• For the participants to learn more about eachothers’ work
• To level-off on an overview of current web-based initiatives in the BPFA review

• Participants present web projects (15-20 mins each)

Presentation to emphasise the following:

• Objectives of the site
• Intended audience
• Planning and decision-making process
• Production workflow
• who does what, when , how … linkages
• from sourcing information to publishing on web
• maintaining
• responding to user feedback
• Technical resources, support, costs
• Problems and challenges
• How is the site publicised

• Systems administrator, webmaster
• Content person doing technical work (because noone else seems to want to do it within Isis, but enjoys doing it)
• Self-taught, not formally trained, learnt HTML by reading source code, also lack of community trainers in Phillipines, mid-90s

• Isis BPFA work via AWORC site

• Runs own server

• Currently handing over web site management to other Isis team members

• Owns own server (Linux)

• Outsources technical, but part of empowerment process to learn linux, make own website (always made own website)
• Uses dreamweaver, photoshop, outsources all graphics (outsource people send fonts so they can make minor button changes

• Canadian English and French, as well as Francophone internationally

• Each change to site announced to mailing list, sees effectiveness of this publicity in webstats

• Librarian/researcher/information officer, web builder
• Network of shared databases of women’s organisations in region, cooperative approaches to ICTs, Internet-based information service and network
• Objective of this area of site: to share regional B+5 review information
• Not technical but attends to content, logistical, admin matters. Did some HTML in college
• Pi introducing Cheekay to basic linux commands, as faster means to move around server.

• Initially sourced content by reading, talking – Pi to mark up.
• Now Cheekay maintains/updates B+5 area.
• Didn’t realise information would flow so much
• "political librarians" sending information.
• Conducts web/mailing list onsite reporting during regional NGO conferences is onsite reporting. One person from AWORC at meeting, sending email to Isis to put onto website. (contingency plans – attachments/templates when onsite Internet connection slow)
• Planning and decision process: Content currently coming in fast (endorsements from women’s groups in region). Day-to-day decisions – shares responsibility with Chat as AWORC coordinator

• Site automatically mirrored to JCA-Net. (B+5 section uploaded to Isis server. No access to JCA server)

• Asia Pacific women’s organisations

• as with Sharon, sends update notices to mailing lists – not sure the effectivenesss but seems to be getting a lot of hits. Also gives out flyers at conferences
• (organised AWORC information) Received reports, emails – responsible to HTML. People don’t send HTML version.
• Abstracts - Cheekay makes own abstracts from magazines, reports etc. This takes a lot of time, hasn’t been updated for a long time.
• Copyright – magazines ask to be credited.
• AWORC in charge of regional NGO review process. Problem was initially how to get information, now how to manage all this information in fast-moving region.

• Director, ALAI Women’s Programme
• Communications for feminists and women’s movements from Latin America region.
• Bilingual
• Not a technical person. Uses resources (content-focus)
• B+5 long process APC WNSP since 1995 - offered to start managing and organising information – women’s NGOs to UN
• Internet community of interrelated for social movements in Latin America – looking for common point of reference – women, peasants, human rights, blacks, ecology, (progressive)
• Each group has regional coordination and interrelated linkages / common space, contributing to social construction of ICT
• B+5 page to come
• Idea about B+5 maybe not just regional – think that UN review is only important for a small sector of the women’s movement - while most believe important to think of future – space for putting together ideas for next century women’s movement. Latin America women debate policy, don’t want to be institutionalised and following UN agenda, prefer to generate own ideas and policies (via collaboration with movimentos)

• Each day receives email or electronic fax.
• Difficult to manage information.

• Search: most important movements have common page, search interface – by subject, by organisation, type of org, by country, language, etc. Aims to organise information, not have isolated pages
• Technical assistance: external specialist for some things – in-house specifications (?) problem of tech women work short time then go to private sector.
• Long-time server in Equador, looking to have own server (for speed)

• Registering social groups: work as an open network. Each member suggests /provides own information, what is important. 7 languages. The organisations own the dynamics
• Each movement uploads their own info, codes themselves. Technical assistance is provided by ALAI. Open network.

