STRENGTHENING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION CAPACITIES
OF WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS
REGIONAL TRAINING WORKSHOP
JANUARY 18 - 24 NAIROBI, KENYA
Organised by: ABANTU for Development
Sponsored by: the Management and Training Services Division
of the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth and the Commonwealth
Network of Information Technology for Development
| In partnership
with African network organisations. ABANTU for Development is implementing
a comprehensive approach to internet training in Africa which seeks to
equip women and their organisations with internet capacity and to enable
them to become equal partners in the development of information
infrastructures in their national
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THE GOALS WERE;
- To Develop a strong and focused core of women across Africa whose combined
expertise and energy will help to define and guide African priorities on
electronic communications development and use;
- To establish a cross-sectoral, inter-disciplinary African women's
information network;
- To set up and maintain other African list servers and information networks
and by so doing, to build upon African information and data banks within
Africa;
- To stimulate dialogue and the cross-fertilisation of ideas between women
across Africa;
- To enable women to use the internet as a lobbying tool on international
issues so they are in a position to combine social action on both the women
and the global fronts.
THE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
were aimed for participants to develop
- policy analysis skills through exploring ways of influency government
telecomunications regulatory frameworks at national levels;
- strategic planning skills through assessing their own current and future
capacities for ICT use within their organisational contexts; and
- technical skills through upgrading their own internet and website
management abilities.
The training approach combined strategic planning sessions with
demonstrations and skill-building components and was participatory and fluid in
nature.The particpants were members of women's non-governmental organisations
who have already been identified by ABANTU's previous training work in the
regions over the last 6 years or identified by APC Africa members as being
critical to the strategic planning process.
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