Monday, May 19, 2008

May 19 to 23: Women Empowerment in the Age of ICT

I just partnered with the University Center for Women's Studies of UP (UCWS-UP) for the conduct of their training workshop on "Women Empowerment in the Age of ICT".

This is part of the UCWS-UP ICT project called "Women and Gender Advocacy, Training, Education, and research in the Age of ICT (WgATER-ICT). This is an action plan output of a trainer's training on ICT in 207 with APEC Digital Opportunity Center as lead sponsor.

As the coordination for the said training was quite tight, I've decided to tap into the existing women members in the DigitalFilipino.com Club to contribute their time and effort for this training. The program outline where the club members participated are as follows:

May 19 Monday

ICT for Business
Resource person, Gwen Nava
  • Introduction to E-Commerce
  • Internet Safety
  • Introduction to E-Shopping and E-Transactions
  • Hands-on
    • Trial of e-commerce / e-government websites
    • Comparison of e-commerce sites
    • Case study: AbsoluteTraders.com
May 21

ICT for Data Management, Research, and Communication
Resource person: Aileen Apolo
  • Introduction to search engines
  • Introduction to keywords
  • Tips on finding information you need onlnie
  • How to promote your business through the Internet (e-mail and blog marketing)
  • Search engine marketing
  • Introduction to information research tracking (RSS and alerts)
May 22

ICT for Data Management, Research, and Communication
Resource person: Joan Pinon
  • Information research result communication (online collaboration tools, wiki, blogs, podcast, vlogs)
  • Using online collaboration tools and blogs (setting up and posting content)
  • Hands-on workshop:
    • Creating your own blog
  • Using blogs for advocacy
May 23

ICT for Data Management, Research and E-Commerce
Resource persons:
Internet Payment
  • Accepting online payment
  • Case study: Kaban
E-Commerce for Women Entrepreneurs
  • E-Commerce project planning
  • Case Study: RegaloService
  • Lessons learned
  • Project Planning Workshop
Many thanks for this opportunity and we hope that more women will be empowered through ICT and e-commerce!

2 comments:

Ria Jose said...

A very interesting event! Wish I could have been a part of it.

Good luck!

Bring this to Davao please.

Rizza Po said...

Great stuff. Wish I was there.

We need more women in ICT. Keep it up!