International Taskforce on Women and ICT's

The Re-Engineering Development: Engendering ICTs meeting launched a consortium of global leaders and practitioners to create synergy in efforts to increase women's full participation and leadership in ICTs: from engineering innovation and software development, to basic access and use, to literacy and leadership. The network will, based on its Guiding Principles promote communication and information exchange; increase sharing of research, knowledge, and resources; develop a series of collaborative activities; and promote recommendations for policy and programming. The goal is to ensure that the participation of women in engineering, education, and employment in ICT globally is measurably and significantly increased within five years.

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Secretariat
Claudia Morrell, Executive Director, Maryland Women and Technology, (MDWIT)*, USA
Tonia Blackwood, CEO, BR MarketLaunch, USA
* Secretariat Chair

Steering Committee

Behjat Al Yousuf, Associate Director, Dubai Women’s College – Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), United Arab Emirates
Rim Belhaj, Executive Board, National Union of Tunisian Women, Tunisia
Sonja Bernhardt, Founder, Australian Women in IT and Science Entity (AWISE)

Gloria Bonder, Chair, UNESCO Women, Science and Technology in Latin America, Argentina

Patrice Braun, Deputy Director, Centre for Regional Innovation and Competitiveness, University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Eva Fabry, Papirbredden Innovasjon, Member of the STC of WINNET Europe, Norway
Dorothy Gordon, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT, Ghana

Nancy Hafkin, Director, Knowledge Working, USA
Ann Holmes, Principal Consultant, Ann Holmes & Associates, and Board Member, WIGSAT - Women, knowledge, technology, Canada
Sophia Huyer, Executive Director, WIGSAT - Women, knowledge, technology, Canada
Kio Chung Kim, Executive Director, APEC Women’s e-Biz Center, Asian Pacific Women's Information Network Center (APWINC), Korea
Marina Larios, President, European Association for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WiTEC), UK
Dorothy Okello, Executive Director, Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET), Uganda
Tegwin Pulley, Vice President, Texas Instruments, USA
Chat Garcia Ramilo, Coordinator, Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP), Philippines
Barbara Waugh, Director of University Relations, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA

Advisory Committee
Marilyn Carr, International Women’s Tribune Centre and WIGSAT - Women, knowledge, technology, UK
Michela Cipeletti, Cisco Systems, Italy
Renee Clair, Gender and Science Focal Point, UNESCO, France
M. Bernardine Dias, Research Faculty, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Anita Gurumurthy, Executive Director, IT for Change, Bangalore, India
Tina James, icteum consulting, Lynnwood Ridge, South Africa
Wayne Johnson, Vice President of World Wide University Relations, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA
Russel Jones, President of Standing Committee on Capacity Building, World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), USA
Abdul Waheed Khan, Assistant Director General for Communication and Information, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinator, GAID Secretariat, United Nations, USA
Irina Khomeriki, Head of Georgian Branch Office, International Science and Technology Center (ISTC), Tbilisi, Georgia
Paula Koda, Director of Sales, AT&T, China
Anita Komlodi, Professor, Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Zaki Koury, Lead, Microsoft Corporate Citizenship and Strategic Engagement, UAE

Alethea Lodge-Clarke, Program Manager, Public Private Partnerships, Microsoft, USA
Mmabatho Matiwane, Director of Gender and Women’s Empowerment Unit, South Africa
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Professor, Institute of Computing, UNICAMP, Brazil
Kayoko Shibata Medlin, Gender Knowledge Management Analyst, Gender and Development Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank, USA
Samia Melhem, Senior Operations Officer, Global Information and Communication Technology, World Bank, USA
Lueny Morell, Director of University Relations for Latin America, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA
Monique Morrow, Distinguished Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems, Switzerland
Natasha Primo, Executive Director, WomensNet, South Africa
Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Executive Director, Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)’s Secretariat, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Raj Rengalakshmi, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India
Heidi Schelhowe, Professor, Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany
Marianne Schwarz da Silva, Project Manager Networking, European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS), Belgium
Chetan Sharma, Founder and President, Datamation Foundation, India
Revi Sterling, Graduate Student, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Ramata Thioune, Program Officer, Women’s Rights and Citizenship, Acacia (Communities and the Information Society in Africa), Senegal
Desiree van Welsum, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France
Gisele Yitamben, Executive Director, ASAFE Knowledge Academy for Development, Cameroon

