Preface. Freedom to create : women's agenda for cyberspace / Lourdes Arizpe -- Cyborg melody : an introduction to women on the net (WoN) / Wendy Harcourt -- Part one, Moving from cyberspace to cyberculture. Crossing borders : from crystal slippers to tennis shoes / Marisa Belausteguigoitia Ruis -- Gender, place, and networks : a political ecology of cyberculture / Arturo Escobar -- Virtual voices : real lives / Gillian Youngs -- Internet, emergent culture, and design / Silvia Austerlic -- Exclusion and communication in the information era : from silences to global conversation / Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojevic -- Part two, Women creating global communication. Mapping women's global communications and networking / Alice Mastrangelo Gittler -- Global networking for change : experiences from the APC Women's Programme / Edie Farwell ... [et al.] -- Shifting agendas at GK97 : women and international policy on information and communication technologies / Sophia Huyer -- Global business, national politics, community planning : are women building the linkages? / Nidhi Tandon -- Part three, Women's voices on the internet -- They speak, but who listens? / Laura Agustâin -- Information technology and cyberculture : the case of Zanzibar / Fatma Alloo -- The Hoþokele netwarriors in the liquid continent / Kekula P. Bray-Crawford -- Staking their claim : women, electronic networking, and training in Asia / Rhonda O. Bautista -- Empowering on-line conversations : a pioneering Australian project to link rural and urban women / June Lennie ... [et al.] -- ALAI : a Latin American experiment in social networking / Sally Burch -- Information and communication technologies and identity politics in Iran / Farideh Farhi -- Unveiling the Arab woman's voice Alshejni -- Conclusion. Local/global encounters : WoN weaving together the virtual and actual / Wendy Harcourt.