Web Information Service System for Supporting Women’s Information

• Asian Pacific Women's Information Network Center was established in November 1996
  
• Objectives: to promote information-technologies for women and women-related communication technologies in South Korea, North Korea and the Asia-Pacific region.

Activities

• UNESCO Chair project on communication technology for women (1998.6-2001.6)
• Governmental 1998 policy project (1998.12-1999.11)
• Web-information service on women-related issues and Beijing+5 (putting the East Asian Alternative NGO Report online)
• Providing training programs on ICT for women

• Governmental 1998 policy project (1998.12-1999.11)
• a Database of women's information services available online
• To facilitate easy access to gender-specific information services.
• Provide web directory & search services
• Sign-up system for women's organization and others
• provide web bord for each subject
• Meta-database of women-related websites WebRobot, Search Engine, DBMS

• Women-related information search by 12 thematic categories
• can be searched by name of org, country, city, subject, website url ,title and other key words
• can be searchable multimedia resource
• Boolean search (and,or,not)
• Truncation search (bpfa*,*bpfa, *bpfa*)
• Field,Phase search

· Data Entry Form available online and can be filled out by any women's organizations - name, address, phone #, fax #, profile, type, activities, url, contact person etc Data Editing Form available online so that organizations can update their data entry

Development

· Managing
- for sharing and exchange of women-related information - actively promoting the service to Korean women's groups, and other women's organizations in the Asia Pacific

· Expansion and refinement
- of more specialized information-technologies services for women