THE APC WNSP AND GKP GENDER AND ICT AWARDS
Recognizing Innovative and Effective Efforts
The Gender and ICT Awards aim to honor and bring international recognition to
the innovative and effective projects by women to use ICTs for the promotion of
gender equality and/or women's empowerment.
Specifically, the Awards objectives are to:
� Recognise gender and ICT initiatives globally and provide further
impetus for others to mainstream gender in the field of ICTs for women's
empowerment, and therefore support our advocacy work;
� Provide a much-needed venue to recognise community-based or small-scale
initiatives designed and implemented by women and women's
organisations/networks; while providing recognition too to larger scale but
cost-effective multi-stakeholder initiatives;
� Provide much needed opportunities to develop new
collaborations/partnerships and opportunities for upscaling small-scale and
community-based initiatives.
The awards are open to projects from all around the world.
The Gender and ICT Awards will be launched, and winners will be showcased and
celebrated, at a special event and venue parallel to the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, Switzerland, from December 10-12, 2003.
A prize of US$8,000 will be awarded to one winner in each of the following four
categories:
� Outstanding Multi-stakeholder Initiative
o Global/regional
o National/local
� Outstanding Individual or Community-Based Initiative
o Advocacy/Networking
o Capacity building
One representative from each of the 4 winning initiatives will be flown to
Geneva for the awards celebrations in December.
Applications will be accepted from July 15 to September 10, 2003. (Applications
sent by postal mail must be postmarked by August 25, 2003). Winners will be
selected and announced by November 1, 2003.
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