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WEBSITES

The website of the AFRICAN CENTRE FOR WOMEN, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ACWICT) at http://www.acwict.or.ke opens with a striking photo of a woman in colorful traditional clothing, holding a state-of-the-art notebook computer. The mission of this Kenya-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) is "to promote access to and effective use of [information and communications technologies] among women in the African region as well as explore opportunities for harnessing the technology to work as a tool for their social, economic, political advancement." One of the organization's projects is a mentoring program that aims to encourage girls to pursue careers in information technology.

Many women were among the firefighters and emergency medical technicians on the scene of the disaster at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Two websites specifically dedicated to those women's experiences are ANOTHER VIEW OF 9/11: WOMEN TELL THEIR STORIES (http://www.wfsi.org/AnotherView.html) and WOMEN AT GROUND ZERO (http://www.womenatgroundzero.com), the latter being a companion site to a book with the same title by Susan Hagen and Mary Carouba.

ASMITA WOMEN'S PUBLISHING HOUSE, MEDIA AND RESOURCE ORGANISATION in Nepal is "the one and only feminist alternative media organization in the country." The organization, whose name means "identity," was started by a group of young women journalists in the late 1980s. Asmita's activities have included publishing a magazine, documenting the Nepali women's movement, and researching efforts to stop trafficking of women and girls in Nepal. A website is maintained at http://www.asmita.org.np/

The ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS (AWC) started in 1909 as a women's journalism society at the University of Washington. Today, membership in AWC is open to both women and men in communications careers (e.g., magazine journalism, web design, book and CD-ROM publishing, advertising, and audiovisual production). The organizations website is at http://www.womcom.org/

CAREER COMMUNICATIONS GROUF INC. (CCG)

aims to "promote significant minority achievement in engineering, science and technology." CCG'S WOMEN OF COLOR: A MULTICULTURAL EVENT, presents awards in the areas of government and defense as well as health, science, and technology: http://www.womenofcolor.net/

The CENTRE FOR MENSTRUAL CYCLE AND OVULATION RESEARCH (CeMCOR) does not focus on infertility and disease, but rather on "women and the physiological, natural changes in their menstrual cycles." A "virtual center," CeMCOR was founded and is directed by Dr. Jerilynn C. Prior and has a scientific advisory council of researchers in gynecology, nutrition, …