The ITF has developed as a global collaborative multi-stakeholder initiative and two years after the start adopted in December 2008 in Kuala Lumpur    'A Bold Global Multi-Stakeholder Strategy and Action-plan to bring about a major break-through in regard to women's participation in the knowledge-based economy' and agreed to launch based on a common Global Framework Ten Regional Centers around the world that together form the Global Women and Technology Network ( The GWT Initiative).

The Regional centers realize the ITF strategy through joint collaborative activities and recommendations for policy and programming.

The ITF

• Functions as a driving force for the Regional Centres under start-up, contributing to programme development, with international expertise and knowledge and resources;
• Can serve to transfer, connect and compare projects and experiences among the regions, for example:
  - Provide comparison of the data and indicators situation in each region to establish global indicators;                                  
  - Contribute to Regional Centre development e.g. As plans for the European Centre for Women and Technology developed, the ITF served as an incubator,  supported groups, and provided expertise and links. The 16 organisations across Europe provided the regional expertise to set the agenda and develop the program in the region.will be responsible for quality certification of the centres.
• Formalized the "Criteria and process for setting up Regional Centres"
• All organizations that join the Regional Centres are required to sign on to the ITF Declaration which will be formally updated by the ITF Secretariat four times a year.
  

State of the Art 2010

• ECWT – The 1st operating regional centre is the European Centre for Women in Technology launched 18 July 2008 with its Secretariat hosted by Papirbredden Innovasjon AS, Drammen, Norway
• CGySI - Latin American Centre on Gender and the Information Society, launched 17 May 2009, hosted by the UNESCO Chair on Women in Science and Technology in Latin America, and FLACSO, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• APCWT - Asia Pacific Regional Centre for Women and Technology initiated in April 2008 and hosted by the Centre for Regional Innovation & Competitiveness (CRIC), Ballerat, Australia -
• Ongoing discussion with CWTAR - The Centre for Women and Technology for the Arab World – started  end of 2008 and hosted by Dubai Women’s College – Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), United Arab Emirates around compliance to ITF regional  centre criteria
• Plans are also underway with partners WOUGNET (Uganda) and  AITI - The Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence on IT (Ghana) to establish regional 2-3 regional centres in Africa.