Dear Readers,
We have plans for a major change in the life and work of Isis International in 1990 that we want to share with you. We hope to make our dream of an Isis International office and resource center in Asia come true. But first...
An enormous thank you for responding to our request for feedback on Women in Action! Your ideas, encouragement, and comments are wonderful! We have received replies from all over, but especially from Africa (now what about all of you from other continents??). Many of you have also written about your activities and concerns and we will be printing these in coming issues.
There is still time for the rest of you to send in your comments. We need to hear from you, so that Women in Action will become more and more a channel for networking and communication and also because we need your ideas and encouragement to go forward! So please write!!
Now we want to ask your input once more—this time on our plans for transferring our work from Rome to Asia. The Isis International office in Asia will be an international office (that is important to note) —not a regional one. We feel that it is important to base our international work in the South. We see this as a step forward in promoting South-South communication and of building links of support
and solidarity among women and groups in both South and North. We are encouraged by how this work has flourished in Latin America since we opened an Isis International office in Santiago, Chile in 1984 and we are confident that the move to Asia will have a similar effect. For this we need your participation, encouragement and ideas!
Two of us from Rome will be making an exploratory trip soon, stopping off in India, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the Philippines. If all goes well we will find a new home to move to by mid-1990. We'll be producing Women in Action there and the Isis International Book Series —and we'll be doing a lot more besides. We will be moving our entire collection of resource materials and computerized data
bases, and along with them all our information and networking services. The Health Journal in English that comes out of the Santiago office will also move to Asia. We'll be continuing to work in audiovisuals.
Through a program of training and internships in: resource and documentation centers, computer literacy, international networking, audiovisual production, radio programs and desk top publishing, we hope to share the knowledge and experience that we have built up over the years in networking and communication.
Please share with us your ideas and reactions to this move. We would like to know which parts of our program you are most interested in,and any ideas you might have for other programs we might build up. And please! We would also like your encouragement and support in this move, which is a major undertaking. So please take a minute to send us back the enclosed form, with your comments and suggestions and-we hope-your words of support.