Dear all: I have put together the information that those of you who responded at length about the Women´s Media Pool have sent so far. Soon you will receive the invitation to the list serve for the coordination of this pool. Regards, Maria Suárez, FIRE.

                                                                                          DigitallFuture

Hallo Maria! Thank you for taking this initiative. DigitallFuture is the new publication that comes out 4 times a year, providing a feminist analysis of international events. Les Penelopes leads the editorial effort on behalf of the European and North American WomenAction inititiative. The IIAV provides logistical support and is a main fundraiser for the magazine. Dominique Foufelle will be with the DigitallFuture team in Porto Algegre, as will Mina Saadadi (and Dafne Plou and Mavic Cabrera Balleza), so do speak with them about it if you get the chance - and please, do contribute to the DigitallFuture during WSF. The news team will produce online articles throughout WSF and then, in the short period leading up to B+10, will edit all into a two-language 16 page tabloid publication (French and English) which we will have on sale at B+10. Then, at B+10, we will collect materials from the writers there, including our newest colleagues from Women's e-News, and publish online and later in tabloid form. So clearly there is a great opportunity here to work with the media pool. We are deeply commited to cooperation and look forward to exploring this idea of your further! our best wishes Lin McDevitt-Pugh

                                                                               International Women´s Tribune Center

Dear Maria, dear all, Thanks for all the work you re doing in relation to the media pool. It is really great that you have been able to get support from people in the UN Public Information Office and Women s Radio. Here s a quick response to the following questions: We are calling for a meeting with infocom organizations on 26 February, we are planning an interactive online chat among women who are working on peacebuilding issues who may not be physically present in the CSW. The objective is to explore the various ways in which women participate in peacebuilding processes. We have requested space for this on 02 March from 3 to 5 p.m. We will also be participating in the APC WNSP panel on gender and ICT. We are based in NYC so this might not be applicable but we have computers with broadband Internet connection and the standard office equipment and facilities. also, following the concerns expressed by some of us regarding the exclusion of women and media in the series of online discussions that UN DAW is organizing in preparation for the upcoming CSW session and B+ 10 meeting, the International Women's Tribune Centre is proposing to hold a discussion among women's media and infocom groups during (or right before) the CSW. The objective of the discussion is to strategize on how we should raise this issue with UN DAW and perhaps with UNESCO since it was the key UN organization that was mandated to organize the women and media meeting prior to Beijing and certainly still the UN agency that has media in its purview. We would also like to to talk about how media is not considered a priority issue in this CSW or in other Beijing + 10 discussion spaces overall; and explore how we would want to work collectively during the CSW. In relation to this, we would also want us to examine the reasons behind the diminishing funds allocated for media and infocom work. We suggest to hold the meeting on 26 February (Saturday), day before the meeting of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women. Do you have other suggestions with respect to the date? I will reserve a space as soon as I hear from you. Please let us know of other women's media and infocom organizations (who are already coming to the CSW) that we should invite. Lastly, may we also ask who is coming from each organization and when and whether you're staying for the entire CSW session or not? Warm regards, Mavic Cabrera, IWTC

                                                                                            CYBERLINKS

The African Gender and Media (GEM) Initiative and interested gender/media/ICT networks will run daily “cyber dialogues” during the Beijing Plus Ten Review. The main aim of the cyber dialogues is to bring the voices of women not able to attend the CSW, especially in Africa, to the conference; as well as share news and debates with them. The discussions will centre on ten themes taken from the Beijing Platform for Action and Millennium Development Goals, as well as breaking news reported in GEM News, the daily conference newspaper being produced in hard copy and online during the conference by the two GEM partners: the South African-based Gender Links (GL) and the Nairobi-based African Woman and Child Feature Service (AWC). The cyber dialogues will add a dynamic, interactive component by facilitating face to face discussions on the content, as well as the sharing of views across countries and continents. These views will feed back into the conference through a daily column in the next day’s newspaper.

                                                                                       WIN AMARC

Dear people from FIRE, I was very enthousiasitc to read the mail in which the Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE) announced that it will be doing live multimedia coverage of the Beijing + 10 process at the CSW in addition to a webcast on March 8, 2005. The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)has decided in partnership with the World March of Women to do a special broadcast for the 8 of March: Women’s International Day. This will impart give a good opportunity for creating momentum regarding the Beijing + 10 meeting that will follow the 8of March, as well as presenting a great opportunity to draw attention to the importance of community radio as a source for the empowerment and emancipation of women. We have already contacted our members throughout the world in order for those interested to participate in the 8 of March International Broadcast. Those interested will either send us pre-recorded audio programs or broadcast live during the International Women's day. If you are interested we could discuss more how we could collaborate on this important day. In addition, AMARC's Women International Network (WIN) would like to know more about the Women Media Pool you are trying to create and thus desire to be added on to the chat room. Three of our WIN representative (from Asia, Africa and North America) will be present at the CSW. I look forward to hear from you. Sincerely, Sophie Toupin Administration and membership officer, AMARC International Secretariat, Montreal, Canada.
^{Fatou Binetou, Grace Githaiga and Lettie Longwe will be there and will participate.}

                                                                                              FIRE

Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE) will be doing live multimedia coverage of the Beijing + 10 process by the Commission on the Status of Women
(CSW) between February 28 and March 11, 2004. The webcasts will include a full day broadcast on March 8, 2005 – International Women´s Day.
FIRE is also calling on media practitioners and organizations to jointly create a Women´s Media Pool that could contribute to share and articulate the
media work that women communicators and their organizations will do in terms of promoting the assessment and appraisal of the full spectrum of the Platform
for Action and the Declaration by way of press releases, electronic network reports, TV, community and commercial radio and internet during the Beijing +
10 process. Such initiative has as background and reference the Women´s Media Center organized by many of us during the IV World Conference on Women 1995 and the Women Action initiative during Beijing + 5 in New York in 2000. FIRE has just finished a five year study of out internet radio audience in terms of ICT, women and interactivity, that will be published in July by the Feminist Media Journal. It might be a good case study. We will bring it.

                                                                                          FEMNET

Dear Mavic: Greetings from FEMNET in Nairobi and thank you for your message. Thank you too for taking the initiative to pull us all together on this. FEMNET will be there and we'd be happy to meet either just before or during the CSW on this issue. We'd also be happy to assist with lobbying around this throughout the session. Will ensure that communications/media groups from Africa who might be coming get the information about the meeting when it's confirmed. Warm regards.
Dear Maria. Good idea and we'll support you on this. Am having the notice circulated to our CSW listserve to make sure that all African women's communication/media organisaitons who might be there get back to you directly. And do liaise with Mavic while at the WSF as she's trying to pull together a meeting of women's communication/media organisations as well re: lobbying around the outcomes documents. Hope you're well and warm regards. Muthoni.

APC - Karen Banks will be in New York (but only 6-11), involved in WSIS <sup>Prepcom II amongst other things. She expressed she will be happy to help out liaising on how to get the tabloid around the WSIS circles.

Solange R. Echeverria: Count me in! Associate Producer, Flashpoints 94.1 FM</sup>