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Money for tech? Tech and money? Facilitating women’s engagement in the financing discourse through the use of ICT

Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
Mavic Cabrera-Balleza on 21 March, 2008
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IreenDubel.jpgIreen Dubel, the manager of the gender, women and development programme of Hivos is an active participant in discussions on financing for women and development work. Hivos, Ireen’s organisation, is one of the few donor agencies that have consistently supported ICT for development projects.

In this interview conducted by GenderIT.org writer, Mavic Cabrera-Balleza, Ireen shares her thoughts on the links between ICT and financing for women’s empowerment and gender equality.

Read more on the 52nd Commission on the Status of Women
panel report, "Why the Purse Feels Empty: Financing for women's equitable
access to information and communication technologies":
What are the current financing trends and challenges in the ICTD sector?
LISTEN: Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Role of ICTs in securing funds for women's groups [part 4]
LISTEN:
Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Donor's
perspective on financing gender and ICT initiatives [part 3]
LISTEN:
Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Effective
Financing Mechanisms to Progress Gender Equality [part 2]
LISTEN:Communication
Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Financing Trends and
Challenges in the ICT for Development [part 1]

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“We are in the process of constructing a new political field, and this is just the beginning”

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 19 March, 2008
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Magaly Pazello is a Brazilian researcher and consultant in gender and information and communication technologies (ICTi) and a member of the g2g group. She was the only woman from Brazil to participate in the entire World Summit on the Information Societyi (WSIS) process. In an exclusive interview with GenderIT.orgi, Magaly highlights the debates about the reduction in international funding for Latin America, and observes that the search for new partnerships and creation of innovative projects are fundamental steps for moving forwards in constructing this new political field. But also, that “this is just the beginning” of the process.

Read more on the 52nd Commission on the Status of Women panel report, "Why the Purse Feels Empty: Financing for women's equitable access to information and communication technologies":
What are the current financing trends and challenges in the ICTD sector?
LISTEN: Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Role of ICTs in securing funds for women's groups [part 4]
LISTEN: Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Donor's perspective on financing gender and ICT initiatives [part 3]
LISTEN: Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Effective Financing Mechanisms to Progress Gender Equality [part 2]
LISTEN:Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Financing Trends and Challenges in the ICT for Development [part 1]
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Of empty purses and tattered pockets: Stitching funding back into gender and ICT

Erika Smith
Erika Smith on 19 March, 2008
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The panel on women's communication rights "Why the purse feels empty: Financing for women's equitable access to informationi and communication technologies" during the recent 52nd CSW brought together donor, development and civil society perspectives on the issue. Erika Smith presents an overview of the discussion around the challenges, importance and opportunities of financing ICTi for women's communication rights in this article.

Read the full report on 52nd Commission on the Status of Women panel, "Why the Purse Feels Empty: Financing for women's equitable access to information and communication technologies":
What are the current financing trends and challenges in the ICTD sector?
LISTEN: Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Role of ICTs in securing funds for women's groups [part 4]
LISTEN: Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Donor's perspective on financing gender and ICT initiatives [part 3]
LISTEN: Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Effective Financing Mechanisms to Progress Gender Equality [part 2]
LISTEN:Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Financing Trends and Challenges in the ICT for Development [part 1]
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Financing for ICT for Development in India

Weiting Xu, Research Associate at IT for Change
Weiting Xu, Research Associate at IT for Change on 17 March, 2008
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Information and communication technologies (ICTi) is increasingly recognised by governments, the private sector and civil society alike in its potential to address existing obstacles to social and economic development of disadvantaged groups, as well as to transform the very systems that create inequalities in the first place. To this end, the work of ICT for Developmenti (ICTD) is critical. GenderIT writer, Xu Weiting examines the role of the Statei and the private sector in creating enabling environments for the sustainabilityi and success of ICTD initiatives, as well as the importance of women's inclusion and participation to ensure that they meet their broad development objectives of social, economic and political empowermenti.

