Gender Equality and Poverty Reduction in the Knowledge Society
The emphasis on ICTi as a tool of economic and social empowermenti for underprivileged women raises new research questions that are relevant both for advocacyi and project work by NGOs as well as for...
View ArticleE-Governance Initiatives in an Indian State: Some Observations from a Gender...
After the formation of the separate statei of Chhattisgarh, State governmenti has framed a very comprehensive and ambitious IT policyi with an aim to use ICTi for the benefit of all its citizens. Due...
View ArticleGender in the information Society: Emerging issues
This publication is a collection of 13 papers developed for a pre-World Summit on the Information Societyi seminar, produced by UNDP-APDIP in partnership with UNIFEM and IT for Change. It showcases...
View ArticleGender and ICT policies: how do we start this discussion?
"Although the women’s movement has adopted ICTis in their work as an important tool, it has given little attention to ICT policies". This and many other issues were discussed in the workshop...
View ArticleDoing IT on Paper
This article examines the discrepancy between Pakistan's national IT policyi and the reality of access and use on the ground. It argues a case for the revision of this policy by taking into existing...
View ArticleICT policy: a beginner’s handbook
The book outlines issues and processes involved in ICT policymaking and advocacy. It covers areas such as the significance of ICT and Internet policies, markets and access, national ICT and internet...
View ArticleICT policy: a beginner’s handbook
The book outlines issues and processes involved in ICT policymaking and advocacy. It covers areas such as the significance of ICT and Internet policies, markets and access, national ICT and internet...
View ArticleGender Equality and Poverty Reduction in the Knowledge Society
The emphasis on ICT as a tool of economic and social empowerment for underprivileged women raises new research questions that are relevant both for advocacy and project work by NGOs as well as for...
View ArticleE-Governance Initiatives in an Indian State: Some Observations from a Gender...
After the formation of the separate state of Chhattisgarh, State government has framed a very comprehensive and ambitious IT policy with an aim to use ICT for the benefit of all its citizens. Due to...
View ArticleGender in the information Society: Emerging issues
This publication is a collection of 13 papers developed for a pre-World Summit on the Information Society seminar, produced by UNDP-APDIP in partnership with UNIFEM and IT for Change. It showcases...
View ArticleGender and ICT policies: how do we start this discussion?
"Although the women’s movement has adopted ICTs in their work as an important tool, it has given little attention to ICT policies". This and many other issues were discussed in the workshop “Networking...
View ArticleDoing IT on Paper
This article examines the discrepancy between Pakistan's national IT policy and the reality of access and use on the ground. It argues a case for the revision of this policy by taking into existing...
View ArticleGender in the online news: The 2010 GMMP
Since the 1995 conference in Beijing, the Global Media Monitoring Project has provided a snapshot of gender imbalances in the world's media, once every five years. This year, they expanded the coverage...
View ArticleThinking about gender and technology
In South Africa a video recently went viral in which a young woman is gang-raped. This video has re-ignited discussions around gender-based violence within the country, many of these discussions have...
View Article5 reasons why surveillance is a feminist issue
Contemporary surveillance practices are to a large extent big data driven, underpinned by a collect-it-all logic, and ever expanding due to fear-mongering, yet pervasive national security discourse....
View Article[COLUMN] The Gender Binary: Thank you!
The word Impostor keeps coming up every time a trans woman writes about herself. It is there, just below the surface, despite all the estrogen and progesterone, under all the skin-colour foundation and...
View ArticleComing Back to Tech
There are a growing number of resources to prevent and respond to many kinds of online harassment faced by women and marginalised people working as activists, human rights defenders or journalists. But...
View ArticleThe (mobile) games women play
Games on mobile phones are often a disregarded area of study, because it is relatively cheap and less glamorous than video games. But global consumer spending on mobile gaming in 2015 was estimated to...
View ArticleDigital Storytelling: All our stories are true and they are ours!
It is a sacred act to tell and to listen to stories. Some of our stories are rooted so deep in our cells, psyches and hearts, that it takes an act of courage to find the words to tell them. We each...
View ArticleAlgorithmic discrimination and the feminist politics of being in the data
Global data volume has grown exponentially in recent years and experts expect this trend to continue. The wider trend towards the pervasive datafication of our lives is not one we can just sit out. Big...
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