makeITfair - an EU Project Focussing on the Electronic Industry |
| 29 February 2008 |
| makeITfair is a European project focusing on the electronics industry, especially on consumer electronics like mobile phones, laptops and MP3 players. |
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Invitation: Women and ICTs at the European Feminist Forum |
| Christina Haralanova | 20 September 2007 |
| Since the end of last year a process has started to prepare the first
European Feminist Forum (EFF), planned for 13-15 June 2008. The EFF secretariat had called last year to start ’Affinity Groups’ on
different subjects to prepare the Forum, and so a group was started
focussing on women and tech, ICT, New Media - called ’agitate’ (Affinity
Group InformaTion And new TEchnologies). We are now looking for and inviting more women and women’s groups to join us in this process. The general aim of the group is to increase visibility of women in IT,
with a focus on FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) and new media. |
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Foundation CURE Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Taida Horozovic | 7 February 2007 |
| Foundation CURE works from Sarajevo city in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and is perhaps the only feminist activist groups that often organizes street actions for combating gender based violence, organizing artistic activist ventures, and in September 2006 organized the first festival of women arts in BiH entitled PitchWise. |
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The Network of East-West Women - Polska (NEWW) |
| Malgorzata Tarasiewicz | 1 February 2007 |
| Founded in 1991 NEWW is and international communication and resource
network supporting dialogue, informational exchange, and activism among
those concerned about the status of women in Central and Eastern Europe,
the Newly Independent States, and the Russian Federation. |
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Gender Education, Research and Technolgies Foundation |
| Jivka Marinova | 25 January 2007 |
Gender Education, Research and Technologies Foundation (GERT) is a Bulgarian not-for-profit organisation, whose mission is to initiate and implement, independently or in partnership with other NGOs activities targeted to enhance gender equality and social & gender justice in all spheres of social life, including access to and benefit from new technologies. |
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Ekviva.net: Regional Women Portal Launched |
| Eleonora Delova | 25 January 2007 |
| Last week, the regional women portal Ekviva.net was official launched. At the moment, the portal gathers information on women issues, as well as civil society topics, in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. It has an international editorial office with editors sitting in Zagreb, Split, Sarajevo, Tuzla and Belgrade. |
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OneWorld Southeast Europe Portal |
| Valentina Pellizzer | 24 January 2007 |
| In 2003, OneWorld Southeast Europe began as a portal initiative of text and audio news online linking the countries of the region. Today, it has grown into a recognized information service organization and partner for social change, collaborating with around 200 partner organizations across the region and the world. |
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