International
Women’s Day
8th March 2003-2004
Proposed Programme of Events during the year.
(This is subject to
change as collaborations and dates are finalised.)
An online event to launch the creation of a web based resource of Indian Women Abroad beginning with the DC area. Beginning 8th March 2003 on the occasion of International Women’s Day we will begin to present individual Indian women and their work.
The resource which will be a work-in-progress can be viewed online as the building blocks are put into place. The online event will demonstrate the power of the internet as a communication tool, the power of a virtual community firmly rooted in the ground and will also give us an experience of how the two can be successfully leveraged.
Video-conferencing facilities and other online partnerships for this are being explored and we expect to bring to you some new indigenous technologies developed in India.
The online event will have two sections:
SECTION ONE:
A web-resource of Indian Women Abroad (beginning with women in the USA)
(We expect to expand this resource in the months ahead, to cover all
Indian women abroad.) However we welcome women from others parts of the world even
in phase one and
will try and include as many as possible who contact us.
Women will be invited to participate based on word-of-mouth referrals of their work by friends, family and/or colleagues. We will present individual e-profiles for each woman included. This does not (As is often presumed) exclude the home maker and women who do volunteer work and social service, and who do not work for a salary.
Individuals who
are not already on the web will get the help they need to create an electronic
profile.
We will also provide special discounted web design services (by women for
women) for those who
wish to have a web presence beyond the free e-profile that we
offer. If you would like to learn IT skills at a very discounted rate
check out the course offerings at eLearning
India.
Each invitee participant will need to email:
1: A brief resume or descriptive paragraph about yourself
2: A self portrait or photograph.
3: Three scanned jpeg images of your artistic work especially in the case of performing and visual artists.
For those who do not have any electronic images for
items 2 and 3.
Please mail photographs or slides to:
The Editor
Out of India .Net
Project: Indian Women Abroad
2099 Westchester Drive.
Silver Spring.
MD 20902
USA
Or
The Editor
Out of India .Net
Project: Womenofindia.net
Sundale Apartments GC
55-56 Osborne Road
Ulsoor
Bangalore 5600042
INDIA
SECTION TWO:
Personal Tributes (Open to all men and women)
Is there a woman in your life that you would like to honour.
This will be a Tribute Section where we will post short descriptions of, or messages for Women in our lives who we admire and who have made a difference to us. This could be spouses, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, nieces, sisters, friends, teachers etc. any woman whose contribution to your life you would like to publicly acknowledge.
Those who wish to participate in this section will need to:
1. Send us an email honouring the person, addressed to
womenofindia at gmail.com
with the subject line: "IWD Tribuite" along with (if
possible) an electronic image as an attachment, of the person you wish
to honour. The text will be displayed unedited
and it is advised that it be proof read and contained within 8 to 10 lines.
This will be a collaborative effort with other women professionals from India.
2. A Luncheon Meeting. (For
participants e-profiled.)
Tentative date: 1st week of December 2004.
By invitation only.
Organised by www.outofindia.net in collaboration with sponsors.
Announcements of the location and details of the programme will be emailed to individual participants.
3. An exhibition of
photographs on the theme: "Women of India".
(Date to be scheduled: Tentative date: Fall 2009.)
Padma Shri Rajan Devadas veteran DC based professional
photographer, who has chronicled Indo US relations and the Indian diaspora for
over several decades: spanning nine US Presidencies, has very kindly offered to
loan us photographs from his rare and exquisite collection.
Updates on this will
be online after June 2004.
We welcome your participation and would
like you to stay connected.
Suggestions to improve this resource, and your volunteer time will be greatly appreciated.
Here is a sample of the invitation we will send out to women who you recommend.
(Thanks for pointing out the typos to us. We
appreciate your critical comments!)
This is an archive file.
The email IDs are not valid please go to www.womenofindia.net
For further information or questions:
email: editor@outofindia.net
This is a private resource and the Editorial Board reserves to right
to invite persons to participate.