The transcript of the 'Dynamic Coalition on Gender' meeting at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Vilnius, Lithuania on September 17 2010.
The Dynamic Coalition on Gender Equality aims to ensure gender perspective is included in the key debates around internet governance issues, such as content regulation, privacy, access, freedom of expression among others. Among others, the coalition wants to promote women's visibility at the IGF and related fora; to conduct research and input on the main topics of IGF debates; to support capacity building of gender advocates and to promote more effective linkages between local, regional and global initiatives on gender and information society.
The initial coalition partners include individual representatives and affiliates representing the following organizations and institutions:
* Women's Networking Support Programme - Association for Progressive Communications (APC WNSP)
* EMERGE - Centro de Pesquisa e Produção em Comunicação e Emergência of Fluminense, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
* IT for Change, India
* Intellectual Property Justice (IP Justice)
* Division for Gender, Technology and Organisation - Luleå University of Technology (LTU)
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Note: The following is the output of the real-time captioning taken during Fifth Meeting of the IGF, in Vilnius. Although it is largely accurate, in some cases it may be incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. It is posted as an aid to understanding the proceedings at the session, but should not be treated as an authoritative record.
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The Dynamic Coalition on Gender Equality aims to ensure gender perspective is included in the key debates around internet governance issues, such as content regulation, privacy, access, freedom of expression among others. Among others, the coalition wants to promote women's visibility at the IGF and related fora; to conduct research and input on the main topics of IGF debates; to support capacity building of gender advocates and to promote more effective linkages between local, regional and global initiatives on gender and information society.
The initial coalition partners include individual representatives and affiliates representing the following organizations and institutions:
* Women's Networking Support Programme - Association for Progressive Communications (APC WNSP)
* EMERGE - Centro de Pesquisa e Produção em Comunicação e Emergência of Fluminense, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
* IT for Change, India
* Intellectual Property Justice (IP Justice)
* Division for Gender, Technology and Organisation - Luleå University of Technology (LTU)
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Note: The following is the output of the real-time captioning taken during Fifth Meeting of the IGF, in Vilnius. Although it is largely accurate, in some cases it may be incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. It is posted as an aid to understanding the proceedings at the session, but should not be treated as an authoritative record.
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