Read more on the 52nd Commission on the Status of Women panel report, "Why the Purse Feels Empty: Financing for women's equitable access to information and communication technologies":
What are the current financing trends and challenges in the ICTD sector?
LISTEN: Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Role of ICTs in securing funds for women's groups [part 4]
LISTEN: Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Donor's perspective on financing gender and ICT initiatives [part 3]
LISTEN: Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Effective Financing Mechanisms to Progress Gender Equality [part 2]
LISTEN:Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Financing Trends and Challenges in the ICT for Development [part 1]
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Where is the Money for Women's Rights Work on ICT? A brief look at the funding landscape for women’s organisations working on information and communication technologies

Lucía Carrasco and Fernanda Hopenhaym, with Cindy Clark
Lucía Carrasco and Fernanda Hopenhaym, with Cindy Clark on 17 March, 2008
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AWIDFundHer.gifIn collaboration with the Association for Women's Rightsi in Development (AWID), Lucía Carrasco, Fernanda Hopenhaym and Cindy Clark focuses the findings from "Where is the money for women's right? Strategic Initiative" onto the field of information and communication technologies (ICTi) and gender.

In addition, it includes some highlights from an interview conficted with Ms. Sonia Jorge, a specialist in Communications Policyi and Regulationi working on Gender and Development. This article presents a good overview on the financing and budgetary landscape of women's rightsi organisations working in ICT, and provides valuable recommendations on how to re-think the relationship between money and movements.
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Funding ICTs: where will the money come from?

Brenda Zulu
Brenda Zulu on 8 December, 2005
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The Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF) was proposed by Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade at Phase I of the World Summit on Information Society i(WSIS) Summit. It was inaugurated by the Nigerian President Olusegun Odasanjo in March 2005, in Geneva. This fund is seen a voluntary and complementary financing mechanism to supplement existing financial mechanism. It is registered in Switzerland.
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Gender equality may constitute a normative consensus, but the political will is lacking

Heike Jensen
Heike Jensen on 8 December, 2005
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Heike Jensen, researcher and lecturer at the Department of Gender iStudies of Humboldt University in Berlin, (Germany), is one of those hardworking gender advocates, whose “effort and time spent gathering information, sleepless nights, many cups of coffee , talking, training, skills sharing, lobbyiing and writing” focussed on integrating gender as a relevant dimension of WSIS process and outcomes. She has been involved in the process almost since the beginning, worked as member of the German Civil Society Coordinating Group, the NGO Gender Strategies Working Group and the WSIS Gender Caucus, where she is a member of the Steering Committee. In contrast to GenderIT.orgi writer Jac sm Kee, she sees the results of seven years advocacyi more optimistically. Here is her initial assessment of the achievements in terms of gender written few days after the conclusion of WSIS process.

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From Geek to the WSIS Gender Caucus

Jack sm Kee
Jack sm Kee on 7 December, 2005
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Jac sm Kee grabs a conversation with Jacqueline A. Morris during WSIS PrepComm3 at Geneva, and finds out about how a girl from Trinidad & Tobago ends up being a gender i& ICTi advocate, her insights about the two priority issues in WSIS Phase II – financing and internet governancei – as well as the efficacy of the WSIS Gender Caucus.

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Gender and ICT Issues at Women's World Congress

Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
Mavic Cabrera-Balleza on 12 July, 2005
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Gender and ICTi advocates from all world regions joined some 2,000 other women activists at the Women's Worlds Congress 2005, Korea, June 19-24. The advocates met separately for 2 days at Sookmyung Women's University to discuss gender and ICT issues at the World Summit for the Information Society i(WSIS 2005). The meeting produced the Seoul-Gyeonggi Declaration which outlines gender issues and recommendations in relation to internet governancei and financing mechanisms.
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What are the current financing trends and challenges in the ICTD sector?

Willie Currie
Willie Currie on 11 March, 2008 · Global
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financing, ICT4D, Universal Access Fund, UNGAID, Monterrey Consensus
Willie Currie outlines the current financing trends and challenges in the ICTD sector at the panel “Communication Rights for Women - Why the Purse feels empty? Financing for women's equitable access to Informationi and Communication Technologies”, organised by APC WNSP, UN DAW and IWTC during the 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York in February 2008.
 
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