Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:30:56 -0400
From: :Yacine KHELLADI <[email protected]>

New Technologies of Communication (NICT"NTIC�traen deep changes to our communities. They ) Appropriate they Can NICT to really make a difference? They convince us that the globalization and the society of information that emerge, the status of the women will advance in the society or they will reinforce its marginalizaci�n. The women from the Africa already have a net and they organize their actions. The appropriate application of NICT can allow women to have access to the information and the knowledge to overcome the realities of the poverty and of the exclusion. The world conference of the United Nations on the women of 1995 (UNWCW) it was an important impulses for the advances of the women in the use of NICT During the preparatory phase of the UNWCW, the women were pioneer in making use of the electronic mail for the exchange of information, I lobby and to make campaign. However the Internet was a relatively new tool for the women, those that consented and they learned how to use it they were quick to have its potential and to facilitate the calendars of UNWCW. The development of NICT is happening in a global context of the inequalities of the gender.

In Africa differences exist among the women in terms from the access to the education, to land, to the credit, to the instruction, etc. The gender you intersecta with many other differences of the women and it also changes the necessities and the experiences of NICT for women, for example: race, ethnos, class, culture, age, history, sexual orientation, geographical location, inability. The poverty, the war and the endemic violence against women are always current realities in the life of many women that live in Africa.

influence like we know and we understand the world. They change the work methods and the ways in which we communicate. They intervene how we have access and we share the information. They are also an important source of being able to. Having a team and the abilities to use them, we consent to that power"

The Internet: Getting Connected,
published by the African Gender Institute and Women's Net
APC Africa Women

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