The International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics (iKNOW Politics) is an online workspace designed to serve the needs of elected officials, candidates, political party leaders and members, researchers, students and other practitioners interested in advancing women in politics. 

makeITfair is a European project focusing on the electronics industry, especially on consumer electronics like mobile phones, laptops and MP3 players. 

A research focusing on electronic industry in Poland shows that improvements of working conditions are very much needed. In Poland in recent years electronic industry has been developing at a very fast rate. This in itself positive for Polish economy development directed attention of NGOs to the working conditions in the electronic factories. KARAT is interested in it because most of the workers are women and the gender perspective is crucial in research in this sector. 

IT for Change is undertaking a collaborative research study with support from UNDP New York on ’ICTs for Participatory Local Development’, the outcomes of which will provide a roadmap for a systemic application of ICTs across development domains and processes, in a manner that transforms community- and citizen-centric dimensions of local development. 

Women have always played an important role in movements for social justice. Using media to transport their messages, to disrupt social orders and spin novel social processes, feminists have long recognised the importance of self-managed media to forge resistant identities and build coalitions. In fact, as Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi has found, "almost by dint of their existence alone, autonomous media controlled by women with women-defined output offer a challenge to existing hierarchies of power; when these media take up specific issues and campaigns, and align themselves with larger social movements, their political potential is significant" (1996:234). 

WITT is invited to present and the Southern California Linux Expo 2008! 

Some of the most profound changes in our world have come about as a result of struggles in the form of social movements. Often, these movements germinated in a handful of people who rose up against an entrenched injustice, then blossomed into mass mobilizations that have ended up toppling governments, deposing powerful leaders, ending military occupations, and bringing rights and freedoms to millions of people. This is the power of movements - what people without access to power cannot accomplish alone, they can accomplish together through collective action. 

This news WIDE publication provides an analysis of the role that key European Union institutions – the Council of Ministers, the European Commission, the EC Delegations, and the European Parliament – play in the definition of policy priorities in the areas of development, external relations and trade. 

The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and innovative studies in all areas of media and communication research (media production, media texts and media use and/or reception) that address the broad theme of the congress. Questions of gender within the field of communication and media can be approached at theoretical, methodological and/or empirical levels.