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Web Training
Workshop by Radio Feminista August 20-21, 2004
Radio Internacional Feminista (FIRE) conducted a training workshop on designing webpages with two Costa Rican women's organizations, including the Women's Health Association (AMES--Asociación de Mujeres en Salud) and the alternative women's newspaper, Pregonera.
The webpages that they designed during the workshop were uploaded at the Cibersives website: www.cibersivas.net, until the organizations post them in their own server domains. Cibersivas or cyber-subversives--was the name suggested to FIRE in a workshop they conducted last year with 35 Latin American and Caribbean women's activists in November, 2003, in San Jose, Costa Rica. The earlier workshop was designed to combine development of technological know-how with an analysis of the political and economic implications of ICTs (information & communication technologies) in order to design strategies for the women's movement to use them for political activism The latest workshop took place on August 20 and 21, 2004, at the new FIRE office in Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica, and included four women from AMES, and one from Pregunera, as well as two new young FIRE staff women. The participants learned to design webpages and also shared their objectives for going into cyberspace. Among several, one for AMES was that this women's health organization receives a lot of international requests for medical advice and information via e-mail, and they want to post a lot of this information on a webpage, and use correspondence for networking and also broaden their international links for information and services. For the new young FIRE staff, the workshop gave them knowledge and skills about how FIRE serves as an international radio station. For example, Andrea Alvarado explained that although she has been doing community radio for many years, she had never thought the internet could become an international radio station, which is why she is so interested in working at FIRE.
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