ICT and Gender
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Expanding Women's Capacities Through Access to ICT: An overview from Sri Lanka
- This paper by Leelangi Wanasundera, CENWOR, Sri Lanka provides an overview of the current ICT policies and strategies in Sri Lanka and examines whether gender issues at different socio-economic levels are addressed. This paper was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Using ICTs to Bridge the Digital Divide
- This paper by Usha Vyasulu Reddi, Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi, examine several cases of good practice to identify the "principles of good practice". This paper was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Unpacking Internet Governance
- This paper by Arun Mehta, Radiophony, New Delhi, explores gender and internet governance. This paper was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Women, Media and ICTs in UN Politics: Progress or backlash?
- This paper by Heike Jensen, Boell Foundation, Germany, reflect on how the challenges and threats of ICTs relate to the marginalization and discursive framing of women's political demands at the level of the UN. This paper was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Civil Society and Feminist Engagement at WSIS: Some reflections
- This paper by Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change, Bangalore, bring together a historical overview of the particular developments that led to civil society engagement and feminist advocacy in the WSIS processes. This paper was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Gender Issues in the Indian Software Outsourcing Industry
- This paper by Carol Upadhya, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Has IT Made A Difference?
- This paper by Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, explores the relationship between gender and technology. This paper was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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ICTs for Poor Women: Grameen's experiences
- This paper by Nazneen Sultana, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Feminist Perspectives on Gender in the Information Society: Perspectives from Pakistan
- This paper by Najma Sadeque - Shirkat Gah, Pakistan, was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Community Media and Women: Forging subaltern counterpublics
- This paper by Vinod Pavrala and Kanchan Kumar, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, examines the manner in which ownership, management and control of media technologies by community self-help groups of marginalized women has initiated a process of transformation of power relationships at the village-level. This paper was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Cake for the North and Crumbs for the South: The political economy of the information society
- This paper by Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change, Bangalore, was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Local Media and Women's Identity Articulation
- This paper by Tasneem Ahmar, Uks Foundation, Pakistan, focus on the main argument of if and how radio FM channels can be an effective instrument in putting forward the true face of Pakistani women's empowerment. This paper was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Feminist Perspectives on Media
- This paper by Bandana Rana, Sancharika Samuha, Nepal, was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Cyberspace: Bastion of freedom or freedom from responsibility?
- This paper by Anita Anand, Comfirst, New Delhi, explore how women in South Asia have fared in cyberspace. Has it been a liberating tool for them? Or, has it been a free for all, with responsibility thrown to the winds? This paper was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Gender, Community and Citizen's Media
- This paper by Sevanti Ninan, The Hoot, New Delhi, was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Tintoretto's Daughter and the Public Domain
- This paper by Lawrence Liang, Alternate Law Forum, Bangalore, was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Incorporating Gender Issues in ICT Policy Making
- This paper by Mridul Chowdhury, D.Net, Bangladesh, provides a systematic framework for incorporating gender issues in ICT policy documents. This paper was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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ICTs and Women's Livelihoods: How real or tenuous is the connection?
- This paper by Revathi Balakrishnan, FAO, Bangkok, was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Gender Issues in ICT and Poverty Reduction
- This paper by Chat Garcia Ramilo, APC, Philippines, explores current ICT for poverty reduction strategies and how these strategies are impacting on women's economic empowerment. This paper was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Women's Movements And Information And Communications Technologies
- This paper by Anuradha M Chenoy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, was presented at a seminar entitled, "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005" on 18-19 April 2005. The seminar was supported by APDIP and UNIFEM, and organised by IT for Change and partners. Visit the seminar homepage at http://itforchange.net/WSIS/gis/schedule.php
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Collection of case studies on how ICT has influenced women in developing countries
- This book is a collection of case studies about women and their communities in developing countries and how they have been influenced by ICTs. The book is made up of five chapters, covering topics including: (1) the effect of ICT on women’s enterprise creation: a practical example from China; (2) e-business piloting and readiness for rural women weavers in Bhutan: lessons learned; (3) fishers and radios: a case study of Radio Ada in Ghana; (4) development through radio: a case study from Sierra Leone; and (5) gender, ICTs and health in the Caribbean. The paper also includes an annotated bibliography and list of web resources relating to gender and ICTs for development.
