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KNOW HOW CONFERENCE FOLLOW-UP UPDATE
This newsletter is a product of the IIAV, Obiplein 4, 1094
RD Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Editorial
Women’s Information and Beijing + 5
News from the regions
New Websites in China
Publications
Requests
Newsletter January 1998
This update is published by the Knowledge Sharing Program of the IIAV. It is part of the ongoing process of the Know How Conference on the World of Women’s Information. It is published and disseminated on paper, through e-mail and through the Know How website at www.iiav.nl.
The IIAV is committed to the possibility of communication and knowledge sharing among women’s information developing a newsletter as a tool to that purpose. The Knowledge Sharing program consists of projects designed to share knowledge between the organizations that make up the world of women’s information - more than 200 at the present time, in over 90 countries.
issn: 1384-5705
Project manager: Lin Pugh;
Director: Joke Blom
IIAV/ Knowledge Sharing Program
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Please let us know what you thought of this publication, and please send your news for the next publication (July 1999). We hope that will be a newsletter rather than an update. Let us hear about new CD-ROMs and publications of importance to the world of women’s information.
The Know How Conference on the World of Women’s Information has become an on-going global and regional tool for women’s information specialists to develop their work. Groups in Asia are preparing the Asia-Pacific regional Know How conference, which will be held in Korea in 2001. Discussions are still taking place as to who will host the next global Know How Conference, in 2002. If your organization is interested in this task, please let us know! In Africa and Latin America, organizations are preparing to incorporate the updating of Mapping the World of Women’s Information Services, the database of all our services, in their own program activities. A Spanish language listserv will soon take off. At the global level, women’s information services have taken the initiative to provide the platform for NGO participation in the review process of the UN World Conference on Women (Beijing).
The Know How Conference requested the IIAV to continue its work in facilitating the flow of information between women’s information services, and to promote the Declaration of the Know How Conference. It elected a Permanent Committee to see that the work of Know How is continued. The Permanent Committee consists of: Marta Terry, Cuba; Rhona Bautista, Philippines; Muthoni Muriu, Senegal; Montse Argente Jiménez, Cataluna; Uma Kali-Shakti, Australia; Irene Chaverri Polini, Costa Rica; Joan Challinor, USA; Anju Vyas, India; Natalia Babich, Russia; Joke Blom and Lin Pugh, The Netherlands; Lydia Ruprecht, UNESCO; Gerda de Bruijn, Surinam/The Netherlands.
The IIAV, in consultation with the Permanent Committee, has drawn up a plan for the ongoing follow-up to the Know How Conference: the Knowledge Sharing Program. We have presented the program to a number of potential funders and are hoping to hear soon that we can begin implementation.
In a nutshell, the essence of the Declaration of the Know How Conference as we interpret it is the need to share knowledge and work together to increase the effect of our individual efforts. This is vastly more than the exchange of information. The program will make women’s information more accessible and gender-specific information more easily available to women, policy-makers, decision-makers and educators, NGOs through
The projects in the program reflect the areas of concern of the Know How conference: peace and conflict, women’s poverty, sexual health and girls, women’s human rights, Indigenous women, lesbian women, women moving into governance and public arena’s, information communication technology.
A continuing project is the Mapping the World of Women’s Information Centers and Services. This year the project is being expanded to include many more African centers (in cooperation with ENDA/Synfev, GAIN and UNESCO), and hopefully also Latin America and Europe. When funding of this project is forthcoming, we will of course continue to update Mapping the World using the information received from centers.
A second project is the Global Electronic Networking Forum, a cooperative initiative of IWTC, IIAV, Isis groups, ENDA/Synfev and APC women’s program, together with WomenWatch.
If you would like a full text of the plans, please write to pugh@iiav.nl or by post to Lin Pugh, IIAV-Knowledge Sharing Program, Obiplein 4, 1094 RD Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Mention whether you can receive it as a Word document. It is 100 kb.
A listserv will be opened for Latin American women working on women and information issues. When more details are available we will inform you.
This listserv is an initiative of Irene Chaverri Polini, one of the Know How Regional Committee members, of Consultora-RUTA/Coordinadora GEMA, GEMA will contact all Spanish-language members of the Know How network to inform them of this listserv.
