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Gender divide/gap in Pan-European Dialogue on Internet Governance

Valentina Pellizzer
Valentina Pellizzer on 29 July, 2010 - 20:45
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Valentina Pellizzer is the executive directress of the OneWorld - platform for southeast europe Foundation (owpsee). She also acts as the board member of APC.

Valentina Pellizzer, OneWorld Platform for SouthEast Europei (owpsee) executive directress, participated in this year's EuroDIG – Pan-European Dialogue on Internet Governancei, and has several objections to the very visible gender gapi in terms of women's participation at the event, and in the IT sector in general. Her commentary was originally written for the Diplo Interneti Governance Community Blogi. We carry the full text of her commentary.

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Trafficking in human beings: Internet recruitment

Athanassia P. Sykiotou
Athanassia P. Sykiotou on 20 July, 2010 - 15:15
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Lecturer in Criminology, Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)

Council of Europe, trafficking in women,

This study is one of the outputs of the project on the Misuse of the Interneti for the recruitment of victims of trafficking in human beings launched by the Council iof Europe, and funded by the Governmenti of Monaco. The study documents the various ways in which victims are recruited via the internet, and anticipate possible future techniques. It also highlights some of the best practices used to combat this misuse of the internet, and makes recommendations on legal, judicial, administrative and technical means of combating use of the internet for trafficking in human beings. The study is based on data collected from 22 member stateis of the Council of Europe.

 
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Health & Development Networks (HDN)

Website: http://www.healthdev.org/
HDN is a non-profit organization that works to improve communication, expand discourses and promote self-representation in the HIV/AIDS and related health fields on international, regional and national levels. They are currently active in three regions - Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. Among others, they also seek to target countries that are often overlooked, such as those with poor interneti connectivityi.
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BC Rural Women's Network

Website: http://www3.telus.net/bcwomen/rural/
The BC Rural Women's Network is both a website and communication network to share information with rural women about ongoing advocacyi for change based on rural women's recommendations for change.
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FemCities

Website: http://www.femcities.at
Website offers information on women’s projects, a calendar of women related events, comprehensive media reports, culture and news about relevant political developments. An important feature is the extensive directory of contact persons and institutions concerned with such issues as equal opportunities, economy, politics or science.
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APC Women's Networking Support Program in Europe

Website: http://www.apcwomen.org/
The APC Women’s Networkingi Support Programme (APC WNSP) in Central and Eastern Europe was established as part of the global APC WNSP in June 2004 as a follow up of the Gender and ICTsi Evaluationi Methodology (GEM) project. WNSP Europe has members who are active in women's and ICTs-focused organisations in the region and who work to support women’s movement in its access and strategic usei of new information and communication technologies.
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World Association for Christian Communication Women's Programme

Website: http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/our_work/projects/gender
WACC Women's Programme advocates full and equal participation of women in public communication so that it is enriched by women's distinctive needs, insights and experiences.
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GenderChanger Academy

Website: http://www.genderchangers.org
The Gender Changer Academy is a nonprofit organisation by women for women, its primary goal being to improve women's understanding and skills with regards to computer hardware.
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Association for Progressive Communications

Website: http://www.apc.org/
The Association for Progressive Communicationsi (APC) is an international network of social technology organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups working for social justice and sustainable development through the strategic usei of ICTs since its founding in 1990. Through the Communications and Information Policy Programmei (CIPP) and the APC Women's Networking Support Programmei (WNSP) APC is implementing global and regional ICT policyi projects that raise awareness, build capacity, tools and information resources to strengthen civil society participation in decision-making.
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