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ENERGIA News Issue 1, December 1996

Bulletin Board

Coming Events

Technology and Development: Strategies for the Integration of Gender, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 6th, 1997

• If you are curious of the advantages of the integration of gender issues in your technical projects.
• If you are curious of examples of how incorporating a gender perspective can actually improve the implementation of projects.
• If you want to know about practical ways of dealing with gender problems, then our conference will probably interest you!

The domains of the conference will be:

• Enterprises;
• Gender and agricultural technology;
• Gender, energy and environment.

Preceding the conference on June 5th, a small workshop will be held with a restricted attendance. This workshop will bring together some of the main actors working in the field of gender, technology and empowerment.
If you would like to participate in the expert workshop, please send us, before February 15th 1997, a resume of your experience and activities on gender and technology, to the contact address below. We are also interested in experts who would like to give a presentation in the workshop and/or at the conference.
Saskia Everts, TOOLConsult, Sarphatistraat 650, 1018 AV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Tel. +31.20.626 4409, Fax +31.20.4211202, Email saskia.everts@tool.nl

Journals - Call for Papers

Energy for Sustainable Development: The Journal of the International Energy Initiative
The International Energy Initiative is a Southern-conceived, Southern-located, non-governmental international organisation whose objective is to promote the efficient production and use of energy for sustainable development. ESD aims to forge an interacting community of energy actors concerned with the energy systems of developing countries, and to legitimise work in the “new “ area of the holistic/integrated treatment of the hardware-cum-software required. Its concerns are with energy goals, strategies and policies as well as with energy plans, programmes and projects. The journal views energy, not as an end in itself, but as an instrument of sustainable development.
Launched in May 1994, ESD is a bimonthly refereed journal including news, letters, both short (1500 word) and long (up to 10,000 word) articles, and reviews. Submissions on women and gender issues in energy are particularly welcome.
Krishna Prasad, Technical University of Eindhoven, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Tel. +31.40.473168, Fax +31.40.464151, Email prasad@tn7.phys.tue.nl
S. Rajagopalan, ESD, 25/5 Borebank Road, Benson Town, Bangalore 560046, India; Tel. +91.80.554.3563, Fax +91.80.554.8426, Email esd@iei.uunet.in

Gender, Technology and Development
GTD is a new journal being launched in 1997, to provide a forum for exploring and examining the linkages between changing gender relations and technological development and define policy and programmes in their political, economic and social context.
GTD seeks articles that are innovative and challenging: empirical research, theoretical contributions and field based research reports and case studies. The journal language is English. The journal will appear three times a year and articles are refereed. Prospective contributors should write to:
The Editors, Gender, Technology and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 4, Klongluang Pathumthani 12120 Thailand; Tel. +66.2.516.0110-29/516.0130-44; Fax +66.2.516.2126, Email Kelkargs@ait.ac.th

Internet Resources

HELP!! We are looking for Internet-literate volunteers who can help us search for material on women and energy, and who can give us advice on getting ENERGIA on line, and possibly help construct and maintain an ENERGIA site on the Net.

One source of training materials we have found is http://www.crest.org/renewable/women-and-energy/index.html, an Electronic Slide Show on Women and New and Renewable Sources of Energy, produced by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW). Have network members on the Internet found any other sites on women and energy? Please let us know!

Two other sites to check-out, that consist mainly of links to other sites with loads of informatio on renewable energy are:

• Internet Resources for Renewable Energy/Sustainable Power Community, run by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), with links to renewable energy resources, multilateral and US government agency resources, global change, development and commercial resources, and renewable energy listserves. Log on at: http://syssrv9.nrel.gov/business/international/misc/resources.html
• The Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST), in Washington DC, operates the SOLSTICE information service for the sustainable energy field, with lots of good stuff on energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable living,including index and key word search functions. Go to http://solstice.crest.org/common/crestinfo.html, and click on SOLSTICE.