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Brave New Women of Asia: How distance education changed their lives
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The Children's Partnership Online
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Computers give homeless a sense of connection
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Dealing with Gender as an ICT Access Issue
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Gender and the Digital Divide - Assessing the Impacts of Telecenters
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Information Access for Rural Women
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Mobile money spinner for village women
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Women Watch
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Global Digital Divide Initiative
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Makerere to Host Women's IT Centre
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Open Society Institute - Internet Program
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WomenAction
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Voices in Your Hand
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A Civil Society Approach to Information Technology & Knowledge Development
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Civil Society Contributed Documents to WSIS
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Communication Rights in the Information Society
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Computer pioneer aids spam fight
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Offshore Outsourcing of Information Processing Work and Economic Empowerment of Women
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A Gendered World: Students and Instructional Technologies
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Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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Gender Barriers to ICT: Identifying Barriers to ICT in Education Based on Gender Differences
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Inuit Find Home on the Web
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Draft Report - Rural Women in Knowledge Society
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Access to ICTs for Rural Women by Lynne Gallagher and Rebecca Mayer
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Asian Women's Resource Exchange
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Women's Networking Support Programme
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Books about Women and Information Technology
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Center for Women & Information Technology
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Cisco Systems and Partners Work Together to Develop Gender-sensitive ICT training Programs
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Digital Divide for Women persists at Work
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Empowering Women through Information and Knowledge: From Oral Traditions to ICT
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Equalizing Access to Information Technologies - a Study of Gender Disparities
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Exploring the Gender Impact of the World Links Program
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Feminist International Radio Endeavour
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Financial Aid for Women in IT
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GEM: Gender Evaluation Methodology
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Gender and agriculture in the information society
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Gender and ICT
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Gender barriers in science, engineering and technology
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Gender Initiative
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Gender, Agriculture and ICTs in the modern Information Society
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Gender, ICT and Agriculture
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Gender, Information Technology and Developing Countries: An Analytical Study
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Gender, Justice and ICTs
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Empowering Women Through ICT
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ICTs and Their Impact and Use As an Instrument for the Advancement and Empowerment of Women
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ICT Policy - Gender Perspectives
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Interview with Dr. Janice Brodman on ICT and Gender
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Isis International-Manila
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Knowledge Base on ICTs
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IT's a Woman's World
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Know-How Conference Highlights
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Norway Pledges Contribution to Support ITU in Bridging the Gender Divide
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Documents - Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society
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Outline of Engendering ICT Study initiated by the World Bank
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Providing tech facilities for women
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Report on the Expert Meeting on Mainstreaming Gender in Order to Promote Opportunities
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Selling Womens Stuff
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Survey shows 'Global' support by women for Communication Technology
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Gender and ICT Seminars
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Using ICTs to Create Opportunities for Marginalized Women and Men: The Private Sector and Community
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Women and ICT
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Women in Global Science and Technology
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Women with Disability in Equality of ICT
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Gender and the Digital Divide Seminar Series #2
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WSIS Gender Caucus
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Getting Gender into ICT Policy: Easier said than done
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Gender-Aware Guidelines for Policy-making and Regulatory Agencies
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Promoting Gender Equality in and through Telecommunications
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Study on ICT Policy from a Gender Perspective
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Women's Studies Section - Science & Technology Web Sites
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Can ICT cross the Gender Barrier?
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Why women lag and why they may lead?
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A Gender Perspective: Career development of IT professionals
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Empowering women self-groups
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Gender Equality (Practice Note)
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Women Empowerment Through Information Technology
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Technology for Women in Business
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Gender Equality & ICT Policy
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From conceptual ambiguity to transformation, Incorporating gender equality and women's empowerment in the ICTs arena
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ICT & their impact on & use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women
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Transforming ICTs for Gender Equality
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Multimedia Gender Training Kit
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ICT for Women's Economic Empowerment
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World Bank's Gender and Development Briefing Note
- ICT and Gender Equality, October 2006
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World Bank's Engendering ICT Toolkit


