The Gyeonggi Women’s Talent Development Center (Chaired by Jo Jeong-ah) reports that 15 female public officials from 12 different countries, including Sri Lanka, have recently visited the center. The visiting foreign officials were given a tour of the e-Learning center, met with the business ownership support team, and viewed the computer training room. The visit was an opportunity for them to benchmark the center’s unique success stories and operational expertise, so as to better develop the capabilities of women in their own countries.
The Gyeonggi Women’s Talent Development Center has demonstrated truly exemplary ways of utilizing the potential of women, through establishing and running an e-Learning center for women, providing women with IT/CT professional training, supporting female business owners, and launching a women’s information network. These activities have yielded considerable results, and are expected to play a pivotal role in expanding the movement to encourage women to develop their potentials more fully.
The center was acknowledged as a global benchmark in terms of encouraging the development of women’s capabilities in the knowledge and information-based society when it was designated the “Best Practice of Economically Empowering Women by Utilizing IT” by domestic and foreign related institutions and expert groups, including UNDP, UNESCO, OECD, etc. The center has since been benchmarked by over 100 women from 40 countries every year.
The center was in the global spotlight when it displayed its expertise in the area of providing support for women business owners, and described the outcome of and background to its IT training project at the “Gender Equality and Information Communications Forum”, which it hosted in June 2005, and which was participated in by 200 international experts from 35 countries during the WSIS Gender Division conferences, and during the “The 2nd Knowledge Information-based Society World Summit”, which was held in Tunisia with 22,000 participants from 173 countries in November 2005.
Furthermore, representatives of the center were invited to the “2nd WGC International Conference – Economic Empowerment of Women and Human Resources Development” held in May, 2006 in the US, and the “International Symposium on Gender-Recognizing Policy and Strategy to Eliminate Gender Discrimination – Strategy and Utilization of e-Learning for Female Human Resources Development” held in July, 2006 in Seoul, where they made a presentation on the center’s well-structured HR development system.
This visit to the center by foreign women public officials is expected to make a significant contribution to women’s economic empowerment, strengthen the international standing of Gyeonggi Province and the center, and accelerate the laying of a foundation for the creation of an international network, by providing the visitors with a successful case of how the capabilities of women can be developed.