Did you know that two thirds of people around the world who are blind are women?

To highlight this fact, Sightsavers has launched a Women and Blindness campaign in collaboration with iconic photographer Rankin. Working with six renowned make-up artists he has produced some incredible images, and we've launched a micro-site to showcase them:

 http://www.sightsavers.org/rankin

It would be great if you could view the site, share the link with your friends, family and colleagues, and become a fan of Sightsavers on Facebook and Twitter!

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Santa Clara, CA

This week's episode of This Week in NetSquared News is up on the Net2 podcast.  For the past month, we've been uploading audio recordings from the NetSquared Conference sessions onto the NetSquared podcast channel.  To help you decide if you want to download an hour-long conference session, I'll be including clips from some of the sessions each week in This Week in NetSquared News.  This week, I've included a 5-minute clip from the Gender and the Social Web panel.

Thanks to rockstar volunteer podcast editor, Ryan MacArthur, the NetSquared Conference session, Gender and the Social Web, New Tools, Same . . . Stuff? is up on the NetSquared Podcast.

The panel was moderated by Susan Mernit and included Catherine Geanuracos,Christine Herron,Fran Maier and Lisa Stone.

Anna Feldman is the Strategic Use Programme Project Developer, at the Association of Progressive Communications (APC). The APC is an international association with a virtual office. Anna is currently working on web conceptualization and planning for GreenNet in the UK, a progressive ISP and founding organization of the APC.

Anna and I talked about the work of the APC at the NetSquared conference.

Check out this cool site, genderIT.org.  They monitor ICT policies that affect women around the world.  You can browse the site by issues that interest you (i.e. education, health, cultural diversity), or by the part of the world that interests you (Africa, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific).  They also have site guides tailored to Beginners and Policy Makers.