PLENARY

PRESENTATION OF BPFA-RELATED WEBSITES OR PLANNED WEB PROJECTS

Objectives:
• For the participants to learn more about each other's work
• To level-off on overview of current web-based initiatives in BPFA review

Presentation to emphasize the following:
• Objectives of the site
• Intended audience
• Planning and decision-making process
• Development and production process or work flow (who does what, when, how, do they outsource, trace the process from sourcing of information to getting the site running, maintainance/updates, and responding to user feedbacks)
• Technical resources (what technical support do you need, who provides technical support, what level of access to the web server do you have, what softwares are used, etc.)
• Problems or challenges encountered and how have these been solved or worked around
• How is the site publicised

THE GLOBAL WOMENACTION SITE

Objectives:
• For the Group to level-off in its understanding of the Womenaction project

Presentation to cover the following:
• History of site
• Current status
• Issues being discussed regarding site development and its relationship with the whole BPFA campaign.

Recap of Previous Day's Session and Presentation of Webscape

PRODUCTION PROCESS/WORKFLOWS

Objectives:
• To discuss concepts and practices in production process/workflow
• To define key roles and deliverables (outputs) for each stage

• Concept brief
• Planning
• Production
• Testing
• Launch and maintenance
• Wrap

TECHSHOP: SITE MANAGEMENT AND FACILITATION

Objectives:
• To provide a space for national/regional/thematic website managers to learn about 'advanced' tools and applications they can use in development of their own sites

Presentation by Justina Curtis, c2o and AWORC

• distributed publishing systems - remote forms-based publishing without need to know HTML (JC demo cgi-based site admin tools)
• groupware (eGroups, APC Toolkit)
• other tools? (Participants to suggest on list prior to workshop, demo during this session)
• Group discussion of their experience using these or similar tools. Were they useful? Were they easy to setup/use? How did they affect output?

USABILITY TESTING AND WEB STATS/FEEDBACK INTEGRATION

Objectives:
• To discuss issues in usability and user monitoring
• To discuss integration of user feedback into the site's development cycle

• The theory and the reality: How to conduct usability testing.
• Also a look at methods used by Sun Microsystems etc and how to do this realistically.
• Analysing your web statistics: How to integrate this as feedback into the web site development cycle.
• Discussion and sharing of participants' own methods,

TECHSHOP: INDEXING AND SITE ORGANIZATION

Objectives:
• To discuss the need for shared keywords among BPFA-related sites and strategies towards distributed databases and shared searching facilities.
• To discuss issues in site organization, navigation and labeling as they relate to the Womenaction global site
• To demonstrate some tools/implementation of searching facilities

• APWINC present "Yahoo for Women" project.
• AWORC's multi-lingual search mechanism and keywords/thesaurus
• General discussion on site organisation, navigation and labeling. How this impacts on Global web strategy.

WRITING FOR THE WEB

Objectives:
• To discuss critical issues in representation of women's voices on the web
• To share experiences in handling these issues from web develpment perspective
• To come up with recommendations towards an editorial policy for the global site

• What type of voice to use on the web? What is appropriate to the audience?
• Editorial standards
• Validity of information: the responsibility of writers (especially re sensitive political content) to provide verifiable material

TECHSHOP - WEB AUTHORING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

Objectives:
• To share tools, tips and expertise
• To explore shared "resource basket" for web development

• Discuss web authoring software: What are people using, how do they use it, how people manage web projects day-to-day especially if working in a team.
• Hybrid web tools (e.g., Macromedia Fireworks): Moving from traditional standalone softwares towards integrated web production tools.
• Discussion on accessibility/usability issues re: Shockwave, Portable Document Format, Zip, Microsoft Office file formats, RealMedia, ShoutCast, etc etc.
• Coder's corner: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Server includes or hard-coded templates.
• Designer's corner: cool Photoshop / PaintShopPro tricks.

• Expand "Resource basket" on womenaction.org to include resources for women web developers and managers of the global Women2000 network. Alternatively, womenaction provides links to these spaces on regional/local sites.
• Compendium of links to sites frequented by web developers
• Possibly the start of a women's web development bank: private space for depositing images, scripts, soundfiles, tools to share with others in the networkRecommendations towards an editorial policy for the global site

INTEGRATED MEDIA STRATEGIES

• Keeping grasp of reality, accessibility issues.
• How/where does a web site fit in with traditional media formats.
• The web site as one component of a campaign.

CONTINGENCY PLANNING

Objectives:
• To identify documentation, support and training needs of the different web teams
• To discuss strategies for addressing weaknesses and problems in site continuity, security and integrity.

• Identify documentation, support and training needs.
• Discuss how the web site survives when key people are unavailable to work on it.
• Identify weaknesses -- server down, server hacked, (APC Rapid Response mirroring network?) backing up and restoring from backup, etc.-- and ways of addressing these
• Discuss ways of ensuring author rights and and copyright clearances when using someone else's work.

PLANNING: WHERE TO FROM HERE?

Objectives:
• To discuss critical links with other tracks
• To come up with concrete recommendations for developing intergacing of loca/regional/global sites
• To come up with recommendations for addressing gaps in content, workflow and technical issues in developing the global site.

• Inputs and/or evolving plans from T2 and T3
• Planning

Planning to focus on on the ff:
• interfacing the local/ regional/ global.
• links with other tracks
• plans for womenaction.org
• gaps in content, workflow, tech,
• flag possible options or actions for addressing these gaps.APWINC present "Yahoo for Women" project.

• A matrix of what is being done via participating local, regional and global websites, gaps in content, workflow and tech
• Plan of Action
• Identification of womenaction.org design/maintenance person or team
• Summary of Track 1 to input to other tracks

TRACK WRAP UP

Objectives:
• To evaluate the track objectives, content, and methods.