KNOW HOW CONFERENCE 22-26 AUGUST 1998

Know How Conference on the World of Women's Information

A Quick Reference Guide to the Know How Conference Site:

In 1998 300 information specialists from 83 countries met together in Amsterdam, to talk about the work and the challenges of providing information for the advancement of women. This was the Know How conference, organised by the IIAV.
The following web pages describe the conference.
Plans are being made for a new Know How conference, to be held in 2002. Watch this space for more information! Or write to info@iiav.nl if you are interested in receiving our information updates.
A number of follow-up newsletters have been published since the conference:
Know How Electronic Newsletter Number One (January 1999)
(News from the Network, Evaluation, Future Plans)
Know How Electronic Newsletter Number Two (July 1999) phone: +31 20 6651318

What Is Know How?
Declarations
Press Releases
Who Is Organizing Know How?
Register for the Know How LISTSERV
Conference Program (Workshops, Minutes)
Keynote Speakers
Comments?

Hosted by the IIAV, International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement

Held at the Royal Tropical Institute and the IIAV Amsterdam, The Netherlands 22-26 August 1998

Ms Joke Blom, Director

IIAV Obiplein 4 1094 RB Amsterdam The Netherlands

phone: +31 20 6651318 fax: +31 20 6655812 e-mail: knowhow@iiav.nl

What is the Know How Conference?

The Know How Conference on the World of Women's Information is a process of sharing knowledge and expertise between women's information specialists throughout the globe. The IIAV hosted, as part of this process, the Know How Conference in August 1998.
The Know How Conference mission is to improve the accessibility and availability of women's information services throughout the world, at the local and at the global level. Hundreds of women's information centres, 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.
The Know How Conference, which was attended by 300 women and men representing 83 countries and seven continents, drew up a statement: the Declaration of the Know How Conference. This is a statement of how the global development of women's information services shall continue to develop in the future. The conference asked the IIAV to continue facilitating this process.

To ensure a truly global effort, the Know How Conference is committed to creating a forum where ideas and experiences from the South, North, West and East are equally represented. It will be innovative, professional and dynamic. One of its exciting outcomes will be the Mapping the World project, a comprehensive overview of women's information facilities: their work, their goals, their achievements. The material collected will be in a variety of forms, including audio-visual and print, all of which will be incorporated in the final product.

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How Can You Participate in the Know How Conference?

Follow the Know How Conference on the Internet. The Know How Conference has a Listserv, so that you can communicate with other women's information service. To subscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@nic.SURFnet.nl.

Organize and join in post- Know How Conference activities. Organize national or regional meetings of women's information services before the Know How Conference to discuss how the participants from your region can best represent the local women's information services. These meetings will be your own initiative, but please report on the proceedings to the Know How Conference, as it will interest us all! Organize meetings after the Know How Conference to report back on what was achieved at the Conference and to plan regional follow-up activities.

Send articles to the International Newsletter, an official communication instrument throughout the Know How Conference.

Send material for the Know How Conference's Mapping the World project.

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If you have any comments or questions about this page please contact knowhow@iiav.nl

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