<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">Dear all,</span></p><div>Apologies for re-sending an old message about the TWOWS General Assembly. Below is a message which was intended to go out, on the results of the conference.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>WIGSAT - Women, technology, society</div><div>Tel 1-416-479-0601</div><div>Fax 1-416-479-0263</div><div><a href="http://www.wigsat.org">www.wigsat.org</a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; "></span></p><div style="font-family: Optima; "><div>--</div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">The
TWOWS Fourth General Assembly and International Conference: </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">Women Scientists in
a Changing World w</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">as held on 27 - 30 June 2010 at the Beijing International
Convention Center (BICC), Beijing, China, hosted by the Chinese Academy of
Sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">Over
600 participants attended from 55 countries to present papers and hold
discussions on the scientific contributions of women in four areas: Women
Scientists and Frontiers of Sciences; Women Scientists and Global Change;
Women, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Leadership Capacity; and Gender
Mainstreaming in the Global Scientific Community. A Young Women Scientists’
Forum was also featured as part of the Conference.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">The
Conference was opened by </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(41, 63, 116); ">Xi Jinping,</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; "> Vice
President of the People’s Republic of China, and leading scientists and dignitaries
from around the world including Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science and
Technology, South Africa; Sharon Hrynkow, </span><span style="font-family: Optima; ">Senior Advisor to the
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science, US State
Department</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">,
Yongxiang Lu, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Mohamed Hassan,
Executive Director of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">The
Fourth General Assembly held at the same time produced several key results for
the Organization, introducing changes which will better position it to address
current global challenges and opportunities to support its emergence as the
leading organization of its kind:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">1) The name of the organization has been
changed to <b><i>Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSDW),</i></b>
to better reflect its focus on promoting both the greater participation of
women in science, technology and innovation as well as the use of science,
technology and innovation to better the lives of both women and men in the developing
world.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; "><o:p> 2) </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">A new President has been elected: Prof. Xin Fang is a research professor
and member of the Presidium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Supporting her on the Board are: </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="left" style="margin-left:1.0in;
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tab-stops:0in 2.0in 175.5pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">Africa: Dolly Ahbor Ighoroje (Nigeria), Vice
President; Esi Awuah (Ghana), Member <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="left" style="margin-left:1.0in;
mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;
tab-stops:0in 2.0in 175.5pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">Arab
States: Samira Omar (Kuwait), Vice
President; Rokhsana Abdul Raman (Yemen), Member <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:
auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:2.0in 175.5pt 2.75in"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">Asia and
the Pacific: Farida Habib Shah (Malaysia), Vice President; Sudha Nair (India),
Member<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:2.0in 175.5pt 2.75in"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">Latin
America and the Caribbean: Mayra de la Torre (Mexico), Vice President; Miriam
Diaz (Venezuela), Member.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">
</span></font></span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">A revised set of statutes was presented and
approved by the General Assembly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">4)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">
</span></font></span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">The Beijing Statement (<a href="http://www.twows.org/about-twows/beijing-statement">http://www.twows.org/about-twows/beijing-statement</a>)
was approved by the Conference and released on June 29, 2010. In view of the commitments
in the Platform for Action of 1995 Fourth United Nations World Conference on
Women, and the recommendations in Para 90 of the Framework for Action of the
World Conference on Science held in Budapest in 1999, the participants called
on governments and the international community to recognize, document and
highlight the contributions made by women to science, technology, engineering
and innovation and to take steps in policy and programming to ensure the full
participation of women and girls in all aspects of science and technology.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light'; ">More information is
available from the OWSDW website at <a href="http://www.twows.org">www.twows.org</a>.</span></p>
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