as researchers- to submit proposals for the second
Know How Conference, to be held at the Makerere university campus, Kampala,
Uganda, 21-26 July 2002.

Your proposal should address the Conference's mission, which is

"To build and consolidate powerful relationships between participating
organizations, in order to create new programs to make information on the
position of women, and for women, highly accessible and visible."


The idea is to share information on best practices and common difficulties
in the field of information activism, and to develop a work plan
facilitating cooperation in future. The conference will be a combination of
group sessions (sharing learning experiences), capacity development
workshops, and a market place where our organizations and new developments
in our profession will be on display. Preliminary ideas include:



Group sessions:

We are very interested in good practices and/or new ideas for
national/international cooperation. And we want to pay special attention to:

- Making information from the village level available at national, regional
and international policy levels (and vice versa); and generating and
sharing information by/with rural women activists:

- The role of women's information centres in knowledge sharing to give
women access to their full human rights, to eliminate violence against
women, and to eradicate poverty;

- ICT-possibilities as an instrument for collecting and disseminating
women's information.


Oral presentations will form the basis for debate on:

1. Cluster/Track One

a. Using ICTS and Traditional technologies to
make information relevant to women and on the position of women accessible,
visible and available;

b. Making information from the village level available at national,
regional and international policy levels,

c. Developing a plan of action for generating and sharing information
by/with rural women activists;


2. Cluster / Track Two

a. Developing an information centre in a digitized world;

b. The role of women's information services on the World Wide Web;

c. Presentations of new developments /innovations


3. Cluster / Track Three (Women's Movement)

a. The role of women's information centres in knowledge sharing to
give women access to their fullhuman rights, to eliminate violence against
women, and to eradicate poverty;

b. Developing the philosophy of women's information and positioning
ourselves in the owlrdof information services;

c. Evaluating progress made inthe field of information collection,
processing and dissemination, as well as sharing best practices


4. Cluster / Track Four

a. The professional development of women's libraries, archives,
documenttation centres and information centres and evaluation of ...

b. Political, financial, technical and other prerequisites

c. Policy within the collections


Capacity development workshops:
Several workshops will be organised to equip more women activists with
Information Communication Technology skills. The following needs to be
addressed:

- Training in running a listserv in order to share knowledge and
develop information

- Management training in using Internet applications to operate
international teams

- Training in using Internet to participate in international teams.




African flavour:
Since the conference will be held in Uganda, participants will be exposed
to African experiences and challenges of information services. The
objectives of this session are:

- To increase and improve the visibility of African women's issues,
concerns and progress made in the information centres, archives and
services;

- To establish and strengthen links between women information
specialists in Africa and the rest of the world.



Marketplace:
This is the place for all organizations to show their colleagues who they
are and what they are doing. The marketplace gives you the opportunity to
display posters, brochures, videos, etc. on your work.


If you feel you can contribute to any of the above issues, we would be
happy to hear from you. We need plenty of contributions in the form of
presentations, information stands and art pieces. In addition, we are
looking for facilitators for the workshops and keynote speakers,
chairpersons and reporters for the group sessions and plenary sessions. In
your outline/abstract indicate where you would like to contribute and the
language you will use in delivering your product. Also, please indicate
your country of origin. Please make your abstract concise; and brief; it
must not exceed 200 words.

Arrangements are being made so participants can follow the workshops in
English, French and Spanish. Kindly indicate in which language your
presentation will be.

In your proposal, also indicate the technical equipment you need for your
contribution. If you apply for an oral presentation, please create the
presentation in a manner not to exceed presenting time of 20 minutes.

Send your proposal to: criss@edsamail.com.ph or griet@infocom.co.ug,
attention: Kampala Know How Conference 2002.

