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Universal Periodic Review: Submission on internet-related human rights issues in India

Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and APC
Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and APC on 4 April, 2012 - 14:18
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In the submission, the Digital Empowermenti Foundation (DEF) is particularly concerned with making the interneti an effective tool to exercise rights to information in India. DEF believes that the internet plays a major role in accessing information and thus a tool for social and economic development. This submission outlines India’s progress and specific areas of concern: information technology law and policies, the right to information and internet accessi, and internet governancei. The submission also highlights the need for a rights-based approach to internet-related policyi development so it promotes women’s communication rights and sexuality rights.

 
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‘Does your mother know?’ Agency, risk and morality in the online lives of young women in Mumbai

Manjima Bhattacharjya and Maya Ganesh
Manjima Bhattacharjya and Maya Ganesh on 30 March, 2010 · India
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Manjima Bhattacharjya is a sociologist based in Mumbai. Maya Ganesh is an independent researcher and writer based in Bombay, India. She works on gender, media and culture, sexuality and rights. Manjima and Maya are the Indian partners on APC's EroTICs project.

Manjima Bhattacharjya and Maya Ganesh, the India partner of the APC's EroTICsi Project, open their input with the evocative lyrics of a Swedish pop group ABBA: “And I can chat with you baby / Flirt a little, maybe / But does your mother know that you’re out ?” This article is about middle-class women digital natives in Mumbai, the city with the highest interneti use in India, and the initial impressions of their online lives as drawn from interviews and survey data gathered for the ongoing EroTICs research project.

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ICTs for Grassroots: Women from South Asia

Maud Hand
Maud Hand on 1 April, 2005 · India
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Like bright flowers in a grey space, the grassroots women of India livened up February’s Prepcom proceedings and it wasn’t just their stylish saris that did the trick. Undaunted by the suits and officialdom of Geneva’s UN machinery, these Indian representatives vigorously demonstrated the value of ICTs in their working lives and made a cogent case for finances to build more equitable ICT infrastructures in developing countries like India. Over chappatis and chi, they shared their stories with Maud Hand for APCNews.
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Search history: Examining pornography on the internet

Namita Malhotra
Namita Malhotra on 22 March, 2007
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Namita Malhotra examines in this paper, the discourse of pornography in relation to the interneti in India. She interrogates the Indian women's movements negotiation with issues around sexuality and censorship, as well as the various legislative, cultural, and ethical debates that intersect around this issue in recent years.
 
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E-Governance Initiatives in an Indian State: Some Observations from a Gender Perspective

Dr. Anupama Saxena, Dr. Malathi Subramanian
Dr. Anupama Saxena, Dr. Malathi Subramanian on 10 December, 2006
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Chhattisgarh, ICT policy, eGovernance, e-governance, cybercafe, Bilaspur, Durg, digital gender divide, gender divide, literacy, access
The paper explores to what extent the women in the Indian Statei of Chhattisgarh have been able to access and to use e-governancei initiatives, as compared their male counterparts, and how far these e-governance initiatives been able to address and include the needs of women.
 
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Putting ICTs in the Hands of Women of Kanpur and "Chikan" Embroidery Workers of Lucknow: Project Evaluation Methodology

Janice Brodman
Janice Brodman on 6 October, 2006
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evaluation, project evaluation, evaluation methodology, Critical Success Factor. quantitative, qualitative
This report document is based on a field trip by Dr. Janice Brodman, which aimed to help Datamation Foundation (DF) ensure that their evaluationi instruments provide information/data needed to measure project achievements against objectives, and also introduced the infoDev Framework to the DF evaluation team.
 
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Video Films: Women & ICT Projects in India

on 31 August, 2005
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This page links to two documentary films on women and ICTi that were produced in the framework of UNESCO’s pilot project 'Putting ICT in the Hands of the Poor', that are now available online. They examine the information needs of poverty stricken communities in South Asia, with a special focus on gender issues.
 
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