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WomenAction2000 Global Women's Networking Training Workshop


NOTES - Day 1 - Monday September 27th 1999

Global Website

Global Website Paper written up by Lin Pugh prior to Seoul Workshop


Global Website Strategy

In developing the website strategy we need to ask the questions what, where, when, why, how, who.

Goals of this planning:

  • to develop the possibilities and boundaries of the website
  • to determine the needs for the working meeting to set up the website
  • to determine the who has a task in the website development and what these tasks are
  • to develop the exact timeline for development



  • Definition phase

    These questions should be answered before we go into the design phase
    Goals and requirements
  • What are the primary goals of the site?
  • To provide an electronic networking platform for women’s NGO’s in developing strategies for Beijing + 5
  • To provide a platform on which national and regional alternative reports on the implementation of the BPFA are published

  • Who are the primary and secondary audiences? (describe interests, needs, skills)
  • Primary: national and regional women’s NGO’s involved in the lobby for the advancement of the position of women, in the context of the UN
  • Secondary: national and regional governmental organizations involved in the UN advancement of women program

  • What is the audience capacity ?- browser, speed, knowledge
    Will the site attract different audiences? Who? What are the areas of interest to each?
    Researchers
  • Comparisons of national achievements
  • Information on activities of women’s NGO
  • Heightened understanding of electronic needs of women’s NGO’s
  • Heightened knowledge of how to use Internet as a means of collecting and disseminating information

  • Media
  • Developments around the advancement of women
  • Examples of best practices
  • Need for EXAMPLES rather than pure background information

  • What is the key message?
    Existing content or new?
    What existing images are available?
    Do we need to capture user data? What do we need to know? Why?
    What new technologies will be used? Why?
    What information will change? How often and how extensively? Who will provide this? In what form?
    What is the budget?
    What are the plans to promote the site? Who is responsible for this activity?
    Proposed date of launch
    Where is the launch?
    Who is organizing it?
    What is it’s purpose?
    What is the budget?
    What has to be ready before the launch? The entire site? Should a discussion already be started?
    What is the specific task of the WFS in this?
    Are there other media we can easily involve?

    What activities are taking place at a regional level, that need to be built into the global design?
  • Discussions on themes (What is the relationship between the regional discussions and the global discussions and the WomenWatch discussions?)
  • Lists of web links
  • National alternative reports
  • Mapping the World database
  • Other databases
  • Calendars
  • Research

  • What activities are taking place within WomenWatch, that we have to connect to?
  • Media/ Section J Scorecard


  • Tone and personality
    What areas benefit from updating?
  • Discussions
  • Scorecard (?)
  • Web links


  • When does the site need to be complete?
    Who will approve the design work? What actions require approval?
    Should we set up a design approval committee?
    Who will host and maintain the site?
    Can and will Greennet continue to do this?
    How long is the site intended to last?

    Design phase
  • one solution agreed on, that meets the program of demands
  • test part of the design, also during training
  • prove the attainability of the design, in the week after the training
  • >write down these outcomes in a project design, to be ready by …


  • Preparatory phase
  • establish instructions for realisation of design
  • create tools where necessary
  • train people in skills needed for the realisation
  • create a detailed step-by-step planning with instructions
  • write down these outcomes in a realisation program


  • Realization phase
  • perform the tasks as defined in the realisation program
  • determine a maintenance program, to include maintenance of the site and the tools


  • Maintenance phase



    Last Updated on 20/10/99
    By Karen Banks