Contact: Irene Chaverri Polini, Consultora-RUTA/Coordinadora GEMA, Apartado 783-2400. San Jose, Costa Rica. gema@gema.org; http://www.gema.org; Telefono: +506-255-4011
Facsimile: +506-222-6556.
To join the English language listserv, send an e-mail to listserv@surfnet.nl. In the message area, type: Subscribe KnowHowconf YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME.
Women’s Information and Beijing + 5
The 43rd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was held in New York in March 1999. The items on the agenda this year were the optional protocol, women and health and institutional mechanisms. Immediately following the CSW was the preparatory meeting for Beijing +5, a review of the extent to which governments have implemented the Beijing Platform for Action. Beijing+5 will take place in New York in June 2000.
In the discussions on Institutional Mechanisms the importance of governments providing resources to civil society was stressed, as was the importance of governments accessing information on the position of women. These issues are reflected in the resulting Draft Agreed Conclusions and provide women’s information services with an important new lobbying document.
Documents are available through Internet: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/protocol/protocol.htm, http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/nmagree.htm, http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/enabling.htm, http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/healthagree.atm.
During the Preparatory Committee meetings, the women’s information services together with women’s ICT program services had a high profile. At a meeting we organized to discuss the role of ICT in the preparatory process of Beijing+5 it was clear that the large number of assembled representatives of UN organizations and NGO women’s organizations welcomed our willingness to develop a platform for collecting and disseminating information and promoting discussions- the global electronic networking forum. The plan has since been officially approved by the NGO coordinating body, CONGO/CSW. In the articles below you will find information on the planned activities. We strongly urge you to participate.
In March 1999, during the 43rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women and the United Nations, Lin Pugh read out parts of the Declaration of the Know How Conference (August 1998) to the assembled representatives of the world’s governments. This intervention was made at the request of the Know How Conference. The text of the intervention, which was distributed to all delegates, is reproduced below.
2 March 1999 New York, 43rd Session of CSW
Madam chair, distinguished delegates,
Thank you for giving me the opportunity of speaking with you this morning.
For two decades, United Nations Organizations have been committed to
advancing the position of women throughout the globe. In this period, hundreds of women’s information centers emerged to join the already existing women’s libraries and archives in providing women, women’s organizations, researchers and policy makers with gender specific information. Access to information is a human right and therefore a women’s right. Information is vital to improving the position of women and essential in your decision-making processes. I am very pleased to inform you that in the summer of 1998, at the Know How Conference on the World of Women’s Information, organized by the IIAV, 200 women’s information centers from 83 countries met in a climate of co-operation and vision and committed themselves to providing better services to their clients. This they will do by working together as a global community of women’s information services, sharing knowledge and information. By sharing skills, knowledge and resources, the centers will be able to provide local information to the global community and global information to local communities.
The Declaration of the Know How Conference and the Indigenous Women’s manifest is our Platform for Action. It outlines the developments that are to take place in developing the profession of women’s information, in utilizing women’s information in decision-making processes, in funding and personnel and in the political context. I will read two passages from the Declaration.
From the introduction:
"We, the 300 women and men from 83 countries and seven continents gathered together at the Royal tropical Institute, August 22-26 1998, represent the global community of information specialists, librarians, archivists, academics, politicians and activists in the field of women’s information.
The mission of the Know How Conference is to improve the visibility and accessibility of women’s information, on te global and local level. This includes information for and by all women, including Indigenous women, migrant and refugee women and lesbian women.
The goal is to develop a strategy whereby women involved in information work could promote the empowerment of women at the local and global level.
We convened this conference for the purpose of establishing global and local networks among workers in women’s information centers, archives and services throughout the world."
From the Statement of Principle:
"Information technology capacitates, mobilizes and organizes people to influence policy. While recognizing that the media contributes to women’s marginalization on a daily basis, women must use the same media to challenge the male status quo.
Women of all nations should work together to share information and support each other’s work to document the world’s women.
We need to create a new space for women on-line, a new vocabulary and new ways of naming terms we are dealing with on an every day basis.
By collecting oral histories we can recognize the power of speech in passing on knowledge and our cultural heritage. In the process of ional machineries, UN organizations and women’s information centers must work closely together to meet our mutual goals of making information available and accessible.
