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ICT Capacity Building
“I will use the Internet to connect to sites about women’s empowerment so that I can use the information in my research. My plan is to create a website in cooperation with other colleagues so that we can express our views as young women.”
- ICT Workshop Participant, Palestine
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can sustain or deepen the power imbalance between men and women, rich and poor, the North and South. Those unfamiliar with ICT, and its use, making, or deployment, do not reap its rewards and are unable to compete successfully.
WLP’s ICT Capacity Building aims to harness ICT for the empowerment of women, and for collective mobilization and advocacy purposes.
We recognize the strategic potential of appropriate technologies to diminish the marginalization and isolation of women whose mobility is restricted by providing access to online ‘public’ spaces.
Not only do we endeavor to give women access to ICT, but we also strive to help develop relevant content, to increase women’s ICT skills and confidence, and to extend their participation as producers of content and ICT technicians.
To achieve these goals, WLP’s ICT Capacity Program includes eLearning courses in multiple languages; the establishment of six IT Centers; the ongoing ICT capacity building of the partnership’s grassroots organizations; and the development of an ICT training handbook for activists in the Global South. In order to improve and expand our programs that strengthen partners' IT capacity, we are conducting a technology needs-assessment for each of our national partners.
Resources on ICT Empowerment
- Technology Facts & Figures
- Profiles of Information and Communication Technology experts
- Multimedia: Cultural Boundaries and Cyber Spaces - Women's Voices on Empowerment, Leadership and Technology; and Women e-Merging - Stories of Women Using Communication Technologies in Africa and the Middle East
- Technology Organization Directory
More Stories and Reports
WLP & CRTD-A Train Women to Use ICTs for Advocacy in Lebanon
Eighteen women's rights activists created blogs, online petitions, and Facebook groups to promote their advocacy efforts on behalf of women's rights in Beirut, Lebanon. They learned these new technology skills at the National Institute for Training of Women Trainers in Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) for Social Change. The Institute was convened by WLP, in cooperation with WLP Lebanon/Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A) in Beirut from December 9-12.
The new technology tools were extremely popular because they offer small, resource-strapped organizations the means to advocate for women's rights. One participant is now using her new skills to promote her women's cooperative products online. CRTD-A Information Technology (IT) co-coordinator, Lina Aboulhassan, has already started a blog to raise awareness of CRTD-A's latest activities at www.new-crtda.blogspot.com.
Participants, each of whom facilitated a session of the manual, learned how to use participatory training techniques to train others in ICT skills. CRTD-A Gender Program Coordinator, Roula Masri, facilitated a training session on social networking.
Photo Blog of National ICT Training of Trainers Institute in Lebanon
Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) and Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action convened a National Institute for Training of Women Trainers in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Social Change in Amman, Jordan from Dec 9-12, 2007. The Institute was facilitated by WLP colleague Usha Venkatachallam of Appropriate IT. Learn more about the Institute through Usha's photo blog below.
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Photo Blog of National ICT Training of Trainers Institute in Jordan
Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) and Sisterhood Is Global Institute-Jordan (SIGI-J) convened a National Institute for Training of Women Trainers in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Social Change in Amman, Jordan from Dec 3-6, 2007. The Institute was facilitated by WLP colleague Usha Venkatachallam of Appropriate IT. Learn more about the Institute through Usha's photo blog below.
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WLP & SIGI/J Conduct National Institute for Training of Women Trainers in ICTs for Social Change in Jordan
From December 3-6, 2007 in Amman, Jordan, WLP in cooperation with WLP Jordan/Sisterhood Is Global Institute-Jordan (SIGI/J) conducted the first of two National Institutes for Training of Women Trainers in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Social Change. The second will take place in Beirut, Lebanon on December 9-12. Nineteen women from across Jordan participated in the Institute. WLP’s new ICT manual, Making IT Our Own: Information & Communication Technology Training of Trainers Manual was used.
View a Photo Slideshow from the Institute.
( categories:
Jordan | ICT Capacity Building | Issue 18 (Winter 2007) | Institutes and Training of Trainers )
Arabic eCourse: Prototype with Participants from Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Palestine
From September 5 to October 21, 2005, a group of 14 experienced leadership trainers from Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Palestine participated in a five-week prototype Arabic eCourse to test and adapt the Arabic curriculum in preparation for a full eCourse in 2006.
WLP trained partners from Morocco and Lebanon to act as facilitators for the upcoming course, focusing on use of the course technology and the interactive, problem-solving methodology that guides the course.
Prototype Persian Course with Participants from Iran and Afghanistan
From January-March 2004, four leading Afghan and Iranian participants worked together over a ten-week period to develop, test and adapt the curriculum for the Persian eCourse.
Two Iranian women with strong backgrounds in women's rights education and advocacy were trained as facilitators for the future eCourse in Iran.
Women in Iran Develop Participatory Leadership Skills in eLearning Course
WLP implemented an eight-week Persian online distance learning course on developing participatory leadership skills for women’s rights activists in Iran from January 3 - March 7, 2005. This was WLP’s first full-length online course conducted in Persian. WLP has previously conducted courses in English and is now testing a prototype Arabic course.
Eight women based in Iran participated, including heads of women’s organizations, educators, and experienced trainers. They participated despite a climate of government crackdown and imprisonment of internet activists and bloggers.
IT Training for Women's Empowerment and Capacity-Building in Afghanistan
The sound of clicking keyboards filled the room as more than 20 women and men worked intently in a tiny packed computer lab in Kabul. The class was part of an eight-day Information Technology Training Institute entitled "Information Technology Training for Women's Empowerment and Capacity-Building," organized and implemented by the Women's Learning Partnership (WLP), in cooperation with the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), May 18-25, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