• Been working 20 years so has strong relationships with movements, + print background, journalists

• Sonja maintains and updates the site. Developes new features, does a lot of things, never gets through to-do list
• Womensnet a collaborative process – group of women mainly from Africa (and all of africa)

• via mailing list – additions, new sections and/or resources (features)
• Women and radio – community radio project
• Want a means for everyone to submit everyones information and upload.
• Do raw coding, wants to switch to dreamweaver.

[Lin Pugh will present in full during plenary]

• APC WNSP
• Karen B looking for someone to start putting info online, coordinating resources, stumbled into it J

• NGOs, women’s groups internationally
• Planning: web team desired.
• Challenges: input/representation from all regions, not to sit in a corner and produce a site without interactions – also diversity.
• Technical: hosted at GN (direct access to server) has (remote?) FTP set up already.

• Content person / women’s employment
• Learnt HTML by looking at codes. Not much time working on updating site.
• EWL is umbrella organisation for women’s groups in european member states
• Political advocacy organisation: towards EU / women’s rights, and to inform women in EU to act politically
• Involved in Womenaction when boss met with Lin Pugh
• Discussing amongst selves re content for website to increase political advocacy re women input into b+5, interesting to mobilise women

• Uses ‘quickpages’ - basic structure
• Were involved in oneworld.org but dissapointed with oneworld’s web editing tools
• Noone working on web management re workflow is a problem
• Recently had 5-person Eastern/Central Europe training in London – ideas that organisations will input (calendar, links, resources) cover as much as possible in regional site
• Language problem re sites in Europe – french/english is limiting.
• Wanting to work better as a team (one-two-person team). Wants to learn tools to work together on web
• IIAV will be charged to collect and web publish alternative national reports (from fax, email, hardcopy)
• Alternative reports can be structured in any way – make summaries? Hardcopy to online, online to hardcopy.

• only 5 trained in region
• Challenge of working with (member organisation) politically active women with little background in IT – each has coordiator who compiles information (?). IIAV is the only information network organisation in region.

• Quite good networks to reach women’s groups, but everytime something used on the internet, all women keep asking for hard copy. – don’t have internet access… both ways repackaging.

• New staff member at NGO organisation, working closely with women in development – one centre of Prime Minister of Tonga. 6 staff members. (Affiliated with Fiji YWCA?)
• Organisation founded in 1950s, now govt keen to work with them.
• Gender focal point, organisation + 2 govt consultants running workshops/consultation (gender training awareness, correct definitions) there and on other islands re national gender policy (B+5), awareness raising
• Funders include Pacific YWCA Fiji, UNIFEM, UNDP (not much)
• Currently no website – sent here to learn how to build website. Uses email and hopes to establish website (requires training in Tonga)

• Webmaster / trainer
• APWINC 3 years old. APWINC (online publishing) dependant on sister organisation: women’s research (offline documenting).
• Projects: 3 parts –
• Active Bridge women’s database, mapping the world: Search/directory women’s organisations/informations.
• Q&A system, eg how do I build a website? System returns answer.
• Digital library: Web information service / bbs "wom link"

• 3 parts APWINC:
• content development team (1, with several student volunteers – scanning, writing text files etc) - Librarians decide content/categories (published on web) categories. Distribute offline data / publications to text file. Text file comes to web team. Web team makes html document for website (also many volunteers).
• technical team
• web development team (3)

• Own servers - Sun Solaris – 1 used for website, 1 (planned) for Korean women’s organisations to share. Some free, some charged – not expensive (USD40/yr).

• Technical/documentation coordinator (B. CS and Philosophy)
• WFS contributors were not computer literate in early – mid 90s.
• WFS a print disseminatation service until 92/93, then electronic
• Influence public policy, create awareness, creative writing, lobbying

• Information sourcing has not been difficult. Asia, SE Asia, Far East, Latin America, etc – contributors in all regions.
• Take issues and editors decide which are the main points at any particular time.
• Planning website, haven’t decided how to proceed – start taking a course in web architecture

• Mainstream media, alternative media, researchers, want everyone to be included – if they cant get web, should get print.

• Involved in AWORC web planning
• Working towards infrastructure to support cultural/community-based projects and innovative netcasting initiatives.
• Works at university for accessible online learning.

IIAV WWW OPAC Mapping the World