The following is a summary of the keynote speech by Professor Saskia Sassen at the Tokyo Forum on October 16, 2001
Table 4: Technology and Women-Oriented Email Listserves (Electronic Forums)(similar lists for various other subjects exist but are not included in this table)
| Name |
Funciton |
| AFRO-TECHIES |
Discussion group for technically inclined women of African descent seeking to expand the experience and knowledge of black women in technology. |
| ASA-WOMEN-IT |
Discussion of issues and concerns relationg to women in Asia and the new global information and communication technology |
| A-WIA (American Womens's Internet Association) |
Organization and list for American women and their supporters "actively involved within the internet environment." |
| CONFERENCE-L |
List for discussion before and during the Women's Internet Conference (Oct. 18-21, 1997) |
| CYBORG-L |
Run by "Women on the Net," a UNESCO-SID project to provide a multicultural gender perspective on international communication systems. |
| FACES |
Cyber-Resource and International mailin list for women interested in the media and communication arts to share projects, exhibits, critical opinions, and text. |
| FEMINAMAIL |
Affiliated with women-oriented serach engine Femina; weekly update to Femina database |
| FEMINANET |
List to ask for help finding online sites for both personal, work-related, and academic interests |
| GK97-GENDER |
Connected to Global Knowledge 97 Conference; focuses on gender issues related to knowledge and information technologies. |
| GRANITE |
Platform for discussion to stimulate research from a feminist/women's perspective of gender and new information technologies |
| GRRLTALK |
discussion of GNU/Linux operating system, Open Source Software movement, Free Software Foundation, etc |
| ISOC-WOMEN-DISCUSS |
discussing access to the internet and information |
| KNOWHOWCONF |
to follow KnowHow Conference |
| MAC-WOMEN |
Macintosh help forum |
| MAIDEN-L |
for women new to the internet who need help |
NOWA.INTERNATIONAL |
for women who provide computer training to women, dealing with issues to gaining access to new technolohy, women-specific training, and a general networking medium |
| SPIDERWOMEN |
forum for women who manage and/or design website |
| UHURA |
collaborative research projcet online, for women researching some aspect of the net |
| VS-ONLINE-STRAT |
forum for issues related to women's organizations' utilizatin of electronic communication and publishing technologies |
| WEBWOMEN-CHAT |
non technical list for women on the web, "to keep the chatter away from the focused, technical lists" |
| WEBWOMEN-GRAPHICS |
anything related to the creation and/or manipulation of comupter graphics |
| WEBWOMEN-HTML |
for women web-content developers |
| WEBWOMEN-TECH |
for women who manage the technical aspects of web sites |
| WISDOM |
Women's Internet Site Development and Online Mentoring for Australian women and others interested in internet literacy |
| WOMEN-L |
discussing women's issues with a focus on the internet and technology |
| WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY |
both local and national throuhg the list organization Tropica |
| WOMEN OF KALI |
moderated list for discussions of feminist politics esp. conecerning misogyny in the media and on the net |
| WOMEN SPACE |
how women and women's organizations are using the internet |
