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Maria Eugenia Chavez
Submitted by c5 on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 12:27.Actually, during training I’m sharing my knowledge about technology use because I have got into technology because of necessity in my work and because using technology in radio is a cheap and easy way of get out to media.
I’m convinced that the use of new technologies at present is a fundamental
element on women empowerment. for me, being a trainer on technologies is a possibility to share knowledge and experience to improve living standards and political participation of women.
First, for me, being a feminist-technologist-trainer have to be with my
positions of women use those tools humanity have created to have a better life.
In other words, women have the right to approach the tools, “Fierro” material or “hard” as we might call those media that bring us closer to the Internet: PC’s, laptops, cell phones, etc.. because technology has been part of the civilization of human beings since immemorial time and women are half of those humans.
New technologies are now an essential part of the educational processes and must include women in those processes. So, as trainer I encourage women to use technologies as they are a part of our reality.
I can not avoid the inclusion of the cultural contexts of women’s access to ICT.
Also the inclusion of our humanity: feelings and knowledge in the use of modern technologies.
In addition, I think that during the training it is necessary to incorporate an analysis of:
1) The role of ourselves in a symbolic building of our being within the www.
2) The power we generate or we recreated when we access to new technologies.
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls
Submitted by c5 on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 11:58.I have a broadcasting background (radio and TV) and in 2001 and 2002 after establishing femLINKPACIFIC, I developed a series of training programmes using TV and radio to assist the members of the National Council of Women understand the opportunities to use radio and television to tell their stories / as an advocacy and communication platform, rather then simply relying on press releases.
Since femLINKPACIFIC was established we have combined media technology training, especially using radio, as part of our community radio activities especially for our young women producers/broadcasters;
The development of our community media/advocacy process in rural communities is also a participatory training methodology I have developed to assist women develop their “radio content” and then to also be involved in the production of their community radio programmes
It is participatory and it is not a top down approach, in fact I believe that it is about facilitation rather than “training” as the process must empower women and young women, rather than disempower the women and young women who we work with because quite often it is the actual technology which can become a barrier;
When it comes to the politics of technology as women with our diversities it is also ensuring that we have a “level playing field” and overcome the patriarchy of decision making so we collectively must be able to understand and address the issues of accessibility (eg for women with disabilities) and appropriateness (in rural communities) and find ways to bridge that gap even when we develop common advocacy strategies; it is therefore ensuring that we holistically address the information-communication divide within women’s communities eg between urban and semi-urban women; urban and rural women; women of the global south and north; I also see the politics of technology therefore as an inter-generational issue within the movement and so, our training practices must empower older and young women – what I try to do is empower the older women with the knowledge about the technology and give them the chance to have “hands on experience” and then equipping young women with the tools and skills to use the technology so that together both groups can work together.
I see myself as a woman who has the opportunity to empower other women with the skills and knowledge I have had the privilege and opportunity to learn myself…so that we can all move forward together.
AWID 2008 Opening-Monica Aleman-Spanish
Submitted by MARIA EUGENIA C... on Sun, 11/16/2008 - 13:38.9:57 minutes (9.12 MB)
Monica Aleman is a young femnist from Nicaragua who shared with us her experiences in the feminists movement in her country.
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