Observer Organizations
Sandra Charles, Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada
Nancy Pascall, Gender Policy Coordinator, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission, Belgium
Rosalie Zobel, Director, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission, Belgium
Sanye Gulser Corat, Head of Women and Gender Equality, Bureau of Strategic Planning, UNESCO, France

Member Organizations
American Association of University Women http://www.aauw.org/index.cfm
AAUW Educational Foundation http://www.aauw.org/ef/index.cfm
APC WNSP http://www.apcwomen.org/eng_index.html
ASAFE, Africa, www.asafe.org
Association of Professional Women Engineers in Nigeria www.apwen.org
ATEF, Italy, http://www.atef.org/
Bellanet International Secretariat www.bellanet.org
Business and Professional Women German e.V. www.bpw-germany.de
Center for Ecological, Economic, and Ethical Education, USA
Center of Excellence Women and Science (CEWS), Germany http://www.cews.org
Center for Gender Equity, Camano Island, Washington, U.S.A www.josanders.com
Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, U.S.A. http://www.umbc.edu/cwit
Copen Family Funds, a private foundation
Computer Science Teachers Association, U.S.A. csta.acm.org
Datamation Foundation
DeVry University Business Women in Information, Science, and Engineering program (BWISE) http://facweb.phi.devry.edu/clubs/wise/devry_wise_programs.htm
e-Business Center Peking University, People's Republic of China www.ebc.pku.edu.cn
Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), USA www.edc.org
E-knowledge for Women in Southern Africa EKOWISA, Zimbabwe, Africa www.ekowisa.org.zw
Femtec, Germany http://www.femtec.org/content/0/2070/1085/
Foundation of Women Entrepreneurs FEW Malta - http://www.women.org.mt/

Friends of the John William Education Center, Inc.  www.fjwec.org

Gender, Diversities & Technology Institute, U.S.A. www.edc.org/GDI
Gender Perspectives Opening Diversity for Information Society Technology (GIST), Germany http://www.e-gist.net

Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia - http://www.gtu.ge/

Global Alliance for Diversifying the Workforce in Science and Engineering www.globalalliancesmet.org
Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network (GWIIN) www.gwiin.org
GONE RURAL, Malkerns, Swaziland, Africa www.goneruralswazi.com
Hansen Partnership, Inc. www.HansenPartnership.com

Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated, Staten Island, New York  www.helpinghandsinitiative.org

Hewlett-Packard Bulgaria - http://welcome.hp.com/country/bg/bg/welcome.html

ICT & Education, Zutphen, Netherlands www.ict-edu.nl
iEARN Egypt http://www.iearnegypt.org
iEARN Lebanon http://www.iea.org.lb, http://www.iearnlb.org
iEARN-Pangea, Barcelona, Spain
iEARN Slovenia http://www.ljudmila.org/iearn/index_h0.htm
iEARN Tunisia
iEARN UK, www.iearnuk.org
iEARN-USA, http://us.iearn.org/
Immaculata University of Immaculata, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. http://www.immaculata.edu/
Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science, U.S.A www.iwitts.com
Institute of Social and Gender Policy, Russia www.genderpolicy.ru
Interactive Education and Resource Network (iEARN), Macedonia www.imor.org.mk

International Commission on Workforce Development  http://www.icwfd.org/
International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists www.inwes.org
The International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) www.irex.org
Irene Namatovu, MTN Uganda
IRMA-India http://www.irma-india.org

John William Montessori School, Kumasi, Ghana  www.jwms.org
Life Sciences Computing, USA http://www.lifesciencescomputing.com/
Matilda Amissah, Matamiss Enterprise, Ghana, West Africa

