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www.womenofindia.net
A Network of Women of India Worldwide
Power women to empower IndiaTM

Context
and
Need

The urban India woman is fortunate in terms of equality of opportunity for education and therefore employment and entrepreneurship, yet is lagging behind in special skills needed for the knowledge economy of the 21st century.

The Rural Indian woman’s needs are more basic: for food, shelter, literacy, health and sanitation but it will not be long before the basic needs will be fulfilled and aspirations will emerge, when there will be an urgent need to equip them with the new skills needed in the Digital Age.

India’s Woman Power as a group both Urban and Rural is untapped and the Digital Age presents an unprecedented opportunity.



Slogan

www.womenofindia.net  This is currently a beta site

 Power women to Empower India.
TM

Objective

To leverage technology for development:
To create a web based resource for women of India: Both in India and Internationally.

To tap India’s Woman Power: the under-utilized human resource and skills of under-employed and unemployed qualified urban women.

To encourage women owned small businesses and provide an e-commerce portal for home based businesses and entrepreneurship, to enable them to market their products and services on a level playing field, made possible through communication technology and the internet.
Sample e-store ready in proprietary software.

To provide Women of India the basic skills of IT literacy and Financial literacy to meet the challenges of the digital age,
Online courses and training programs.
Media Partner.

To use the portal to create a knowledge sharing and collaboration environment for mentoring young women and locating resources for financing of ideas.

To provide information on resources, scholarships and opportunities that are intended specially for women offered by Govt. Universities, Foundations and the Private sector.

To find ways to include the large semi-urban population using vernacular communication. Most resources are in English while a very miniscule percentage of persons in India communicate in English.

To create a local job bank of part-time and assignment based jobs for women in a zip-code. This would be beneficial for the invisible woman workforce as well as for companies who will save costs on finding suitable employees or consultants within their localities to meet their HR needs.

To create a grass-roots level community of women who are interested in collaborating to give back to and help with development programmes back in India in their village or home town.

To come together as a powerful group to support social movements both nationally and internationally.
One_Billion_Rising

Community participation

Every woman will be able to register her special skill sets and time availability or constraints into a database that can be searched by companies that are looking to encourage part time or full time employment of the woman workforce.

The womenofindia.net  portal will give companies/employers instant access to centralised information by geographic or any other attributes and will give women the information to seek/leverage the opportunities available.

We will support open educational resources and the FOSS movement: The Wikimedia Foundations efforts in India and support Creative Commons Licences by sharing educational resources and helping to localise content.

 

Looking Forward

The beta site www.womenofindia.net is  online and open for persons to register and for us all to communicate.

We support programmes by and for women.
WOI has already supported its first project ‘Stree Shakti’ a print publication of  about 500 Women Entrepreneurs in Navi Mumbai.
 Need to take it online and create more such local directories.

Our first formal: Saree Conversations” 
held in the Spring 2014:
- IOWA UNIVERSITY SASP
- INDIA CANADA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OTTAWA
- FRIENDS OF WOI TORONTO


Official National  launch:
(Date and to be confirmed)
National Video Conference with representatives from all States participating.

Annual Event: RACE FOR DIGITAL AND FINANCIAL LITERACY.
Rally/Treasure Hunt/Quiz sponsored by companies/Govt. departments to create an awareness of the need for  Basic  IT/Digital Literacy and Financial Literacy for Women. 
The first event will be a pilot one.

We expect that we will be able to duplicate the event in other areas with the goal of doing a Annual National event.

This will be made into a FreeToolkit licenced under CC that we can share with any community that would like to duplicate this effort.

Community Support

Several companies and individuals have already come forward with concrete offers to support the idea. There is a special interest from Women NRIs, Universities and State Departments of Economics Development   to do events in the USA with the Indian diaspora promoting Digital Literacy. The India Club of the World Bank/Fund have offered to host a launch event, and The Gandhi Centre in Washington DC have offered their space for Photo Exhibition on women of India.
Details are being worked out.

Is there one person in this world whose life in some way has NOT been impacted by a woman?

This initiative is not for women by women. We invite all to participate. Collaboration and involvement by the men in our society is equally important. This site will provide a space for all to recognize and pay tribute to the women in their lives who have made a difference. 

For the younger generation we hope to inspire them all to overcome gender differences and look at women in their lives in a new positive light.

 

WOI Friends

We invite all Friends of women of India, to participate in this initiative.
You don’t have to be a woman and you don’t have to be an Indian to support us.

Contact

Harriet Vidyasagar
Founder: Women of India dot Net

This is a personal mission inspired by the women in my family (My mother and my grand-mother, my sister, my daughters, my women friends) which I hope others will share.

“It’s not what I bring…But  what I take away …”from this community of women world-wide that has sustained us all.

http://www.womenofindia.net/tribute.htm
The Women of India Foundation is being set up and our First Board being constituted. We intend to salute women while they live and not after they have left.

www.womenofindiafoundation.org

USA:
1-301-649-2240
1-240-350-6108
1-301-442-8991

INDIA:  
91-99011 66276
womenofindia@gmail.com



 







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