Women Crossing the Digital Divide
The speakers:
Susanna George
ISIS International - Manila, Philippines
Susanna George is currently the Executive Director
of ISIS International - Manila, a position she has held since 1998. At
ISIS, Susanna leads the organisation in its advocacy on women, media and
communications, networking and capacity building of women in information
and communications. Before joining ISIS, she has worked as coordinator
of the Communications Services of a regional programme of the UNDP and
has been active in the women's movement for twelve years. She has worked
at the regional level on gender and development issues and is keenly interested
in the growth of the women's movement. Furthermore, she elaborated a study
on the importance of ICTs (Information- and Communication Technologies)
for women´s organizations and movements in seven asian countries. Susanna
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Third World Politics and Economics
from Hampshire College, Massachusetts, USA. In her free time, she harnesses
her skills and creative talents in film making. susanna@isiswomen.org
www.isiswomen.org
Judith Gracey
FAO, Dimitra
Judith Gracey, born the 17th of August in 1971 in
the United Kingdom, obtains a Bachelor of Arts Joint Hons in Business
Administration / French Language and Literature (The Queen's University
of Belfast) and has a Postgraduate Diploma in European Business Administration.
After her studies she worked as communication co-ordinator, information
& communication project manager and web editor for international enterprises
in Belgium. Since April 2002 she is Project Officer for an information
and communication project, called the Dimitra Project, Rural Women and
Development for rural women in Africa and the Near East, initiated by
the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. She
discusses topics like information as a human right for women, activities
of FAO and other UN-organizations in the field of ICTs and gendered development
programmes/projects and the access of rural women to information.
dimitra@dimitra.org
www.fao.org/sd/dimitra
Djurdja Knezevic
Zenska Infotéka, REWIND NET, Croatia
Djurdja Knezevic, born 1952 in Croatia, graduated
History and Archeology at the University of Zagreb. She was for more than
twenty-five years active in the women's movement and organizations in
former Yugoslavia and Croatia. In 1990 she became the first coordinator
of the Independent Association of Women in Croatia and was a co-founder
of the Center for Women War Victims in Zagreb/Cro and the Women's Infoteka
- Women's Information and Documentation Center in Zagreb in 1992. Since
1994, Djurdja Knezevic works as chief editor of the feminist magazine
Bread and Roses (Kruh i ruhe) and since 1995 as a book publisher. She
is member of the first (establishing) board of Central European University
- Gender and Culture Programme and contact person for Croatia in WISE
(Women International Studies in Europe). Furthermore she developes and
coordinates the international project REWIND NET since 2000. During all
these years of activities, she published numbers of articles, essays,
interviews and organized many national/regional conferences and seminars,
concerning mostly women´s issues.
dknezevic@inet.hr
www.zinfo.hr
Dorothy Okello
WOUGNET/Uganda
Dorothy Kabagaju Okello from Uganda is a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical
Engineering at the McGill University - Montréal, Canada and her current
research interest lies in broadband satellite networking. Already during
her studies she gained several academic awards. She participated in career
guidance missions of the Women Engineers, Technicians and Scientists in
Uganda (WETSU) and the Uganda Institute of Professional Engineers (UIPE).
Dorothy Okello is Africa Representative for the Gender and ICT Awards
Project Team as well as for the APC Women's Networking Support Programme
(APC-WNSP) Coordination Team. Since May 2000 she is the coordinator for
the Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) and therefore responsible for strategic
planning and development of WOUGNET programmes. WOUGNET is a non-governmental
organisation initiated in May 2000 by several women organisations in Uganda
to promote the use of ICTs among women. The goal of WOUGNET is to empower
women's organisations through access to information and to opportunities
for exchange and collaboration. Dorothy Okello has experience with web-portals
for women in Uganda and with the encouragement of women to use ICTs. dokello@wougnet.org
www.wougnet.org
Birgit Weiss
Austria
She is researcher at the department of Gender and Diversity in Organizations
at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and
involved in research projects on Gender, ICT and the Information Society.
She has been active in the women's movement and is the co-founder of Webwomen.at,
a network of women on the web in Austria. birgit.weiss@wu-wien.ac.at http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/gender/
Brigitte Voykowitsch (Facilitator)
Austria
Brigitte Voykowitsch was born in Vienna, Austria.
She studied History and is an academic interpreter and translator (English,
Spanish). She worked as a freelance translator, language instructor and
was research assistant at Clark University, USA.
Since 1981 she is a journalist and foreign news editor working for Austrian
Radio and various magazines like Der Standard.
She is focusing on development, human rights and women's issues and concentrating
on South and South East Asia.
She received the Concordia (Austrian Press Club) award and some alike.
She published two books ("Göttinnen und Frauenrechte: Indiens Töchter";
"Allah, Ram und Kricket: Indisch-pakistanische Konfrontationen", Picus
Vlg.).
Voyko@hotmail.com