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Ma. Victoria Cabrera-Balleza
Manager, Media Information and Communications Services Programme
Isis International Manila
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Seven years after the issue of women and media was highlighted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995, which identified it as one of the critical areas of concern (along with poverty, education, health, violence against women, armed conflict, economic structures, power and decision-making, institutional mechanisms, women's human rights, environment, and the girl child), the media landscape has changed dramatically with the explosion in the information and communication technologies (ICT). Despite the fact that the impact of the development in ICTs is felt more in some countries than in others, it has already ushered in changes in the structure, ownership, control, and modes of distribution of media productions. However, as the cliché goes, the more things change, the more they remain the same-the coverage of women and women's perspectives in the media remain to be largely negative and stereotypical.

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Ma. Victoria Cabrera-Balleza
Manager, Media Information and Communications Services Programme
Isis International Manila
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This presentation is culled from a research project on the use of ICTs by women's organisations in Asia and the Pacific. Initiated by the Asian Women's Resource Exchange and coordinated by three organisations, namely Isis International-Manila, the Association for Progressive Communication-Women's Networking Support Programme, and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the research extended across seven countries in Asia-(India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mongolia, Nepal and the Philippines); eight countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia-Armenia, Azerbajan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan); and nine Pacific Island countries-Federated States of Micronesia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Fiji.

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KnowHow Conference 2002, 23-27 July 2002, Kampala, Uganda

Devaki Jain

ABSTRACT
In this presentation I suggest that while Networking has been a special feature of the feminist movement - and reflects in many ways the ideals of the feminist method - flexible, and non hierarchical arrangements to bring collective perspectives to issues, to give collective voice: networks and news letters , alliances and coalitions , have reached a stage , to use the corporate language, of flooding the market . The environment demands ideology, purpose, and a clearer use of the space that is available for the aims of networks.