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Information Sharing and Online Collaboration

Information Sharing and Online Collaboration A presentation by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women to the Inter-Agency and Expert Group Meeting on the Development of Gender Statistics, 12-14 December 2006, New York. WomenWatch.

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Information Sharing and Online Collaboration

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  1. Information Sharing and Online Collaboration A presentation by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women to the Inter-Agency and Expert Group Meeting on the Development of Gender Statistics, 12-14 December 2006, New York

  2. WomenWatch • The UN Internet Gateway on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women • An Initiative of the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE)

  3. Directory of Resources • 2000+ links to online gender resources in the UN System • 40 categories / subcategories • fully searchable • based on Content Management System

  4. Other Portal Services • Special features: Advocacy and in-depth coverage for special topics and events • Calendar of UN gender events • Groups: Online discussions and mailing lists • RSS: Automated sharing of new resources with our audience

  5. Gender Statistics@ WomenWatch • „Statistics and Indicators“ - main directory category withsubsets for: • The World’s Women • Progress of the World's Women • Education for All Global Monitoring Report • State of the World's Children • Human Development Report • State of World Population plus linkages to various Gender Statistics pages and online resources in the UN system and cross-linking in regional categories of the directory.

  6. Posting of Gender Statistics • Collection of new Gender Statistics resources through • Email announcements, Email-newsletters, mailing lists • Contact with Gender focal points and web managers • Internal RSS aggregator monitoring RSS feeds of UN entities

  7. Posting of Gender Statistics • Announcements channels of new Gender Statistics resources on WomenWatch: • Directory of Resources and / or Calendar of Events • Presentation on WomenWatch frontpage (new reports, upcoming events) • Dissemination through RSS feed and Email announcements

  8. Collaborative Tools@ WomenWatch • Online discussions and Mailing Lists for • preparation and follow up of conferences • gathering input for reports • virtual expert group meetings • internal online collaboration and knowledge sharing

  9. Information Sharing with RSS • Simple, powerful technology to share a website’s changes and new additions with its audience • RSS feed automatically published by the CMS whenever changes have been made • internal RSS aggregator as web manager notification system

  10. WomenWatch 2007 • Multilingual WomenWatch • Online Directory Submissions for IANWGE Members • RSS based calendar

  11. www.un.org/womenwatch

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