The 18 months long global digital literacy campaign launched by ITU and the Philippine-based NGO telecentre.org Foundation the 7 April 2011 has come halfway.

The Australian Government has announced that Australia is was creating a Global Ambassador for Women and Girls and Penny Williams has been appointed as the first Global Ambassador.

Cheryl D.Miller, Founder of Zen Digital and European Director of greenlight for girls takes over as responsible for the Belgian National Point of Contact of the ECWT

This is a 1st Call for Papers for a conference on the contemporary and historical role played by women in the film, television and video industries in Africa. From the Arab North Africa, West Africa, Central and East Africa, through to Southern Africa, women have emerged from the double oppression of patriarchy and colonialism to become the unsung heroines of the moving image as producers, directors, actresses, script writers, financiers, promoters, marketers and distributors of film, television and video in postcolonial Africa. Sadly, such immense contributions by women are underrepresented, both in industry debates and in academic research.

Institute for Gender Studies of Siaulai University of Technology in Kaunas, cooordinator of the FP 7 project HELENA - "Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers - GIEE 2011"  is organizing its next conference in Paris at the Les Cordeliers, Conference Centre of the Paris University on 23-24 June, 2011.Project objectives are:Project objectives are: 1.

 The Know How Conference is hosted by Programa Universitario de Estudios de Genero (PUEG) and UNAM, in cooperation with the Know How Secretariat, and it is an initiative of the Know How Community, held once every four years.The Know How Community includes librarians, journalists, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) experts, researchers, indigenous and rura women's information workers, publishers, information activists representing excluded communities of women, from all parts of the world.