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Making IT Our Own: Information & Communication Technology Training of Trainers Manual
Making IT Our Own: Information & Communication Technology Training of Trainers Manual (2008)
English Edition 978-0-9770990-9-2 $69.95
Authors: Rakhee Goyal, Marion Marquardt, and Usha Venkatachallam
With a foreword by Mahnaz Afkhami
Tested and adapted in cooperation with Afghan Institute of Learning, Afghanistan; Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action, Lebanon; and Sisterhood Is Global Institute, Jordan.
Making IT Our Own is an innovative technology trainer’s manual developed by Women’s Learning Partnership for use in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) training workshops and training-of-trainers Institutes. The goal of the trainings is to provide technology skills for gender justice and human rights advocacy.
Making IT Our Own takes an assemble-your-own approach to ICT trainings by providing the necessary components—guidelines for participatory facilitation, step-by-step 'how tos' for each technology tool, learning resources on CD, and an assortment of pre-assembled agendas—so that trainers can customize and deliver effective technology trainings of their own suited to their communities. The manual uses scenarios to contextualize learning in everyday life and explore issues related to gender and technology.
Emphasizing lifelong learning and sharing of knowledge, Making IT Our Own guides trainers as they facilitate workshops based on peer-to-peer learning. The manual encourages facilitators and participants alike to think about innovative, cultural, and contextual uses of ICTs toward establishing women’s ownership of new technologies so that women can be both consumers of information and producers of knowledge.
Training sessions focus on gaining fluency in Web 2.0 applications such as social networks and blogs; office productivity software such as word processing and spreadsheets; internet tools such as RSS feeds and conference chat; and skills such as online privacy and security.
Making IT Our Own: Information & Communication Technology Training of Trainers Manual (2008)
English Edition 978-0-9770990-9-2 $69.95
Stories from the field
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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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.
