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Cheekay Cinco has worked as the Regional Coordinator for GEM for ICTs and Internet-based initiatives, one of the major projects of the APC WNSP in the past three years. As such, she has assisted several projects and initiatives in Asia-Pacific in developing and implementing gender evaluation in their work. She was also involved in drafting and finalizing the current version of the GEM tool <http://www.apcwomen.org/gem>. She also assisted the projects supported by GKP through its SGSIP fund in incorporating gender in the evaluation of their projects. Aside from being an active member of the APC WNSP, she is also one of the founding members of WomensHub, a Philippine-based organization that focuses on gender and ICT issues in the Philippines. She is currently managing WomensHub’s project called ‘SheBlogs’, which aims to develop an open source, web management application and website for Filipino women. She has been working in the area of gender and ICT since 1999 when she was the Project Administrator for AWORC, an online regional network of women’s resource centres and organization focusing on utilizing ICTs for women’s empowerment. Her experience in AWORC included managing the network’s regional website for the Five-Year Review of the Beijing Platform for Action. She has also been involved as a trainer, and as part of the coordinating team of the WENT initiative.