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GENDER AND ICT


Closing the gender divide is a UNESCAP priority enabled through gender-responsive ICT capacity development for women’s organizations, policy recommendations, research publications, and mobilization of international, civil society and governmental organizations. It is essential to focus on the gender dimensions of the digital divide, not only to prevent adverse impact of the digital revolution on gender equality and to enhance women’s access to the benefits of ICT, but also to ensure that ICT becomes a central tool for women’s empowerment and the promotion of gender equality. Policies need to ensure that the gender perspectives of ICT access and use are fully addressed so that ICT actively promotes gender equality and ensures that gender-based disadvantages are not created or perpetuated.

 
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Discussion Paper No. 19: Gender Assessment of Selected E-Business and Strategies in Asia: The Case Studies of Malaysia, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Thailand pdf

Inter-Agency Directory on Women And Information And Communication Technology (ICT) in the Asian And Pacific region

Issues Policies and Outcomes: Are ICT Policies Addressing Gender Equality?,2002

Information Sheet: Gender and ICT: UNESCAP’s activities and recommendations from an Expert Group meeting to review ICT policies from a gender perspective, 2002

Report of the Secretary General, ECOSOC, Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women under, March 2003

Women in Development Discussion Paper Series No. 12: Creating business opportunities for women through ICT, 2001

Women's Organizations and their Use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Caucasus and Central Asia Region: An Exploratory Assessment, 2001

Expert Group Meeting to review ICT policy from a gender perspective
In light of the importance of mainstreaming women in policy and in policy making in the field of information and communications technology (ICT), the expert group meeting was held to review the national, regional and global initiatives for equal ICT access. 18-19 December 2001, Bangkok

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Handbook on Strengthening the women's information network for Asia and the Pacific through computer networking, 1999

Paper on “Potential benefits of ICT and gender-related barriers to fully enjoy them, with particular reference to rural and vulnerable women in the Pacific”, August 2003

INSTRAW Gender Awareness Information and Networking System (GAINS)

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World Bank Initiative on Gender and ICT for Development

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Bridging the Gender Digital Divide: A Regional Report on Gender and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), 2004

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