Useful Links

We would like to acknowledge the work of AWORC especially in gathering many of these resources together. Please note: we have not included any of the actual materials from the AWORC (www.isiswomen.org/aworc) training kit, only URL references.

Some of the additional resources were identified in the WomenAction 2000 European Training, some have been kindly shared with us by Sangonet (www.sn.apc.org), the APC Member in South Africa.

Contents

Global web-sites
Africa
Asia/Pacific
Latin America
North America
Europe

Online Discussion/Group Communication
'Action'/Group Applications and tools
Sites to look at for design consideration
Overview of the Internet/How Women Use the Web
Searching for Information on the Web
Organising Information for the Web
Web Authoring
Building a Simple Web Site
Web Authoring Software
Strategies for Making Information Searchable

Women Action 2000

Global web-sites:
http://www.womenaction.org/
New WomenAction site for Beijing plus Five planning. More sections wil be added as funds and information become available.
http://www.oneworld.org/whrnet
New Women's Human Rights site still under construction, but some information already available.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cwgl/beijing.html
Center for Women's Global Leadership site, with special B+5 section.

Africa:
http://womensnet.org.za
Website for WomensNet, South Africa, including regular updates on all matters related to gender (including Beijing plus Five) in Africa, also international news
http://www.africaonline.co.ke/femnet
FEMNET Africa site, in English and French.
http://www.enda.sn/synfev/synfev.htm
Web-site of ENDA-Synfev, Senegal
http://www.famafrique.org
Famafrique : the web site of francophone African women
http://www.enda.sn/synfev/fainfo.htm
electronic information service in French about women in Africa
http://www.famafrique.org/toileindex.html
Bimonthly liaison bulletin for African women in the Francophonie
http://www.famafrique.org/fem2000.html
Femmes2000: Information in French about the preparations of Beijing+5 in Africa and worldwide
www.isis.or.ug
Isis-Wicce in Uganda
www.uct.ac.za/org/agi
African Gender Institute web site

Asia/Pacific:
http://www.isiswomen.org/womenet/links.html
Isis International/Manila's site for Asia/Pacific women.
http://www.jca.ax.apc.org/aworc
This site is run by the Asian Women's Resource Exchange (AWORC) for Asia/Pacific B+5 planning.
http://www.jca.apc.org/aworc/notes/ict/19990317.html
Part of the AWORC site for Asia/Pacific, includes good coverage of the Beijing Plus Five PrepCom and the beginnings of the Global Communications project (WomenAction 2000).

Latin America:
http://alainet.org
The ALAI web site out of Ecuador. English, French and Spanish
http://www.fempress.cl
The Fempress site out of Chile. Contains articles and other materials related to Beijing Plus Five. Spanish.
www.isis.cl
Isis Sisters in Chile

North America:
http://www.awid.org
Association for Women in Development
http://www3.sympatico.ca/criaw
CRIAW in Canada
www.uswc.org
WomenConnect USA
www.netfemmes.org/apropos/formindex.html
Netfemmes - Training on web and online promotion for women

Europe:
http://www.iiav.nl
International Archives for the Women's Movement in Amsterdam. There will soon be a new European B+5 site launched through them that will feature lots of information on NGO organising around Beijing plus Five in Eastern and Western Europe.

Sites to look at for design consideration
www.brettonwoodsproject.org
The Bretton Woods Project works to monitor and reform the World Bank and IMF
www.diversity-online.org
Diversity-onLine is being run for the International Media Working Group Against Racism and Xenophobia (IMRAX).
www.womesnet.org.za
Women’sNet South Africa
www.lifelonglearning.co.uk/greenpaper/
UK Government Department of Education
www.amnesty.org.uk
Amnesty International
www.oneworld.net
OneWorld Online

Online Discussion/Group Communication
www.netaction.org/training/
Virtual Activist - A Training Course
The Dialogue Handbook
A ten point action plan and practical handbook for facilitating groups of citizens using the Internet in projects aimed at fuller participation in society
www.jca.ax.apc.org/~lalamazi/train/netaction/training/
Japanese translation of Virtual Activist
www.idrc.ca/books/848.html
From Workplace To Workspace Using Email Lists to Work Together by Maureen James & Liz Rykert
www.albion.com/netiquette
Core Rules of Netiquette by Virginia Shea

www.idrc.ca/acacia/focus.htm#objectives
Acacia initiative which focuses on 4 African countries - Senegal, Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa and has gender as a cross-cutting issue.
www.un.org/Depts/eca/eca40th/doc.htm
Some papers from the African Women and Economic Development: Investing In Our Future 40th anniversary conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April/May 1998
www.famafrique.org
Francophone women's web site developed by Marie-Helene
www.uct.ac.za/org/agi/progproj/clip/getcon1.htm
A pamphlet to encourage gender activists to make effective use of the Internet
www.uct.ac.za/org/agi/gain/gindex.htm
Gender in Africa Information Network
www.oneworld.org/agenda
Web site of a South African feminist journal Agenda. Issue no 38 is called Techno-Innovation - gender and new communication technologies
docweb.pwv.gov.za
Gender, Youth and Disability desk of the Dept of Communications, South Africa
www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/f_aids/women_south.shtml
Women and the South and the International Conferences: Some resources available in the Rutgers University Libraries
www.fire.or.cr
FIRE - feminist interactive radio on the internet from Costa Rica

