Table of Contents
Features
Promote gender equality and empower women
Gender Caucus in WSIS
Challenges for gender equality
Heike Jensen

Empowering Women
Promoting skill transfer through ICTs
Anita Gurumurthy

Gracenet: The New Girls’ Network
Net to networking: Empowering women
Anuradha Dhar

eHomemakers Network
Teleworking moms unite!
Usha Krishnan, S Puvaneswary

Use and Abuse of Technology
Fighting female foeticide through ICT
Divya Jain

Overview
Gender budgeting
Jayalakshmi Chittoor

News
Columns
Mainstreaming women
A learning tool for empowerment
Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM)
Glossary
Gender related terms
Books received
Bytes for All
Disaster Feature
Developments post tsunami
What’s on
Fact Sheet
The tilted balance
ICTD project newsletter
Rendezvous
Baramati Conference
Interview
Dr. Maxine Olson
UNDP India
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What’s on

Belgium
18-20 April, 2005
ISCRAM 2005: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Brussels
http://www.iscram.org/index.php?option= content&task=view&id=684&Itemid=2

Bulgaria
22-23 April, 2005
WebTech 2005, Sofia
http://webtech2005.info/index.php?/archives/22-About.html


Canada
27 June-02 July, 2005
ED-MEDIA 2005
Montreal
http://www.aace.org

24-28 October, 2005
E-Learn 2005: World Conference on
e-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education
Vancouver

British Columbia
http://www.aace.org/conf/eLearn/call.htm

China
06 July, 2005
IEEE 3rd International Workshop on
Technology for Education in Developing Countries
Taiwan
http://ifets.massey.ac.nz/tedc2005/

France
11-13 May, 2005
ICT for Capacity-Building: Critical
Success Factors
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID= 17638&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Italy
13-16 June, 2005
2nd International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Milan
http://www.cct2005.disco.unimib.it/

11-15 July, 2005
OSS2005: International Conference
on Open Source Systems, Genova
http://oss2005.case.unibz.it/

Mozambique
10-11 May, 2005
3rd International Open Access
Conference, Maputo
http://www.wideopenaccess.net/

Nigeria
25-28 May, 2005
Enhancing Human Resource Development through ICT, Abuja
http://is.lse.ac.uk/ifipwg94/pdfs/2005firstcall.pdf

South Africa
24-26 August, 2005
CIRN2005: The 2nd Annual Conference of the Community Informatics Research Network, Cape Town
http://www.cirn2005.org/

Spain
06-08 July, 2005
7th ISKO-Spain Conference
Barcelona
http://www.bd.ub.es/isko2005/

Tunisia
16-18 November, 2005
WSIS: World Summit on the
Information Society
Phase 2, Tunis
http://www.itu.int/wsis/
The United Arab Emirates
05-06 April, 2005
Middle-East E-learning
Technology, Dubai
http://www.dubaimelt.com/

The United Kingdom
04-06 April, 2005
LILAC 2005: Librarians’ Information
Literacy Annual Conference
London
http://lttg.lse.ac.uk/LILAC/default.asp


22-24 June, 2005
First International Conference on
e-Social Science
Manchester
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference_05.htm

10-12 July, 2005
Euro Conference on Mobile Government
Sussex University
Brighton
http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/europeanmg.htm


14-16 July, 2005
6th International Women into Computing Conference
Greenwich
http://www.wic.org.uk/conference/

United States
02-05 April, 2005
e-Learning 2005
Dallas, Texas
http://www.144.162.197.250eLearning 2005glance.htm

16 April, 2005
Grassroots Use of Technology
Boston
http://organizenow.net/conference05.html

12-14 June, 2005
The International Symposium on Women and Information and Communication Technology
Baltimore
http://www.wtci.org/CWIT/CWITsite.htm