From shuyer at wigsat.org Tue Nov 2 10:00:40 2010 From: shuyer at wigsat.org (Sophia Huyer) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:00:40 -0400 Subject: [Wigsat-l] IISD launches knowledgebase to assist UN and others in efforts to nurture biodiversity worldwide Message-ID: <2C6DA3EF-1C34-47DD-AC1B-56947768EB4C@wigsat.org> NAGOYA, Japan?November 1, 2010?The International Institute for Sustainable Development has launched a unique knowledge management project to assist United Nations and intergovernmental action on ways to nurture biodiversity all over the world. The online knowledgebase, Biodiversity Policy & Practice, was launched at the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya. ?It will support international efforts to promote biodiversity through the sharing of knowledge and lessons learned by policy makers, practitioners, and other key opinion shapers,? said Langston James "Kimo" Goree VI, director of IISD Reporting Services. ?It will especially assist developing countries where resources and activities focused on protecting the planet remain scarce.? Created and managed by IISD Reporting Services, it is the latest tool serving a broad audience of stakeholders and builds upon IISD?s outstanding achievements in the development of peer-to-peer networks and hubs, including the well-respected www.Climate-L.org. ?For more than two decades, IISD has played a key role in providing information and knowledge products and building virtual communities of practice for environment and sustainable development policymakers and practitioners. This initiative will assist the international community in coordinating their work to preserve biological diversity,? said Goree. All news articles on Biodiversity Policy & Practice are researched and produced by IISD Reporting Services? thematic experts, resulting in original content. Information on activities is provided in cooperation with UN system agencies, funds and programs through the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) Secretariat. Features of the Biodiversity Policy & Practice website include: ? A knowledgebase of summaries of activities (publications, meetings, statements or projects) by a range of actors, with the option to search by several categories (region, actor, action, issue and implementation mechanism); ? An archive of all posts on the site, organized by date; ? A clickable world map to view the latest biodiversity policy news by region (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, Near East, North America, and South West Pacific); ? A link to subscribe to BIODIVERSITY-L, a moderated community announcement list for policy-makers and practitioners involved with biodiversity policy; ? A link to the most recent ?Biodiversity Update,? a periodic feed of recent posts to the Biodiversity Policy & Practice knowledgebase; ? A calendar of upcoming intergovernmental events related to international biodiversity policy; ? A link to our Biodiversity iCalendar, which automatically updates your own calendar program with upcoming biodiversity events; and ? A link to IISD Reporting Services? RSS feed. Please visit Biodiversity Policy & Practice at http://biodiversity-l.iisd.org. Please also visit the Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage of CBD COP 10 at http://www.iisd.ca/biodiv/cop10/. Start-up funding for Phase I of Biodiversity Policy & Practice has been provided by the Global Environment Facility, the world?s largest public funder of global environmental issues and the longstanding financial mechanism of the CBD. For further information on this initiative, or to provide us with information about your biodiversity-related activity, please contact Faye Leone, Content Editor, at faye at iisd.org. 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Engineering is vital for raising standards of living and creating opportunities for sustainable prosperity in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the report, which features contributions from 120 experts around the world. But developing countries on average have only five engineers per 10,000 of the population ? and less than one in some African countries ? according to UNESCO (the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), which published the report. Developed countries have 20?50 engineers per 10,000. The poorest are hit hardest by the lack of engineers: 1.1 billion people have no access to clean water, 2 billion have no access to electricity and 800 million go hungry on a daily basis. "The crucial thing is to address people's basic needs: water supply, sanitation, better homes," Tony Marjoram, editor of the report and head of engineering sciences at UNESCO, told SciDev.Net. Around 2.5 million new engineers are needed only in Sub-Saharan Africa just to ensure provision of clean water and sanitation for everyone, says the report. Developing countries bear the brunt of climate change, so ensuring sustainable development is also important, he said. "Engineering is often blamed for pollution but it can create solutions to reduce carbon emissions and make energy use more effective," Marjoram said. The report calls for developing public and policy awareness of engineering as a key driver of innovation and social and economic development. It also highlights the need to focus educational efforts on the need for more effective application of engineering to sustainable development, poverty reduction and climate change. Only one country in Sub-Saharan Africa has an engineering academy, the report says. It also makes a link between lagging economic development in Latin America and its lack of engineers. Pacific islands where cyclones, tsunamis and earthquakes pose a risk to people have an unsustainable and ageing engineer workforce, overly reliant on foreign aid, it