Re: draft announcement
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Re: draft announcement
hi pi,
thnks for the quick work. here are my comments.
>I suggest we run through this draft before sending it over to aworc-meet
>and Yukihori of ESCAP for comments.
good idea to send it to Yukie Hori.
>Chat has posted a rough scehdule, and I agree that we need step on the
>accelerator. I have changed the deadline of application to April 30. It's
>more realistic since I don't think the announcement can come out before the
>28th of March.
No problem.
>ANNOUNCEMENT: 2000 ASIAN WOMEN'S ELECTRONIC NETWORK TRAINING WORKSHOP
>(WENT2000)
>
>
>Asian Women's Resource Exchange
>Women's Electronic Network Training Workshop
>19 - 24 June 2000
>Sookmyung Women's University
>Seoul, South Korea
>
>Asian Women's Resource Exchange (AWORC) is an Internet-based women's
>information service and network in Asia. AWORC develops cooperative
>approaches and partnerships in increasing access to and exploring
>applications of new information and communication technologies (ICT) for
>women's empowerment. It also expands existing regional networks in the
women's
>movement, promotes electronic resource sharing and builds a regional
>information service to support women's advocacies, specifically those
>critical for women in Asia.
>
>AWORC members include women's information, resource and documentation
>centers, women's information providers and users, communications
>organizations working closely with women's networks.
>
>AWORC seeks to contribute to the assessment process in Asia through
>developing regional women's Internet-based information and communication
>channels. AWORC's website now highlights resources, activities and
>organizations of women in the region and serves as a channel for women's
>organizations to exchange information on the review process. AWORC's
>website address is http.//www.jca.apc.org/aworc
>
>Last year AWORC organized the "Asian Women's Electronic Network Training
>Workshop" (WENT99) to train participants on basic website development tools
>and and other Internet-based group communication (e-mail, mailing lists,
>newsgroups, etc.) so that women's organizations may effectively use the
>technology to exchange and disseminate information on the five-year review
of the inplementation of the Bejing Platform for Action (officially titled
Women 2000). Twenty-three women from eleven
>Asian countries participated in the training workshop which was held on
>June 21- 26, 1999 at the Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, Korea.
>
>
>This year, AWORC will again be holding the "Asian Women's Electronic
>Network Training Workshop" (WENT2000) to train participants in running
>web-based information services, in using online communication tools to
>advanace their networking and advocacy work, and in developing databases.
>The focus of the workshop is to assist women's organizations in building
>their capacities to develop and sustain their use of new information and
>communication technology.
>
>GOALS
>
>The goals of the training workshops are:
>
>1.To train women's information providers in the use of group communication,
>web development tools, and databases to be able to provide meaningful
>activities of their organizations, networks and localities.
>
>2.To develop and increase the level of cooperation and networking mong
>women's information providers and existing women's information networks in
>the region.
>
>3.To promote the appropriate use of information and communication
>technology in the regional women's movement.
>
>4.To train women's information providers who will be able to assist other
>women in the use of Internet services and tools.
>
>
>PROGRAMME
>The workshop is composed of three parallel instructional tracks. All
>participants will engage in extensive hands-on training--running online
>discussion groups, using actual Internet resources and developing prototype
>databases--using the Workshop facilities. The tracks will be led by
>trainers from different women's organizations who are library
>administrators, database developers, web developers, systems admnistrators
>and who have extensive experience in running training workshops.
>
>
>
>**************** PLEASE NOTE THAT AWORC RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ALTER THE
>FOLLOWING PROGRAMME BASED ON DEMAND, SKILLS AND TRAININIG NEEDS OF ACCEPTED
>PARTICIPANTS. A MORE COMPREHENSIVE COURSE OUTLINE WILL BE MADE PUBLIC BY
>MID-MAY 2000. ****************
>
>
>Track 1: Web-based Information Service
>---------------------------------------------------------
>
>Who should attend: providers and would-be providers of web-based
>information services.
>
>Prerequisites: some experience in writing webpages, or as a webmaster, or
>as a web designer.
>
>Coverage: design and set-up quality Web-based information services.
>concepts of information architecture, usability, accessibility, website
>management, XML, open content, and open source/free softeware tools. this
>is NOT as basic html training course nor a programmers' course.
>
>The course is a mixture of presentations and demonstrations with emphasis
>on hands-on practical experience. Emphasis will be given on collaborative
>learning and group work.
