National ICT policy and gender equality, Regional perspective: Asia

Paper prepared for the Expert Group Meeting of the UN Division for the Advancement of Women focussing on the impact of ICTⁱS and their use as an instrument for the advancement and empowermentⁱ of women. The paper compares national policyⁱ in a range of issues including universal accessⁱ, e-governanceⁱ, trafficking of women, pornography, censureship, cybercrimeⁱ and ICTs as a public good. The paper suggests six concrete points of intervention in gender and ictsⁱ for national governmentⁱs to explore.