says. "The report makes clear that investing in infrastructure and the education of engineers in developing countries will be hugely important to development," Andrew Lamb, chief executive of the non-profit organisation Engineers without Borders, told SciDev.Net. The shortage of engineers in developing countries is exacerbated by a brain drain, Lamb added. Women are often the ones to experience problems that can be solved with engineering, Jan Peters, executive president of the UK-based Women's Engineering Society told SciDev.Net. "If women are given the skills to solve the problems they have in their lives, the lives of their families will improve enormously." The report, 'Engineering: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Development', was presented at the opening ceremony of the World Congress and Exhibition, Engineering 2010 ? Argentina: Technology, Innovation and Production for Sustainable Development, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last month (17 October). Link to full 'Engineering: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Development' report [10.3MB] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: solarengineers_Flickr_BarefootPhotographersofTilonia.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 7475 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: icon_pdf-transparent.png Type: image/png Size: 306 bytes Desc: not available URL: From shuyer at twows.org Mon Nov 15 08:14:39 2010 From: shuyer at twows.org (Sophia Huyer) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:14:39 +0100 Subject: [Wigsat-l] Sida and Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs are launching a shared database for researchers and research managers Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Sida and Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs are launching a shared database for researchers and research managers Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:45:16 +0000 From: Therese Karlsson To: Hannah Akuffo cid:image001.png at 01CB7AA3.82BAA8C0 Dear colleague, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs are pleased to inform that their shared database called /Researchers for Development Analysis (REDA)/ is now available. The database is intended as a tool in the process of strengthening the role of research in Swedish development cooperation. The database will increase the accessibility to existing experts in all academic disciplines and in research management, for Sida and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Researchers that register in the database will be considered for peer-review processes, commissioned tasks and research, evaluations or direct consultations. Sida and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs encourage a broad spectrum of researchers to register. Researchers that are interested in contributing to strengthening the role of research in Swedish development cooperation are as important as researchers that have a specific focus on developing countries in their area of research. Sida and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs would appreciate it if you could forward this information to your network of researchers and research managers either by e-mail lists or by publishing the information on your web page. To facilitate web publishing, we have attached a short text that you could consider to use. If you have any questions, please contact Therese Karlsson therese.karlsson at sida.se phone +46 (0) 730682990. It takes less than ten minutes to register, if you have prepared your CV and a list of your publications. The direct link for registration is: http://sida.orbelon.com/researcher-database/for-researchers.aspx Thank you for your kind cooperation. Kind regards, Hannah Akuffo Head of Team Team Research Policy and Method Development Secretariat for Research Cooperation -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Text_ Web_Intranet.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 11249 bytes Desc: not available URL: From shuyer at wigsat.org Tue Nov 9 13:55:59 2010 From: shuyer at wigsat.org (Sophia Huyer) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:55:59 +0100 Subject: [Wigsat-l] =?windows-1252?q?UNESCO_AND_COSMETICS_GIANT_L=92OR=C9A?= =?windows-1252?q?L_HONOUR_FIVE_OUTSTANDING_WOMEN_SCIENTISTS?= Message-ID: <76D4C628-42C7-4B5E-AF3F-A63DAD83ED81@wigsat.org> UNESCO AND COSMETICS GIANT L?OR?AL HONOUR FIVE OUTSTANDING WOMEN SCIENTISTS New York, Nov 9 2010 11:05AM The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and cosmetics manufacturer L?Or?al today announced the names of five outstanding women scientists who will be honoured for their research and the impact of their work on society. The awards ceremony will take place on 3 March next year at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Each of the five laureates will receive $100,000 in recognition of her contribution to science. Faiza Al-Kharafi, professor of chemistry at Kuwait University will be honoured for her work on corrosion, a problem of fundamental importance to water treatment and the oil industry. Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, professor of chemistry and energy at the University of Hong Kong will be recognized for her work on light-emitting materials and innovative ways of capturing solar energy. Anne L?huillier, who teaches atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden, will receive recognition for research on the development of the fastest camera for recording events in attoseconds ? a billionth of a billionth of a second. Professor Emeritus Silvia Torres-Peimbert of the Institute of Astronomy at Mexico City University will receive the award for her work on the chemical composition of nebulae, which is fundamental to the understanding of the origin of the universe. Jillian Banfield, professor of Earth and Planetary Science, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, will be honoured for her research on bacterial and material behaviour under extreme conditions relevant to the environment and the Earth. More than 1,000 scientists from around the world took part in the nomination of candidates for the awards. The International Awards Jury, comprised of 16 eminent members of the scientific community, and presided by Professor Ahmed Zewail, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, then selected the five women researchers in the Physical Sciences as the Laureates of the 2011 awards. Their pioneering projects contribute to finding solutions to major challenges for the planet. ?It is a great pleasure for me to chair this jury and to promote this programme, which is of major international importance,? said Professor Ahmed. ?The women scientists from all over the world who are receiving the L?Or?al-UNESCO Awards make it possible for us to hope for a better future,? he added. With the centenary of Marie Curie ? Nobel laureate for physics and the first female professor at the University of Paris ? being celebrated in 2011, this year?s awards have special significance, say L?Or?al and UNESCO, which joined forces 13 years ago to support the cause of women in science. ________________ For more details go to UN News Centre at http://www.un.org/news To change your profile or unsubscribe go to: http://www.un.org/apps/news/email/ From annholmes at sympatico.ca Sat Nov 13 09:17:36 2010 From: annholmes at sympatico.ca (Ann Holmes) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:17:36 -0500 Subject: [Wigsat-l] New Issue Published of the International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology In-Reply-To: <201010211157.o9LBvEFI012807@peach.open.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology has just published its latest issue at http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our newly designed web site to the full view articles. We welcome your comments on any of the articles, which can be added via the 'add comment' link in the right-hand sidebar once you have logged-in. Please feel free to forward this notification to others you think might be interested. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Jenni Carr on behalf of the GST editorial team International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology Vol 2, No 3 (2010) Table of Contents http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/issue/view/5 Editorial -------- Editorial Clem Herman Research and theoretical papers -------- U.S. University Leader Pronouncements on Women and STEM Fields Connie L McNeely, Lindsey Hopewell Gender Inequality within the U.S. Land-Grant Agricultural Sciences Professoriate Jessica Goldberger, Jessica Crowe A Critical Analysis of the Development of Women Professionals in SET Research in the UK: A Research Agenda Sarah Barnard, Abigail Powell, Barbara Bagilhole, Andrew Dainty Capturing Stereotypes: Developing a Scale to Explore U.S. College Students? Images of Science and Scientists Mary Wyer, Jennifer Schneider, Sylvia Nassar-McMillan, Maria Oliver-Hoyo Keeping College Women in STEM Fields Roxanne M Hughes Perspectives -------- Women in Science: Lessons from Australia Sharon Bell Case Studies -------- Faculty Gender Balance: Best Practices for Undergraduate Institutions Tom Eppes, Ivana Milanovic, Jennifer Sanborn Reviews -------- Review of 'Becoming an Engineer in Public Universities: Pathways for Women and Minorities'. Editors:Kathryn M. Borman, Will Tyson and Rhoda H. Halperin. J?rg M?ller Review of 'Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation'. Editors: J McGrath Cohoon and William Aspray. Clem Herman Review of 'Who?s afraid of Marie Curie?'. Author: Linley Erin Hall Ruth Wilson Review of 'Performing Gender at Work'. Author: Elisabeth Kelan Diane P McCarthy ________________________________________________________________________ International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). From shuyer at wigsat.org Mon Nov 15 09:41:15 2010 From: shuyer at wigsat.org (Sophia Huyer) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:41:15 +0100 Subject: [Wigsat-l] =?windows-1252?q?UN_ELECTS_EXECUTIVE_BOARD_OF_NEW_AGEN?= =?windows-1252?q?CY_FOR_WOMEN=92S_EMPOWERMENT?= Message-ID: UN ELECTS EXECUTIVE BOARD OF NEW AGENCY FOR WOMEN?S EMPOWERMENT New York, Nov 10 2010 2:05PM Member States today took the next step in enabling the newly-created United Nations agency on gender equality and women?s empowerment to begin its work by electing countries to serve on its Executive Board. The elections, held in the 54-member Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), will enable the new Board to come together prior to the official establishment on 1 January 2011 of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). The 41 board members were selected on the following basis: 10 from Africa, 10 from Asia, 4 from Eastern Europe, 6 from Latin America and the Caribbean, 5 from Western Europe and 6 from contributing countries. Elected from the African Group were Angola, Cape Verde, Congo, C?te d?Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Lesotho, Libya, Nigeria and Tanzania. Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Republic of Korea and Timor-Leste were elected from among the Asian States. Estonia, Hungary, Russia and Ukraine were elected from among the Eastern European States, while Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Sweden were elected from the Western European and Other States. In addition, the Council elected Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada and Peru from the group of Latin American and Caribbean States. The Council also elected Mexico, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Spain, United Kingdom and United States from among the ?contributing countries,? for three-year terms beginning today. The 35 members elected from the regional groups will serve two-year and three-years, beginning today, as determined by the drawing of lots. Chosen to serve two-year terms were Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, C?te d?Ivoire, DRC, El Salvador, Estonia, France, India, Italy, Lesotho, Libya, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Tanzania and Timor-Leste. Angola, Cape Verde, China, Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Grenada, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Peru, Republic of Korea, Sweden and Ukraine were selected to serve three-year terms. Headed by former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet, UN Women is the merger of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues, and the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW). The new agency was established on 2 July by a unanimous vote of the General Assembly to oversee all of the world body?s programmes aimed at promoting women?s rights and their full participation in global affairs. One of its goals will be to support the Commission on the Status of Women and other inter-governmental bodies in devising policies. It will also aim to help Member States implement standards, provide technical and financial support to countries which request it, and forge partnerships with civil society. Within the UN, it will hold the world body accountable for its own commitments on gender equality. In carrying out its functions, UN Women will be working with an annual budget of at least $500 million ? double the current combined resources of the four agencies it comprises. ________________ For more details go to UN News Centre at http://www.un.org/news To change your profile or unsubscribe go to: http://www.un.org/apps/news/email/ From shuyer at wigsat.org Thu Nov 18 05:37:31 2010 From: shuyer at wigsat.org (Sophia Huyer) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:37:31 +0100 Subject: [Wigsat-l] 2010 UNESCO Science Report Message-ID: <57E05539-F3DB-4276-B72E-7E194A7D6F64@wigsat.org> 17 November 2010 2010 UNESCO Science Report While the USA, Europe and Japan may still be leading the global research and development (R&D) effort, they are increasingly being challenged by emerging economies, especially China. This is one of the findings of the 2010 UNESCO Science Report, which features UIS data on R&D. The UNESCO Science Report depicts a rapidly changing landscape. While investment in R&D is growing globally (in volume)*, emerging economies are clearly gaining strength in science and technology, according to UIS data. This can be seen especially in terms of Asia?s share of gross domestic expenditure on research and development (GERD). Led mainly by China, India and the Republic of Korea, Asia?s share increased from 27 to 32% between 2002 and 2007. Over the same period, the three heavyweights, the European Union, USA and Japan, registered a decrease. In 2002, almost 83% of R&D was carried out in developed countries; by 2007, this share had dropped to 76%. This trend is even clearer when industry?s contribution to GERD is considered. Between 2000 and 2007, the private sector share of R&D spending, as a proportion of GDP, saw a sharp increase in Japan, China, Singapore and especially the Republic of Korea, while it remained stable in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom and even saw a slight decrease in the Russian Federation and the USA, according to UIS data. The Science Report was written by a team of international experts. It presents an overview of global trends in science and technology, based on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative indicators produced by the UIS and other organizations. It is divided into chapters devoted to the various regions, with spotlights on certain individual countries. For more information: Consult the UNESCO portal to download the full report, executive summary, press release and other information available in various languages. The UIS has prepared three fact sheets on: ? human resources invested in R&D ? R&D expenditure ? women in science. Consult the UIS Data Centre for the the latest available data on science and technology. * The share of world GDP devoted to R&D reached 1.7% in 2007, a percentage comparable to that for 2002, but the amount in US dollars rose from US$ 790 billion to US$ 1,146 billion, a growth of 45%. This is slightly greater than the growth in GDP for the same period (43%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics | CP 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville | Montreal, QC H3C 3J7 | Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shuyer at wigsat.org Mon Nov 22 03:19:27 2010 From: shuyer at wigsat.org (Sophia Huyer) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:19:27 +0100 Subject: [Wigsat-l] IIRR 2011 training courses Message-ID: Dear Friends in Development: Greetings from IIRR! We are pleased to inform you of IIRR's course offering for 2011. The details are in the attached course announcement. Please help us share the information with your colleagues and networks. We will be glad to respond to your queries. Many thanks! -- ___________________ Dulce Dominguez Regional Center for Asia International Institute of Rural Reconstruction Y.C. James Yen Center, Silang, Cavite 4118 Philippines Tel./fax: (63-46) 414-3216 Mobile: (63-917) 6119390 Email: Dulce.Dominguez at iirr.org Dulce.Dominguez at gmail.com www.iirr.org * Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 2011 IT.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 112073 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: