Empowering Co-ops through Information Technology (Part 1)

Message from the Asian Women in Co-operative Development Forum (AWCF): In 2004-2007, AWCF and InWent (Capacity Building International, Germany) implemented in three of AWCF's member-organizations the Project "it@coops" (Information Technology for Southeast Asian Co-operatives). The Project was supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany. Participating organizations were the Credit Union League of Thailand (CULT), Thailand; Forum for Indonesian Co-operatives Movement (FORMASI Indonesia), Indonesia; and National Confederation of Cooperatives (NATCCO), Philippines. The Project's overall objective was to provide poverty-oriented co-ops in Southeast Asia with skills in, understanding of, and access to IT that will make them more competitive. It was oriented extensively, but not exclusively, to women who put in above-average involvement in co-ops and who provide valuable economic and social work. The it@coops Project also aimed at transforming the new IT forms into popular and gender-accountable instruments to help co-ops pursue their social and economic goals amid the challenges of globalization. This video is an excerpt of a presentation made by AWCF at the "Regional Forum on it@coops: Empowering Co-operatives through Information Technology" that it convened with InWent on 19-21 November 2007, Antipolo City, Philippines, participated in by stakeholders in the project.

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Education

Tags:

• gender forum
• cooperatives
• CUPC
• CULT
• SEDOC
• CAEV
• FORMASI INDONESIA
• NATCCO
• gender equality
• gender equity
• gender and development
• transformative leadership
• women empowerment
• information technology
• IT
• business development center
• BDC
• small and medium enterprise
• SME
• co-op members
• women entrepreneurs
• it@coops