I encourage you to obtain a copy of the Declaration of the Know How Conference from the Internet. Join us to discuss how you can participate. Thank you.
Global initiative
The initiators of the global electronic networking forum are Isis International/Manila, Isis-WICCE/Kampala, IIAV-Knowledge-Sharing Program/The Netherlands, APC-WNSP, ENDA-SYNFEV/Senegal, WomenWatch (UN), ITU Gender Task Force, IWTC, Femnet/Kenya, UNIFEM, and JA-Net. The forum’s purpose is to shape the strategies for using electronic networking as part of the Beijing + 5 review process, and to share information around advocacy and accountability efforts and strategies by women activists worldwide. The initiative was taken in March 1999, during the 43rd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York. The initiators have formed a working group to plan and execute the forum. They can be reached at wimnet@gn.apc.org.
The global website will service the regional sites, enabling the regional sites to link up and to access each other’s information. The UN’s WomenWatch site will link in to the global site, with the effect that visitors to either UN or NGO site will gain ready access to all available information on the Beijing + 5 process. Mapping the World of Women’s Information Services will be added to the site, as a resource.
One stop ‘shopping’
By linking to appropriate sites throughout the world the regional and global sites will provide ready access to all sites dealing with the advancement of women. The working group intends this to be a valuable contribution to ‘cleaning up’ Internet, as at present we all spend too much time searching for relevant sites.
Regional sites
The regional sites will be a platform for regional discussions around the Beijing + 5 review framework; a way of collecting and sharing the national and regional shadow reports; a clearing house for all important information devoted to NGO initiatives and information around the Beijing + 5 process; a way of continuing the discussion around NGO access and participation in UN meetings in general and the Special Session on Beijing + 5 specifically; and a way of monitoring and reviewing specific actions to be taken as part of Section J (women and Media) in the Beijing Platform for Action.
Asian site
AWORC, the Asian Women’s Research Exchange, which was launched during the Know How conference in August 1998, will host the Asian Beijing+5 site. A multinational, multi-skilled working group is to set up the site. Situated at http://www.jca.apc.org/aworc/bpfa/index.html, it will be a prototype for the sites to come. AWORC is organizing a training at the end of June for women’s organizations who will participate in the discussions on the Asian site (http://www.jca.apc.org/aworc/went99).
African site
ENDA/Synfev will host the African Beijing+5 site, to be found at http://www.enda.sn/synfev/synfev.htm. In co-operation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa they too will host a training session in June for women’s organizations participating in the Beijing+5 electronic forum process.
European site
Site host: IIAV
The regional coordinators are:
The hosts of the sites in other regions are not yet definite. If you are interested in hosting a site, please contact the working group at wimnet@gn.apc.org.
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.
From June 21-26 AWORC will hold a regional training meeting in Korea with the following goals:
BUCHAREST, May 15-16, 1999
KARAT Coalition, a network of women’s NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe representing women’s rights, which also has a women’s information center, is organizing a meeting from May 15-16 to prepare the Eastern European NGO participation in the Beijing+5 review process. One of the items on the agenda is the global electronic networking forum and the role the organizations in Central and Eastern Europe will play.
KARAT Coalition is a new coalition that has been working effectively to represent the interests of women’s organizations in Eastern and Central Europe in international events. The early part of 1999 was spent collecting information for the National Reports on the Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women, and then composing a Regional Report. (The national reports from Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine are available via e-mail by request made to Kinga Lohmann or through the respective country representatives. The Regional Report is available in print or via e-mail through Kinga Lohmann.)
12 representatives of the KARAT Coalition from 9 countries participated in the 43rd UN Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York from February 26 through March 19, 1999. On March 3, they drew a large crowd at the KARAT Coalition presentation on the Central and Eastern Asian Report on Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women.
Lenska Prusova (gender@ecn.cz.) of the Gender Studies Center in Prague, Czech Republic, is preparing a KARAT Coalition website.
