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The next organizers! | Recommendations
At the business meeting of the Know How Conference in Kampala, (27 July 2002) the participants
asked Isis-WICCE and the IIAV to send out a call for bids for the next Know How Conference.
Several excellent organisations had indicated their willingness to host the next conference
and, in order to know how to choose, we established a process.
First, we established criteria for an organisation to qualify for the task of host. The criteria are:
They have the capacity to raise funds, for the organisation of the conference and for getting
sponsorship funding for participants from the Global South. Experience in organising conferences
especially at the regional level Willingness to include the Know How planning in their strategic
plan and willing to drop 20% of what they are doing for at least twelve months in order to have
the time to invest in the preparation. The organisation must be committed to gender studies,
women's movement, information dissemination and be a resource centre. To avoid bureaucratic
problems preference is given to autonomous women's information organisations (rather than
organisations that have to, for example, deal with University boards in all their decision
making processes).
In selecting the candidate, preference will be given to organizations from the Global
South (which includes Eastern Europe).
How to make your candidature known:
Please write a letter/email to the Program Committee (c/o l.mcdevitt-pugh@iiav.nl) describing
- Your interest in organising the next Know How Conference
- What you think your organisation will bring to the Conference
- Your ideas on the themes and working method of the Conference
- The advantages of oganising the Conference in your country
- Your ideas on setting up a program committee and structures for spreading the decisions on content of the conference
- Are there new things you intend to bring to the conference - for example new themes, or new categories of participants?
- How many participants do you want to cater for and what percentage of these will be sponsored
- Anything else of importance!
In preparing your bid, feel free to request information from any of the previous hosts regarding
logistics of organising the Know How conference. Please note there are no 'rules' in organising
such a conference. There are some starting points, for example that it is a global conference,
that effort is put into ensuring participation from groups in the Global South, that regionally
diverse committees influence the content of the conference and that the conference is a
networking tool and a political tool.
In your bid you at liberty to request assistance from previous organisers in the actual task of
organising the conference (they can say yes or no!). For example, Isis-WICCE requested assistance
from both the IIAV and Isis-International Manila (and they said yes).
At the end of this message are the recommendations from the Kampala Know How Conference
participants to future organisers.
Process:
1. Present your proposal to the committee by Friday October 4, 2002.
2. The Committee will deliberate by email and teleconference and announce their decision on
Friday 1 November.
Please pass this on to organisations you think may want to see this information!
RECOMMENDATIONS From the Know How Conference Kampala to the future organisers
of Know How Conferences
July 2002
1. Child-care facilities at succeeding Know How conferences were recommended.
2. Youth should be part of all plans and preparations, and represented as participants from
every world region. Only in this way will the future of Know How be assured. The number of
youngish women at Know How 2002 was deeply appreciated. The experience and wisdom of seasoned
feminists was also noted.
3. All efforts to encourage the participation of groups not represented at this Know How
Conference e.g. women information specialists and activists from the Caribbean, the Pacific,
the Middle East, indigenous, migrant Latin American and other minority communities, are strongly
supported and recommended.
4. Participant's skills and expertise should be utilized whenever possible to put presentations,
inc. PowerPoint presentations, interviews, etc. on-line throughout the conference to increase the
outreach and visibility of the meeting. This would also encourage active participation by those
women who could not attend in person.
5. Presentations should be limited, both in number and in length, so that there is more time given
to questions and other interactions with the audience.
6. Internet facilities for the uploading of conference material, including digital photos, articles,
and interviews, should be made available to the degree possible, for media outreach throughout the
conference. The Internet Café at Know How 2002 was an exceptional addition and a much
appreciated facility. It is recommended that such a café be included in succeeding Know Hows.
7. Translation into French and Spanish should be mandatory at all plenaries, as was the case
at Know How 2002. These facilities should be extended to discussion groups, work groups and
capacity-building if feasibly possible. The degree to which other important and essential
languages can be added is also encouraged, e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Hindi, Urdu,
Russian and other languages utilized by large populations of women information and communication
activists.
8. The independence and autonomy of Know How as an important international gathering of women
information and communication specialists should be maintained, and collaboration with a much
larger and multi-focussed conference discouraged. If another collaboration of this kind is planned,
more efforts to highlight the importance and expertise of the Know How Conference, and to integrate
the programme into that of the larger conference, could be considered.
9. Hotels and other accommodations for participants should be recommended to participants on the
basis of cost, proximity to the conference, security and night noise level. It should however be
noted that for most participants, accommodations and other arrangements made for participants were
very acceptable and appreciated.
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