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19 December 2001: added first announcement for 2002 Arctic Council Women's Conference

The Circumpolar North is the region that circles the North Pole (follow this link to see a map or a text-friendly page of just the map links.). The people who live there, Aboriginal and settler, face difficult environmental, social, political and cultural challenges. The environment is fragile and easily disturbed. The population is widely scattered and small, relative to the temperate and tropical regions of the world. The distances between communities is often great, and communication, while becoming easier, is still often difficult. In addition, eight nations have territory that is intersected by the Arctic Circle: Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, USA (Alaska). It is often easier to travel north-south than it is east-west.

Improved transportation and telephone services, the Internet, and e-mail have been of great benefit to northern peoples. With these tools, we are more easily able tomeet with,  talk to and connect with each other, around the Circumpolar North. Several recent conferences have revealed how important it is to northern people to communicate and work with others who share their interests, goals and dreams. This web site is our contribution to helping people at all levels, from the grass roots to the national governments, connect and, perhaps, build lasting partnerships.

The Northern Women's Web Centre is a revised version of a web site originally created by the Steering Committee of the Different Lives, Common Threads Circumpolar Women's Conference (Whitehorse, November 1999) to promote the conference. That site has served its purpose. Rather than let it fade away, we have undertaken to change its focus.

The goals of this revised site are

1. to be a node in northern women's networking efforts by
1. providing resources and links to and lists of events, conferences, etc., of interest, and
2. offering a location for people to post requests for contact, partnership or collaboration;
2. to host a library of online resources for northern women and those interested in their issues;
3. to host a bibliography of print and other materials of interest to northern women;
4. to be a centre of information on relevant educational opportunities; and
5. to host the Northern Women's Agency and Organizations Directory (coming eventually).

We hope that you find this site useful. If you wish to correspond with the folks behind this site, please feel free to do so. Either post your comments to the guestbook (not currently available), which can be anonymous if you use a pseudonym for your name, or e-mail us at agraham@yukoncollege.yk.ca.

Technical details about this project.