Contact: Cecilia Preda, AnA Centre, 24 Ferdinand Blvd., ap. 11, 70313 Bucharest, Romania, Tel/fax: +40 1 252 49 59
E-mail: cecilia@cepes.ro
Or Kinga Lohmann,
KARAT Coalition, ul. Franciszkanska 18/20 00-205 Warsaw, Poland
Many women’s information centers in the Know How network have experience in contributing to a culture of peace by providing information to women and to community leaders. We have our own ‘good practices’ in this area. These questions will be discussed at the pan-African Conference on a Culture of Peace (see article in this newsletter). Some of the issues that will be discussed include: What partnerships can be developed between information services and other sectors working on peace? How can ICT facilitate communication between information services within and outside national boundaries at conflict times? What media would be most appropriate for gathering, storing and disseminating women’s information during conflicts, and at peaceful times?
The Albanian Women’s Center is participating in an initiative of Albanian NGOs, the Albanian NGO Forum and Albanian Civil Society Foundation to support the Kosova refugees.
They are part of a working helping to gather and disseminate information within Albania and abroad, in particular documenting atrocities against Albanians, which will be intended for use in any subsequent trials for crimes against humanity.
The Belgrade Women’s Studies Center is working with Belgrade NGO’s to support the peace process in the Balkan. In an international appeal dated 6 April 1999, they call, among other things, for the Serbian and international media to inform the public in a professional manner and not spur media war, incite interethnic hatred, create irrational public opinion and glorify force.
KARAT Coalition of women’s human rights organizations in Central and Eastern Europe has prepared a statement of support for women in the Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro regions. They invite us to copy the following letter and forward it to any NGOs or other organizations working in these regions. It has been sent to Martina Belic (e-mail: Martnab@zamir.net) of BaBe in Belgrade.
To our dearest colleagues in Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro:
On behalf of the KARAT Coalition, a network of women’s NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe representing women’s rights, we collectively wish to express our concern, support, and love for the women living in the violent climate of Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro. Please accept our sympathies and concerns, as well as our wishes for peace and tranquility to return to this region of the world.
Initiative taken by: KARAT Coalition, ul. Franciszkanska 18/20 00-205 Warsaw, Poland
CONTINENTAL NETWORK OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN NEWSLETTER, Latin America
The Continental Network of Indigenous Women in Latin America published the bilingual, first edition of the Continental Network of Indigenous Women Newsletter in January 1999. Its purpose is to enable Indigenous Women to communicate between each other and "to learn from our struggles and experiences of our people. The creation of the newsletter is one tool which will help us in diffusing information." The coordinators are Nancy Henriquez (Central), María de Jesús Patricio (North) and Blanco Chancoso and Elvia Dagua (South).
The objectives of the bulletin are: to maintain communication between Indigenous Women of the Americas; to work to increase the participation of Indigenous Women at all levels; to encourage the training of Indigenous Women, to make the goals of women heard to influence policy in all environments; and to influence economic and cultural development.
In a contribution from María Isabel Curihuentro Llancaleo entitled "Mapuche Women of Chile" we read:
"As Mapuche people, our values and systems of social relationship is based in a system of equality and social complementarity shaped in our cosmovision where women and men, elders and youth form a part of the original family that is seen in all natural forces. This shapes the system of social relations between women and men within Mapuche society (antaño). As Mapuche women we are not looking to become part of feminism, we are not feminists nor are we looking for a movement separate from the men. We want to be part of the struggle of our people at all levels: political, social and economic.
We can contribute to the debate with these goals:
To order copies for your information center, e-mail the editor at ec@ecuanex.net.ec.
Mapping the World of Women’s Information Services is playing an important role in the pan-African women’s peace conference to be held from 17-20 May 1999 in Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania.
ORGANIZERS
UNESCO is organizing, in co-operation with the Organization of African Unity, the government of the United Republic of Tanzania, the African Women’s Committee for Peace and Development and other regional and UN partners a pan-African conference entitled "Women organize for a Culture of Peace in Africa" (Zanzibar, Tanzania).
OBJECTIVE
Provide a forum for African women to co-ordinate their actions for peace that will have an effective and significant impact on decision-making processes on the continent and serve as an early warning mechanism.
MAPPING THE WORLD
In preparation for the Zanzibar meeting, the IIAV, GAIN (Gender and Information Network in Africa) and ENDA/Synfev, have been working together to double the number of women’s information centers in the Mapping the World database.