First deadline: January 20th, 2001


Background:

KNOW HOW CONFERENCE ON THE WORLD OF WOMEN'S INFORMATION

The first Know How Conference (Amsterdam 1998) created a worldwide
community of women's information and media organizations. A concrete and
measurable product of which was the creation of the International
Cooperation Department at the International Information Center and Archives
of the Women's Movement(IIAV), at the request of the participants in the
Know How Conference. Another product was the commitment of the
organizations to continue working together, to develop their expertise in a
spirit of sharing thereby creating a Permanent Committee responsible for
developing future Know How Conferences.

Projects and partnerships resulting from the 1998 Know How Conference
include the global WomenAction 2000 network, the Mapping the World of
Women's Information Services and Centers database and book, the Global
Gender and Water Alliance- an Indian regional Know How Conference, and an
initiative to build a virtual library in Eastern and Central Europe and the
Newly Independent Nations. Japanese partners are using the European Women's
Thesaurus, presented at the Know How Conference, as the basis for their
indexing systems. Plans are underway for a global URL database, an
initiative of our Korean partners. In Bolivia, indigenous women leaders are
developing programs to use ICTs to increase the access of their communities
to information, and as a way of bringing information on their communities
to the world.

Background


In July 2002 two important conferences will take place in Uganda, for the
first time on the African continent. The 5th conference of specialists in
the collection and dissemination of information relevant to women will take
place at the same time . Entitled the Kampala Know How Conference 2002, it
is organized by Isis-WICCE (Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange)
which is based in Kampala, assisted by the International Information Center
and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV) in Amsterdam and Isis
International-Manila.

The 8th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, entitled Women's
Worlds 2002 Congress will be held from 21-26 July 2002. The Department of
Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University in Kampala organize it in
collaboration with NGOs and Civil Society active in gender-focused research.

The two events have much to contribute to each other. Women's Worlds 2002
brings together the creators of knowledge: researchers. Kampala Know How
Conference 2002 brings together specialists in getting information to where
it is needed, whether to the grass roots, researchers, policy makers or the
media. By bringing the information specialists to the Women's Worlds
conference and the researchers to the Know How workshops we hope to
radically affect the relationships between research, activism and
information flows.

A one-day conference for information specialists to plan their work for the
coming 4 years will be held the day after the Women's World's Congress is
completed, on July 27th.


Description of the Conference

The Kampala Know How Conference is a professional, global conference of
women's information and media specialists, linking information specialists
and those who need information.

Hundreds of women's information centers, our activities as diverse as our
geographies, work to strengthen the position of women. Our accessibility,
and the availability of our information, is essential to our work and a
prerequisite to proper policy making at international, national and local
government levels. One way of mainstreaming gender concerns is by investing
our energies in channelling information to the "right people and
institutions". Another way is by investing time in creating the
opportunities for information specialists and those who need information to
produce information together, that is to say, to invest in the process of
making information, and partnerships).The Kampala Know How Conference is
committed to creating a forum where ideas and experiences from the South,
North, West and East are equally represented. Special emphasis will be
placed on the information concerns of rural women and poverty alleviation.



Main organizer

Isis-WICCE in Uganda is the main organizer of the Kampala Know How
Conference 2002
Contact person is Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng, Director.
Isis-Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange
Plot 32 Bukoto Street
Kamwokya
PO Box 4934
Kampala
Uganda
Tel: 256-41-543953
Fax: 256-41-543954
E-mail: isis@starcom.co.ug



Support, training and coaching

IIAV - International Information Center and Archives for the Women's
Movement
Contact person is Lin Pugh, Program Manager of the Department of
International Cooperation
IIAV
Obiplein 4
1094 RB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: 31-20-6651318
Fax 31-20-6655812
E-mail: pugh@iiav.nl


ISIS International Manila
Contact Persons are Susanna George, Executive Director and Rhona O.
Bautista, Resource Center Administrator
ISIS International Manila
#3 Marunong Street
Diliman, Quezon City
Philippines
Tel: 632-435-3405
Tel: 632-924-1065
Email: susanna@isiswomen.org / rhona@isiswomen.org




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