Mexico City, Mexico

Hosted by Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género (PUEG) in cooperation with the Know How Secretariat, this conference is an initiative of the Know How Community, held once every four years. The theme for the 2006 conference is "Weaving the information society: a gender and multicultural
perspective"

The conference goal is to increase the availability, accessibility and visibility of information relevant to advancing the position of women and girls throughout the world, and to share documentary efforts, strategies and tactics. Four main objectives have been identified: to establish strategies for the development of the work of gender/ women's libraries, centers and networks; to generate specific policies to attend to the information needs of indigenous and rural women; to narrow the digital gap for women and information; and to construct the Latin American Network of Information Centers and Libraries on Women's and Gender Studies.

The Know How Conference 2006 will consist of a two-day pre-conference training academy, a three-day conference which will include a book fair and a feminist film festival. The themes for the conference are:

• Globalisation, culture, information and gender
• Media, gender and communication
• The digital gap, gender and development
• Indigenous and rural women, ICTs and the information society
• Development of policies for libraries and library professionals
• Strategies and alternatives for financing gender and women's information initiatives
• Policies for the development of the structure and legal status of the Know How Community

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300 word abstracts for unpublished, original papers and presentations may be submitted in Spanish, English or French. Proposals for films may be submitted in either VHS, Betamax, DVD formats along with a 300 word description of the film. For addional guidelines for submission, please contact felmar@servidor.unam.mx


Deadline for submissions: March 1 2006