>
>Goals: Enhance ability to design and set-up quality Web-based information
>services; understanding how these services can advance your organization's
>missions and goals; ability to support other information providers and
>users from participants' own organization and/or network.
>
>
>Track 2: Working Online
>-----------------------------------
>
>Who should attend: social and policy advocacy workers and activists who are
>using or are planing to use electronic communication tools to support their
>work and networks.
>
>Prerequisites: some experience in using email
>
>Coverage: plan, set-up and run mailing lists. facilitation and moderation
>of online discussion groups. using group work tools. concepts of working
>online, archiving, online communication and group work tools and resources.
>
>The course is a mixture of presentations and demonstrations with emphasis
>on hands-on practical experience. Emphasis will be given on collaborative
>learning and group work.
>
>Goals: Ability to plan, set-up and run mailing lists. Ability to facilitate
>online discussions groups. Ability to use group work tools. Technical
>experience in mailing lists and email is NOT necessary.
>
>
>Track 3: Basic Course in Database
>--------------------------------------------------
>
>Who should attend: library or resource center staff, would-be database
>developers, information providers working with databases.
>
>Prerequisites: some experience is using database and database management
>tools. participants who are tasked by their organizaitons to maintain
>databases will be prioritized.
>
>Coverage: plan, design and set-up a simple database using open source
>tools. concepts of database structure, relational database, indexing,
>search engines, database management, database migration. Emphasis in on
>developing database using free software.
>
>The course is a mixture of presentations and demonstrations with emphasis
>on hands-on practical experience. Emphasis will be given on collaborative
>learning and group work.
>
>
>ELIGIBILITY
>
>The Regional Training Workshop is open to women who meet the following
>criteria:
>
>1. Active involvement in her organization's information work. Preference is
>given to information officer/staff and experience in women's network/s.
>
>2. Organization is engaged in any of the following: (a) information
>sharing, (b) resource center, (c) policy and social advocacy work, (d)
>community outreach and organizing, (e) women's and fgender research, (f)
>training.
>
>3. Has basic to intermediate computer-literacy.
>
>4.Fair to good knowledge of English language.
>
>5.Willingness to participate in a women's information network in Asia and
>the Pacific.
>
>6.Willingness to share the knowldge, skills and resources she will acquire
>from the training with other women.
>
>7.Willingness to work in a group-focused environment and process.
>
>8.Capacity to receive a week-long training conducted in university
>classrooms and student dormitory with shared rooms.
>
>
>
>LOCATION
>
>WENT2000 will be held at the Sokmyung Women's University in Seoul, Korea
>located about one-half hour from the center of Seoul. The Sookmyung Women's
>University, a pioneer in "women's informatization", is the ideal venue
>for women's electronic network training. Located in a women-friendly
>community, the univerisity has first-rate traininng and computing
>facilities. The Asia Pacific Women's Information Network Centre, which is
>based at Sookmyung Women's University, will be hosting WENT2000
apwin URL (?)
. For more
>information about the University, please see: http://www.sookmyung.edu.kr
>
>
>WORKING LANGUAGE
>
>The working language of the workshop will be English. Fair comprehension of
>spoken and writen English will be required of each participants. Some
>members of the training team and the secretariat will have some degree of
>profiency in languages other than English.
>
>
>DATES
>
>Participants should plan to be at the workshop location on or before 8:00
>am of June 19, 2000, and leave Seoul by June 21, 2000. A regional symposium
>on women and information and communication technology is scheduled on June
>22, 2000. All participants are required to attend the symposium.
1. suggest that participants should arrive by the Evening of June 18.
2. you must have the date of departure wrong -- should be June 26
3. Regional symposium should be on Thrusday morning June 22 and break in
the afternoon.
June 18 - arrival
June19 - 21 - Day 1 to day 3
June 22 - symposium and break
June 23 - 24 - day 4 - day 5
June 25 - presentation of output (am) ; graduation in the evening
>APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION
>
>Interested parties should fill out the application form and send it to
>went2000-apply@isiswomen.org. Deadline for submission of application forms
>is April 30, 2000. Application can be sent via email, fax, or post.
>
>------------- draft announcement --------------------
>
>
>note: i will send application in separate email so as not to mess up our
>work. :-)
okey that's all,
Chat
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