[Wigsat-l] Online Forum - Gender, ICTs and rural livelihoods - join us 5-16 July

[Sophia Huyer]

JOIN GENDER, ICTS AND RURAL LIVELIHOODS: SPECIAL ONLINE FORUM
5- 16 JULY AT E-AGRICULTURE.ORG

Join e-Agriculture and GenARDIS* in a special online forum in English that will explore some of the challenges that people and projects face when implementing projects aimed at empowering women and ICTs in rural livelihoods. The forum will look at what has worked, what has not worked, and good practices, as well as the critical area of capacity building and what can be done to empower women and men in playing a more vital role in ICTs for agriculture and rural development. Furthermore, the Forum aims to explore evaluation and will facilitate discussion on how we produce evidence that donors need to take the importance of women in rural ICTs seriously.

The forum will be hosted entirely online through the e-Agriculture Community platform at http://www.e-agriculture.org.

The Forum will be moderated by Jennifer Radloff, Coordinator of Association for Progressive Communication (APC) Women's Networking Support Programme for Africa. Assisting in the facilitation will be: Analia Lavin, Specialist Editor for APC Communications;  Emilar Vushe, Executive Assistant and Grants Administrator, APC; Michael Riggs, e-Agriculture Lead Facilitator & Knowledge and Information Management Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); and Charlotte Masiello-Riome, e-Agriculture Communications Expert, FAO .

Subject Matter Experts include:

Oumy Ndiaye, Manager, Communication Services Department, The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (Senegal/The Netherlands)
Fatema Begum Labony, Research Associate (M&E), D.Net (Development Research Network) (Bangladesh)
Sarah Mpagi, Program Officer, Knowledge Management and Research, Ugabytes (Uganda)
Eliane Najros, Senior Project Manager/DIMITRA, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy) Hannah Beardon, Independent Consultant in participatory approaches and ICT for Development(Spain)
Sophia Huyer, Founding Executive Director, Women and Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT) (Canada)
Anupama Saxena, Head, Department of Political Science and in charge Director Women's Studies and Development Centre, Guru Ghasidas University (India)
Helen Hambly Odame, Associate Professor School of Environmental Design & Rural Development Capacity Development and Extension, University of Guelph (Canada/Ghana) Janet Achora, Senior Programme Officer -Information Sharing & Networking, Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) ( Uganda)

Registration is already open to join the discussions. To register, simply go to http://www.e-agriculture.org/regform2.html, register your details, and log in 5 July.

*See http://genardis.apcwomen.org/en for more information on GenARDIS.

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Jennifer Radloff
Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme - Africa
Location: cape town, south africa
skype: jenny_apc
jenny at apcwomen.org
mobile: +27 72 252 7650

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