This Section is primarily for policy makers who deal with national ICT policy strategies, as well as ICT governance or global and regional policy frameworks. You'll find language, guides and other information which provide a basis for drafting gender-sensitive ICT policy frameworks.

About GenderIT.org

GenderIT.org, the Gender and ICT Policy Monitor, is the result of months of researching, classifying, interpreting and monitoring ICT policies which affect women around the world, but specifically in four regions – Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central Eastern Europe and Latin America.

The Monitor has three main objectives:

• To develop an information resource/knowledge sharing site for gender and ICT advocates, civil society organisations and policy makers that wish to be active in gender and ICT policy.
  
• To raise awareness among civil society organisations, specifically in women’s movements, regarding gender and ICT policy issues.
  
• To empower women’s organisations and networks in collaboration with other civil society actors to take action on ICT policy issues and develop ICT policy that meets their needs. To encourage them to lobby for an information society that builds social justice and human rights, at the national, regional and global level.

The Gender and ICT Policy Monitor is integrated with other ICT policy monitoring initiatives of the Association for Progressive Communications, including APC's national ICT policy portals, and regional ICT policy monitors in Latin America, Africa and Europe.

APC WNSP and ICT Policy Advocacy

Since 1993, the APC WNSP has played a leading role in gender and ICT advocacy in national, regional and international arenas. Our ICT policy work began during the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. Since then, the 'gender and ICT' agenda has steadily gained legitimacy as a serious area of concern through painstaking work by women's groups and gender and ICT advocates.

During the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process, we have continued to work with civil society groups to pressure for the integration of a gender perspective into all deliberations and drafting of documents of the Summit. In work leading up to the 1993 Geneva Summit, the APC WNSP participated in the Civil Society Plenary, NGO Gender Strategies Working Group and the multi-stakeholder Gender Caucus. Currently, women who are also members of the APC WNSP serve on the WSIS Gender Caucus and have been elected to the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and Task Force on Financing Mechanisms.

What you can find in the Policy Makers' Section

Why gender in ICT policy?
Here you can learn about the intersections of gender and ICT policy, ICT policy's implications for women, and why there's no such thing as a “gender-neutral ICT policy”.

How to…
Contains guides which will lead you in drafting and monitoring gender- sensitive ICT policy frameworks

Gender Assessments and Research
Resourcees to learn more about the current situation and trends in ICTs, and their impact on women’s lives and gender relations.

Good and Bad Practice
Read "lessons learned" in incorporating a gender perspective into ICT policies and initiatives documented in our collection of case studies.