Buhle Mbambo of the University of Botswana Library, representing GAIN, will present a workshop together with Tilly Vriend of the International Information Center and Archives of the Women’s Movement, on Mapping the World of Women’s Information Services. They will explore how women’s information can be used to develop a culture of peace. The book, Women’s Information Centers and Networks; a global sourcebook, will be launched at the meeting.
For more information visit: http://www.unesco.org/cpp/uk/news/news.html
ASIAN PACIFIC WOMEN’S INFORMATION NETWORK CENTER
The Asian Pacific Women’s Information Network Center was established in 1996 at Sookmyung Women’s University in Korea. Its aim is to promote women’s information and women-related communication technologies in Korea and the Asia-Pacific region.
APWINC is responsible for the UNESCO project on communication and technology for women (June 1998-June 2001) and is in the process of constructing comprehensive web women’s information systems for the Asia Pacific region. Its policy project to support web informatization for women began in October 1998.
APWINC will act as an active information bridge in the Asia-Pacific region with a systematic information distribution network.
Ms. Du Jie and Ms. Zhang Caixia of the All China Women’s Federation, Beijing, China sent the following URLs of the China Women Newspaper. It has a large circulation and a good reputation among Chinese women as well as men. It’s the largest women’s newspaper in China. These sites will be added to Mapping the World.
The first web page concerning women’s studies and development in China was established in 1998 and has been maintained thereafter by the Women’s Studies Institute of China, All China Women’s Federation (ACWF). It is both a study resource and a reference document on Chinese women’s issues on a wide range of topics. The website features:
WHAT WE NEED
Though the website is an excellent resource to search for Chinese women’s studies as well as reference document on women’s development, it is presently only available in Chinese. Are there Chinese speaking people who could volunteer to translate parts of it into English? Any contribution to our website will be highly appreciated.
Intl. Liaison Dept., All-China Women’s Federation
The Philippine National Centennial Commission-Women Sector produced in December 1998 the 1998 Manila Declaration of Herstory for the Third Millenium; Evolving women-centered Paradigms through Herstories for the 21st Century. Its forward looking strategies are:
Interested in joining the global movement for herstories?
Write to the secretariat, giving your name, organization, position, address, tel. no., fax no., and e-mail address.
Secretariat: The Philippine Women’s University - Development Institute for Women in Asia-Pacific, e-mail diwa@pwu.net,
tel +632-521-3383, fax +632-522-4002.
The Rural Women Development Service Center is a resource support group working closely with grassroots women’s organizations in India. It provides financial and other resources on, in particular women’s human rights. Learning exchanges and information dissemination are tools they use to strengthen the process of empowerment.
Contact: Laxman K. Pal, Rural Women Development Service Centre, At/Po Khalari, Angul-759 122, Orissa, India. Tel: +91-6764-30104, fax +91-6764-30104
All Papua New Guinea Community Resource Centers throughout the country will soon be transferred to District Women’s Councils, following the lead taken by the Simbu Women’s Resource Center. Sarah Garap, Know How conference participant and Simbu provincial Women’s Development Officer, initiated this process together with Lynn Ball after attending the Know How conference in August 1998.
Sarah Garap will inform the network soon on plans the resource centers have for using the Knowledge Sharing program for technical assistance by way of volunteer placement and funding.
Contact: Sarah Garap, Simbu Women’s Resource Centre, PO Box 192, Kundiawa, Simbu province, Papua New Guinea. Tel: +675-75-1155 ext 125.
ANNOUNCEMENT
In the next volume (volume 23) of Advances in Librarianship
Academic Press, 1999 (http://www.hbuk.co.uk/ap/) you will find the following article:
"What is Women’s Information? The history and future of a longstanding tradition in librarianship" by Marije Wilmink and Marlise Mensink (IIAV).
The CWDS Library (NEW DELHI, INDIA) is a pioneer in the field of Women’s Studies information and documentation and provides various services to the research community.
Since January 1998 the Library has produced a monthly Current Awareness Service to keep the users abreast with the latest documents added to the library collection.
They are planning to extend this service via e-mail for research and academic institutions. Are you interested in receiving the "Bulletin" electronically?
