[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: Promotting our Mailing list and web site

[djilali benamrane]

Karen
Once more congratulation for the recognition you enjoy
regarding your involvement in WSIS initiatives and APC
Women networking.
Of course we can wait til you will back to London to
add our List to the others.
Many thanks and wishes
Djilali 
--- karen banks <karenb at gn.apc.org> wrote:

> hi djilali
> 
> i'll certainly add the info about the finance list
> to the wsis-cs.org 
> caucuses website.. but it might have to wait til i'm
> back in london next 
> week - hope that's ok..
> 
> to all who sent messages of congratulations for the
> Anita Borg Award - many 
> thanks - it's a wonderful accolade and recognition
> from peers of the work 
> of our network..
> 
> i was interested to see that some people didn't know
> anything about the 
> work of the APC Womens networking support programme
> (www.apcwomen.org).
> 
> APCWNSP was very active in WSIS I (and continues to
> be so) through the NGO 
> gender strategies working group (NGO GSWG
> www.genderit.org) and the WSIS 
> Gender caucus (www.genderwsis.org).
> 
> The work of the NGO GSWG was probably best known for
> the t-shirt campaign 
> during WSIS I..
> 
> T-shirt campaign grabs attention of governments
> where documents have failed
> 
> MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 09/18/2003 -- The NGO Gender
> Strategies Working Group 
> launched a WSIS t-shirt campaign yesterday which had
> government delegates 
> craning their necks to read a message that until now
> had fallen upon deaf 
> ears. The t-shirts, which contained the message
> "WSIS has a missing 
> paragraph" (on the front) and the text of paragraph
> 11A (on the back) were 
> worn by a number of non governmental delegates.
> Later in the day, some 
> government representatives approached the delegates
> to buy their own 
> t-shirts to wear during the PrepCom.
> 
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=14125
> 
> karen
> 
> 
> 


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