Sophie Treinen

Sophie Treinen

Organization FAO
Organization type International Organization
Organization role
Information and knowledge management
Country Italy
Area of Expertise
KM, IM, IKM, gender, facilitation, methodologies, gender
Sophie Treinen is working at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, where she is responsible for the Organization’s good practices and the use of Information and communication technologies in agriculture, managing an international team of professionals. She is currently outposted to the FAO Regional office for Europe and Central Asia where she provides assistance to the countries of the region addressing the role of information, communication and knowledge sharing. Her major responsibility is to develop approaches for developing institutional and individual capacities to share knowledge, capitalize on experiences and good practices. She pays particular attention to systems, which make the most of digital and more conventional technologies to address stakeholders’ needs. She is also applying participatory approaches and examining gender issues linked to the introduction of new digital Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), also called e-agriculture. With 30 years of experience, Sophie possesses a varied experience in raising awareness for sustainability issues within the UN, governments, private sector and civil society. She is the FAO Focal Point for the World Summit on the Information Society Action Line on e-agriculture and served as the Organization’s Communication Lead for the UN Global Information Society Group. Before her assignment with FAO, she worked for international cooperation and development organizations (European Union, Non-Governmental Organizations and private sector). She is a member of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) and a member of the Knowledge Management for Development Community (KM4Dev).

This member participated in the following Forums

Forum Forum : « Genre, TIC et moyens de subsistance en milieu rural » Mai, 2011

Question 1 - Lundi 9 mai

Submitted by Sophie Treinen on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 18:16

Pour complèter Oumy, j'aimerais aborder avec vous les facteurs sociaux et culturels  qui peuvent représenter des barrières à l'utilisation des TIC.

A ce propos je poste le réumé de la leçon 1.3 du module Création de communautés et de réseaux électroniques qui se trouve sur le site IMARK http://www.imarkgroup.org/modulelist_fr.asp

et qui traite des factuers clés poru une communauté réussie.

"Les communautés virtuelles ont créé l’opportunité, pour des personnes de tous pays, de « se relier » pour d’accomplir des objectifs communs grâce à des pratiques nouvelles.

Quoique facilitées par la technologie, ces communautés sont profondément influencées par des facteurs sociaux, culturels, environnementaux, organisationnels et techniques.

Les facteurs culturels et sociaux, qui influencent le plus une communauté, sont : l’identité, l’appartenance, la langue, l’attention, le pouvoir et le contrôle."

 

Submitted by Sophie Treinen on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 19:20

Bonsoir à toutes et tous,

Lorsque nous sommes allés visiter le centre de Nakaseke en Ouganda en 2002, une femme rurale âgée était très fière de nous monter comment elle arrivait à utilliser l'ordinateur et le cédérom sur "Comment améliorer ses revenus".

Ce cédérom conçu pour les personnes analphabètes, permettait de naviguer tout en écoutant la voix des différents interlocuteurs qui préconisaient des conseils pour mettre sur pied des activités génératrices de revenus.

Cette dame nous a ainsi appris que grâce à ce cédérom elle a non seulement acheter une truie qui a fait des petits, mais comment par la suite elle a expliqué aux plus jeunes comment utiliser l'ordinateur et le cédérom afin de générer à leur tour des activités génératrices de revenus.

Pour moi la voix est un élément important dans l'utillisation des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication.

 

Forum Discussions

Question1

Submitted by Sophie Treinen on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 19:46
[quote="Lisa-Cespedes"] Question 1- Opened 5th July 1. What is the importance of considering gender issues when working in ICT4D rural and agricultural projects and programmes? What are the key gender issues? [/quote] If you don't take into account gender and don't ask the questions about participation of women and men, their access to ICTs, the different types of benefits each group could get from ICTs, you are missing half of your audience and half of the objectives of your initiative. The tendency with technology, whether it is agricultural technology or ICTs, is to go into the hands of men when woemn have proven the they work. Therefore the challenge is to enable them to keep these technologies in their hands for their own purpose and benefits.
Forum Resources

Resources

Submitted by Sophie Treinen on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 19:08
This are excellent videos. I have watched the one in French and could recognize some of the people we are working with in Western Africa. Sophie
Forum Introductions

Participants

Submitted by Sophie Treinen on Mon, 07/05/2010 - 10:13
Hello everybody, My name is Sophie Treinen, I work for the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations (FAO) as Information and Knowledge Management Officer and I am based in Rome. The topic of this forum is of high interest to me as gender has been part of my work since the 90's and ICTs since I have joined FAO. I hope we will all learned from each other during the discussions. Best regards Sophie :D

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