At the FTX, women's rights activists along with ICT4D and communications rights advocates will spend three days together in debates, open exchange skills shares, and five simultaneous training tracks looking at exploring ICTs for advocacy: digital storytelling, social networking, wireless and mobile technologies, audio and video.

The Feminist Tech Exchange has three components - this face-to-face training exchange 10-12 November, strategically planned just prior to the AWID 2008 Forum on Movement Building from 14-17 November. More than 1500 people will come to AWID, and our FTX participants will hone their new skills and add to the AWID coverage, and, we hope, will convince all the women's rights advocates at AWID to see communications rights as one of their top priorities.

At AWID we'll have the FTX HUB, a meeting point for all Forum participants to exchange skills, make presentations about the strategic use of ICTs for women's rights, or participate in the Tech Hunt as part of this year's Take Back the Tech campaign.

The third element is FTX Online, the online space for following these events and blogs, and for continued debate and sharing around the interconnections of feminism, women's rights and technology: http://ftx.apcwomen.org/.

Radio Feminista (FIRE) will have a live broadcast of the thematic dialogues sessions on women and technology: http://www.radiofeminista.net/nov08/notas/FTX.htm starting Monday at 9 am (GMT +2).

Keep visiting FTX Online to see the latest - there will be coverage of the FTX and AWID from the participants themselves, starting on monday.

Feminist Tech  Echange website: http://ftx.apcwomen.org/