Global Innovation Dialogues March 1, 2007

Who: GWLN hosts its first 2007 Global Innovation Dialogue, a two-hour forum for women and men in corporate, non-profit and government sectors, to engage in a guided dialogue that will produce breakthroughs in thinking, creativity, and taking action, as participants discover new expressions of leadership to meet today's global challenges.

What: Dr. Nancy J. Hafkin, author of Cinderella or Cyberella?- Empowering Women in the Knowledge Society, will lead participants in a dialogue to unleash the possibility of women in developing countries as innovators in a knowledge society.

Why: Historically, women in developing countries have provided much of the labor, from farming and food production to small-scale enterprises, but have had little access to economic aid, education and health care. For the past 30 years, Dr. Hafkin has worked on issues of gender inequity in Africa and promoting information technology for African development.

Through Hafkin's work with the U.N., the Pan African Development Information System and the African Information Society Initiative, she is making computers accessible to the women of Africa; figuring out how to make technology relevant to solving the problems in their daily lives and creating female-friendly environments to help them learn. Hafkin's work in information and communication technologies is bringing the women of Africa into the knowledge society.

About Global Women's Leadership Network:
The Global Women's Leadership Network is sponsored by Santa Clara University. The organization educates women in becoming international leaders and establishes worldwide connections that support their success. In turn, those women partner with GWLN in building an international network of women leaders who dare to transform the future of their organizations, communities, and the world.

$35 by 2/25; $45 from 2/26-2/28; $55 at the door.

Official Website: http://www.scu.edu/business/gwln/programs/