E–mail: cwdslib@alpha.nic.in cwdslib@hotmail.com
Have you already ordered your copy of the book of Mapping the World? If you have, it is being sent to you this month. If not, fill in the form and send it to the IIAV. The book can also be ordered through WomenInk.
Ordering information: Send a copy of this form to knowhow@iiav.nl or IIAV/Knowhow, Obiplein 4, 1094 RB Amsterdam, The Netherlands or fax it to +31-20-6655812
Please send me____copies of Women’s Information Centers and Networks; a global sourcebook at US$17.50 per copy.
Women’s Information Services and Networks: A Global Source Book
S. Cummings, M. Valk and H. van Dam (eds.) 1999
This is a company card/private card in the name of Mr/Mrs/Ms:
The first edition of the European Women’s Thesaurus (EWT), a joint cooperation between the IIAV, RoSa Documentationcentre in Brussels, the Nordic Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Research in Oslo, KVINFO, the National Danish Women’s Library in Copenhagen and the National Italian Women’s Library in Bologna, was presented at the Know How Conference. The response was very positive, and the group has decided to pursue the course of maintenance and development.
This is only possible if funding is forthcoming, and the European Union is now considering our project ‘EWT-Plus, further maintenance and development of the European Women’s Thesaurus’. A decision is expected by July 1999. A number of women’s information centres have joined the initiative: the Library of the Instituto de la Mujer in Madrid, Amazone, national women’s center in Brussels, Fawcett, National women’s library in London and the Women’s History Collection in Göteborg, Sweden.
The project has two parts: a literal translation of the EWT in Spanish, Italian and French (by Madrid, Bologna and Amazone); and the establishment of a procedure for further maintenance and development. IIAV, Fawcett, Rosa and Göteborg will write a handbook on this procedure.
For information: Marianne Boere, boere@iiav.nl
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TECHNICAL INFORMATION REQUEST
The Gender and Development Programme of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre (Malaysia) is in the process of setting up a database for its resource collection and is looking for a database management software packet which is not only suitable for a bibliographic database but also for general databases such as directory of organizations, project database and mailing lists. As we are really computer illiterate we are looking for a very cheap and very user friendly software. We would like to set up our database as soon as possible because we would like to be able to share our resources with others. GAD is now looking into three possibilities:
CDS-ISIS which is free, Microsoft Access, and Cardbox (a commercial database management software from UK which cost less than 400 pounds sterling.
I have no problem setting up the FDT table in CDS-ISIS but could not make any headway in setting up the FST and the Inverted file. Do you know anyone with experience in CDS-ISIS for help. Even with Microsoft Access training is necessary. Also the indexing capability is limited to 255 characters. I have some experience with Cardbox but it is not commonly used.
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Plans are afloat for a Know How regional conference for the Asia
and Pacific Region in the year 2001 in Korea. The proposal was floated at the Asia
Pacific Regional Meeting on Communication Technology for Women's Information at the
Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul on 25th November 1998.
The conference will be a follow-up to the Know How conference and the next step in
preparing for the future International Conference on Women's Information.
Initators are Concepcion Ramilo (Resource Centre and Information Program, ISIS
International-Manila, Philippines), Yukika Matsumoto (JA-NET, Japan), Young-joo Baik
(Korean Women's Development Institute), Yong-ik Yoon (Computer Science Department,
Sookmyung Women's University), Dr. Kio Chung Kim, Director, APWINC, Won-sun Shin (Asia
Pacific Women's Information Network Centre), and Anju Vyas (Centre for Women's Development
Studies, India).
Contact: Anju Vyas cwdslib@sansad.nic.in
(address in address list).
A message from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
All women's information centres can apply directly to the Dutch Embassy in their region
for funding of activities.
From Anna Sastre: Nos dirigimos a vosotras para comunicaros que ya estamos en la
Red. Somos una asociacion de mujeres de Barcelona, España.
Si nos haceis una visita a nuestra web-http://www.adesco.es,
observareisque hemos puesto vuestro link en la misma..
Tambien hemos creado un directorio de recursos paramujeres- http://www.mujerweb.com
Con la finalidad de que sea un punto de encuentro y debate entre nosotras.
Nos gustaria que fuera el principio de una buena comunicación.
Esperamos vuestra participacion, comentarios, noticias y sugerenciasque nos sirvan para ir
mejorando nuestra relación.