'Action'/Group Applications and tools

Overview of the Internet/How Women Use the Web
www.isoc.org/internet/history/
History of the Internet Overview of the Internet
research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/updates.html
Very comprehensive list of women's gender-related mailing and discussion list
women.or.kr
Asia-Pacific Women's Information Network Centre
www.jca.apc.org/aworc/bpfa/index.html
AWORC's BPFA Website
femina.cybergrrl.com/
Femina's Women's Directory
wwwomen.com/
WWWomen's Directory
www.igc.org/igc/womensnet/
IGC's Women's Net
womensnet.za.org/
Women's Net South Africa
www.mediawatch.ca/frames.htm
Media Watch, an organisation advocating positive portrayal or women in media and gender-fair media practice

Searching for Information on the Web
www.womenspace.ca/vol26f.html
Using Search Tools: Finding Information on the Information Highway, article by Denise Østed
www.lboro.ac.uk/info/training/finding/sink.htm
Internet Searching Tutorial
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
A tutorial to finding information on the Internet
www.terena.nl/libr/gnrt/
The Guide to Internet Resource Tools, includes extensive help on searching the Internet
people.ne.mediaone.net/walthowe/findit.html
A guide to search facilities on the Net

Organising Information for the Web
womensnet.org.za/about/curric.htm
Building a Web Site Together - How the Women's Net Site was Born
www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/design/tutorials/tutorial1.html
Squishy's Crash Course in Information Architecture
www.webreview.com/universal/previous/arch.html
Web Architect is Web Review's resource section for "Information Architects"

Web Authoring
www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/
Information about the development of HTML Standards
www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/html.html
What's a tag? How do you create an HTML document? Many of your basic HTML Questions are addressed here.
www.webreference.com/html/tutorial1/
www.webreference.com/html/tutorial2/
On-line Tutorials on Basic HTML.
www.builder.com/Authoring/Basics/?st.bl.fd.gs2.feat
Basic HTML tutorial delivered by Web Builder site
204.98.1.2/high/awest/learnhtml/00conten.htm
More on Basic HTML

Building a Simple Web Site
The I Train Collection(1)
The I Train Collection - Website Creation Manual Instructor
The I Train Collection(2)
The I Train Collection - Website Creation Manual Student
www.lighthouse.org
Lighthouse International - colour blindness and vision impairment issues
www.lynda.com
Web-safe' colours, palettes - Lynda.com
constraintsinfo.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/graphics/graphics.html
Image file size - Notes from Yale Style Guide
www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/html/96/47/index3a.html?tw=html
Webmonkey's Mastering Tables
www.pageresource.com/html/formhelp.htm
Exercise on forms from Web Design Resource Tutorial
www.response-o-matic.com
Free forms processor: Response-o-matic
www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/forms.html
Developer.com's HTML Goodies
www.cgi101.com/class/
CGI101: Good tutorial site explains CGI
www.freescripts.com
Freescripts: Free CGI Scripts
www.resourceindex.com
The CGI Resource Index
glassdog.com/design-o-rama/
Style Sheets - GlassDog Design-o-Rama

www.w3.org/Style/
Information about Web Style Sheets and How to use them
www.webreference.com/html
WebReference's 'HTML with Style'
webreview.com/wr/pub/guides/style/mastergrid.html
Web Review's 'Master list' of Cascading Style Sheet codes
webreview.com/wr/pub/guides/style/unsafegrid.html
Web Review's 'Danger List'
webreview.com/wr/pub/guides/style/safegrid.html
Web Review's 'Safe List'
www.builder.com/Programming/Javascript
JavaScript - C|NET Builder.com tutorial
www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/javascript/?tw=frontdoor
Webmonkey's JavaScript tutorial
webreference.com/js
WebReference's Doc JavaScript
javascript.internet.com
JavaScript Source
www.javascript.com
Javascript.com
www.w3c.org/WAI
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
www.microsoft.com/enable/
Microsoft Accessibility Site
www.useit.com
Jakob Neilson's UseIT.com
www.cast.org
Centre for Applied Special Technology's 'Bobby'
www.un.org/esa/socdev/disacc00.htm
United Nations 'Accessibility on the Internet'

Web Authoring Software
www.allaire.com
HomeSite (PC)
www.barebones.com
BBEdit (Macintosh)
www.luckman.com
WebEdit (PC)
www.cuteftp.com
CuteHTML (PC)
www.dreamweaver.com
Macromedia Dreamweaver (PC and Macintosh)
www.tucows.com (Main Website)
www.tucows.com/Asia.html (Asian Mirror Site)
Tucows is a popular site for people looking for sharewares and free softwares - for web authoring or other development tools

Strategies for Making Information Searchable
www.searchenginewatch.com
Search Engine Watch
www.webreference.com/dlab/books/html-pre/43-0.html
WebReference: 'HTML Unleashed: Strategies for Indexing and Search Engines'
www.submit-it.com/subopt.htm
Submit-it.com's 'Search Engine Tips'
www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/
Range of resources relating to metadata
www.altavista.com/av/content/addurl.htm
AltaVista's How to Submit URL
docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
Submitting URLs to Yahoo
www.hotbot.com/addurl.asp
HotBot's How to submit URLs


Last Revised: 27/03/2000
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