MDD Consultancy – Information Society Services,The Netherlands - http://www.mdd-consultancy.com/

Peggy Meszaros, Ph.D.; CFCS, William E. Lavery Professor of Human Development Director, Center for Information Technology Impacts on Children, Youth, and Families College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech, U.S.A. http://www.humandevelopment.vt.edu/appliedmastersmain.htm
MentorNet www.MentorNet.net
MINÖK, Hungarian Network of Women, Hungary

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece - http://uoa.gr/
National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity, USA www.napequity.org
National Center for Women and Information Technology, U.S.A. www.ncwit.org
Nigerian Soceity of Engineers http://www.nse.org.ng

Nokia Corporation, Finland- http://www.nokia.com/

NRC - The Swedish National Federation of Resource Centers for Women http://www.nrckvinnor.org

NSERC/HP Canada - Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Ontario http://www.soe.uoguelph.ca/webfiles/cwse/NUTEK – The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, Sweden – http://www.nutek.se
Orillas-iEARN Center

Papirbredden Innovasjon, Norway - http://www.pi-as.no
PTC, the Product Development Company, http://www.ptc.com/
QUIN-Estonia www.quinest.ee
Research Group Digital Media in Education of the University of Bremen, Germany http://www.dimeb.de
Roumania Chamber of Deputies, Committee for Equal Opportunities for Women, Roumania.
SM Consulting, U.S.A. www.smcteam.com

Steinbeis – Europa - Zentrum, Stuttgart, Germany - http://www.steinbeis-europa.de/
The Thornburg Center for Professional Development. TCPD.org
Uganda Investment Authority Women Entrepreneurs Network, Uganda, Africa www.ugandainvest.com
UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology, U.K. www.setwomenresource.org.uk
UNESCO Regional Chair Women, Science and Technology in Latin America www.catunescomujer.org
The University of Alabama at Birmingham ADVANCE Program and the Office for the Advancement of Women in Science and Engineering
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Maryland, U.S.A. www.umbc.edu
VHTO, The Netherlands - http://www.vhto.nl/

Voices of African Mothers, Africa  http://www.vamothers.org

WINNET - European Network of Women Resource Centres
Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network (WEPAN) http://www.wepan.org/
Women's Political Resource Centre, Georgia
WiTEC Hungary (European Association for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology)
WiTEC U.K. http://www.witec-eu.net www.inovaconsult.com
Women@SCS, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. http://women.cs.cmu.edu
Women, Media and Change(WOMEC), Pan Africa www.womec.org
Women in IT of Fiji, www.clariti.com.fj
Women's Information Center, Georgia www.ginsc.net
Women in Global Science and Technology, Toronto, Canada www.wigsat.org
Women Without Borders www.women-without-borders.org
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, http://www.wagggsworld.org/en/home
World Federation of Engineering Organizations, http://www.unesco.org/wfeo/

YTKO, U.K., France Greece -  http://www.ytko.co.uk/

Past Events 
Women and ICT: Creating Global Transformation an International Symposium
June 12 – 14, 2005
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Inaugural Meeting of UN Global Alliance for ICT Policy and Development (GAID)
June 19 – 20, 2006
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Inaugural Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
October 30 – November 2, 2006
Athens, Greece

Inaugural Meeting of International Taskforce on Women and ICTs
Re-Engineering Development: Engendering ICTs
November 12 – 14, 2006
Paris, France

UN GAID Strategy Council Meeting
February 27 – 28, 2007
Santa Clara, California, USA

World Federation of Engineering Organizations, International Colloquium
Empowering Women in Engineering and Technology
June 6 – 8, 2007
Tunis, Tunisia

IGF 2007
November 12 – 15, 2007
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Recent and Future Meetings/Events

Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3)
December 11 – 13, 2007
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Launch of the Global Women and Technology Framework

ITF - UNGAID meeting

December 10 - 12, 2008

United Nations, New York, USA