(Adesco is an organisation in Barcelona, Spain. Through their website they have created a
link to the IIAV site. Mujerweb is a directory for women, with space for discussions,
comments, news and communication. Please feel welcome to participate.)
Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region
"The Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region sends best wishes for the
success of the conference on the World of Women's Information and we congratulate you on
taking measures to increase women's access to information and possibilities of working
more closely together to end violence and oppression. We believe very strongly that unless
women have a voice and women's concerns are given priority the world will not be a better
place. On behalf of our members in Albania, Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece,
Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Tunesia, Turkey and the countries of
former Yugoslavia, we ask your support in our work for justice, equality and peace in the
Mediterranean Region."
Our next conference will be held in Greece on May 27-30, 1999 and the theme will be
"The Environment and the Mediterranean Economy".
Our growing regional organization works for justice, equality and peace and we welcome new
members and collaborations.
Yana Mintoff Bland, President, Box 615, Kyle, Texas, 78640, USA
Tel 1-512-268 2220, Fax 1-512-268-1557
MONA, the Foundation for the Women of Hungary, is establishing an information
centre for women and women's organizations in the region. The Centre will operate as a
clearing house institution, collecting and disseminating information on women-oriented
issues, projects and networks. It will serve as an open market place for exchanging
experiences and the knowhow of each other's projects. The activities will be sponsored by
UNESCO, the Open Society Institute and several other grant-giving organizations.
Suggestions on how to build the Centre are welcome. Zsuzsa Lestal is Project Manager.
Mona@mail.c3.hu. Office address: 1136 Hungary,
Budapest, Tatra u. 46. III/3. Tel/Fax: (36-1) 329 87 55, Tel: (36-1) 350 13 11
Postal address: 1537-H Budapest, P.O. Box 453/277.
KILDEN - Norwegian Information and Documentation Centre for Women's and Gender
Research, was established by the Research Council of Norway on September 1st, 1998.
KILDEN will be a net-based service in Norwegian women's and gender research. The target
group is researchers, but they will also service political departments and journalists.
Visit their website at http://www.forskningsradet.no/kilden.
Put KILDEN on your mailing list: see address in our address list.
All the Minutes of the Conference are on the Know How Conference English-language
website. A number of keynote speeches including that of Anne Walker and Rosi Braidotti are
now available on the net. If you are willing to translate any of these speeches, please
contact Lin Pugh. Would you like a speech sent by e-mail, please contact knowhow@iiav.nl.
We will continue to add information to the website. The website will play a role in the
communications plan developed for the follow-up activities. This newsletter will be placed
on the website in the very near future.
We are hoping soon to have the Spanish Know How Conference website updated. Nidia
Bustillos is working on the translation of the Minutes of the Conference into Spanish.A
Spanish translation of the Mapping the World website is under preparation. This is not a
translation of the database. It is more a dictionary of terms used in the database. With
this dictionary of terms Spanish-speakers will be better equipped to search the database.
Mapping the World of Women's Information Services news
Mapping the World of Women's Information Services consists of a database, a website and
a book providing information on women's information services throughout the world.
'Mapping the World' is the result of a new co-operation between the Unit for the Promotion
of the Status of Women and Gender Equality of UNESCO and the IIAV.
The book offers:
Why the book is complementary to what is available on Internet:
Ordering information: Send a copy of this form to knowhow@iiav.nl
or IIAV/Knowhow, Obiplein 4, 1094 RB Amsterdam, The Netherlands or fax it to
+31-20-6655812
Who's who in the IIAV Know How office?
There are fewer IIAV staff working on the follow-up to the conference than the full team
we had working on developing the conference. While the plans are being developed and
funders are considering their participation, the following are contact people:
Marije Wilmink (Knowhow@iiav.nl) collects all incoming queries and information for Mapping
the World. Lin Pugh (Pugh@iiav.nl) continues to be project manager and can be approached
on all topics. Marlise Mensink (Mensink@iiav.nl) is primarily working on the European
projects and is responsible for correspondence. Nidia Bustillos (Knowhow@iiav.nl) does all
Spanish-language correspondence.
Please direct all general correspondence to knowhow@iiav.nl
unless you specifically require Lin or Marlise to reply.