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Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa
Information is universally acknowledged to be a lynchpin of sustainable and equitable development. In Africa, however, access to information is limited, and especially so for rural women. The new information and communication technologies (ICTs), centred mostly on the Internet, provide potential to redress this imbalance. Edited by Eva M. Rathgeber and Edith Ofwona Adera. The entire text is online.
http://www.idrc.ca/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=6&Product_ID=471&CATID=15
Flamme
Flamme is a network of African sisters online committed to strengthening the capacity of women through the use of ICTs to lobby, advocate and participate in the Beijing +5 process regionally and globally.
http://flamme.org/
African Women's Media Center
The AWMC provides African women journalists the training, resources and tools they need to compete equally with their male colleagues. The AWMC site provides training, opportunities for networking and education, and resources by and about African women journalists.
http://www.awmc.com/
Africa News Online - Women and Gender Issues
Links to current news from around the continent.
http://allafrica.com/women/
Abantu For Development
A non-governmental organisation founded in 1991 by women, for the purpose of harnessing resources to the benefit of African people. Abantu means "people" in many languages, and symbolizes our people-centred philosophy. The main focus of our work is on training, providing information and advice on mobilising resources towards sustainable development in Africa.
http://www.abantu.org/
African Gender Institute
Building intellectual capacity and establishing an African resource dedicated to strengthening and advancing the work of intellectuals, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners committed to the attainment of gender equity.
http://www.uct.ac.za/org/agi/
Strategic Action Issue Area: African Women's Rights
Links to online documents.
http://www.africapolicy.org/action/women.htm
FAWE - Forum for African Women Educationalists
A membership organization that brings together African women ministers in charge of national education systems, women vice chancellors of universities and other senior women policy makers in education in Africa.
http://home.africaonline.co.ke/fawe/
GAIN: Gender in Africa Information Network
The network encourages participation of documentalists, activists, researchers and journalists who have an interest and commitment to gender related issues in Africa and the dissemination of information.
http://womensnet.org.za/links/gainbroch.htm
APC-Africa-Women
APC-Africa-Women gathers and works together with women and women's organizations in Africa and all over the world, focusing on African women's empowerment through Information Facilitation, Regional Support, Policy and Advocacy, Training and Research in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
http://www.enda.sn/synfev/apcfemafr/indexapc.html
Jenda: Journal of Culture and African Women Studies
EJournal devoted to the promotion of the research and scholarship of African women to the global African community and friends of Africa.
http://www.jendajournal.com/jenda/
West Africa Review: Special Issue on Gender
Peer-reviewed papers and reviews on women and gender in Africa. (August 2000)
http://www.westafricareview.com/war/vol2.1/index2.1.htm
Women in Africa's Development
Africa Recovery/UN/Briefing Paper #11 on Women.
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/bpaper/maineng.htm
The African Centre for Women
NGO promoting the use of Information & Communications Technology by women in Africa
http://www.acwict.or.ke/
African Women's Bibliographic Database
An English language database containing over 19,000 citations from 1986 to current.
http://www.africabib.org/women.html
Femnet
The African Women's Development and Communication Network.
http://www.femnet.or.ke/
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