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EROTICS: Sex, rights and the internet - an exploratory research study

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Jac sm Kee et al on 9 August, 2011 - 13:47
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*Editor:* Jac sm Kee Authors: Manjima Bhattacharjya, Sonia Corrêa, Melissa Ditmore, Kevicha Echols, Maya Indira Ganesh, Marina Maria, Nicolene McLean, Nadine Moawad, Relebohile Moletsane, Jeanne Prinsloo, Tamara Qiblawi, Jandira Queiroz, Horacio Sívori, Bruno Zilli

How is the interneti a key public sphere for the struggle for sexual citizenship and the exercise of sexual rightsi? What is its value to a diversity of users, especially those most marginalised or discriminated against because of their sexual, gender ior other forms of social identity? Why do arguments for the regulationi of the internet anchor on the moral imperative to regulate sexuality? Who are the key actors influencing processes of decision making, and what are the ways in which the potentially liberatory impact of the internet is being constricted and narrowed? The 3 year EROTICSi research project delves into the complex world of sexuality and internet regulation, and uncovers interesting insights to these questions from Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa and the US. The full research findings and a synthesis chapter is presented in this report.

 
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Violence against women and ICTs in the Pacific Islands region: An overview

Sonia Randhawa
Sonia Randhawa on 4 November, 2009
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Sonia Randhawa interviews FemLINK Pacific coordinator Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls to get an overview of violence against womeni in the Pacific Islands region and to look at how ICTs are contributing to increasing the vulnerability of women and providing new forms of harassment and harm, while at the same time grassroots initiatives such as a mobile community radio station are helping to provide women with tools for building self-confidence and information on what to do in times of crisis.

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ICTs: Women, free software, copyrights,… forgotten by Mauritanian legislators and decision-makers

Fatma Mint Elkory Oumrane
Fatma Mint Elkory Oumrane on 12 April, 2009
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Fatma Mint Elkory Oumrane takes a look at the progress Mauritania is making in encouraging open accessi to materials, its copyrighti regime and how these impact on women. She examines the role of women as ICTi graduates and looks at how the governmenti is helping overcome the various digital divides - and the large amount of work that remains to be done.
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Access to Knowledge in Emergency situations: Looking at the situation in Jordan and in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Sonia Randhawa
Sonia Randhawa on 10 April, 2009
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Sonia Randhawa interviewed with Lulu Mitshabu and Daoud Kuttab. Lulu Mitshabu is the Africa Programs Coordinator at Caritas Australia. A Congolese woman, she travels through Africa regularly and is responsible for their Congolese programme. Daoud Kuttab is president of AMARC Middle East and North Africa, and responsible for setting up Jordan's first community radio. He has recently been working with women to help establish the region's first women's community radio station – which has just had its application for a license rejected by the Jordanian authorities.
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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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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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Feminist theory, practices and actions can lead to innovative solutions on internet governance

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 14 August, 2007
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Civil society entities, academic figures and governmenti officials met in Sao Paulo during the first few days of July to participate in the first seminar of the preparatory process for the meeting of the Internet Governancei Forum, with the aim of developing proposals to take to that forum next November. Amongst the presentations, the talk “Internet governance and issues of gender” by gender and ICTi expert Magaly Pazello stood out. Gender IT.org interviewed her about the political challenges women face regarding access to ICT infrastructure, as well as the coming landscape as the IGF meeting in November approaches.
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Revolution in ICT infrastructure: Hope for the Ghanaian woman

Emily Nyarko
Emily Nyarko on 12 July, 2007
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In the area of telecommunicationsi, Ghana appears to perform relatively well in relation to its neighbours in the West-African region. How does it fare in terms of ensuring that gender concerns are taken into consideration whilst promoting ICTs for development? Emily Nyarko examines this question through a closer look at the Strategic Document for ICT and Gender in the national ICT policyi agenda.
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'Wanting to' versus 'Being able to': The rhetoric of access to the information society

Cecilia Gordano
Cecilia Gordano on 12 July, 2007
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Uruguay has one of the highest rates of interneti coverage in Latin America, but studies that demonstrate this fact is gender-blind. So what have been the experiences of Uruguayan women with new technologies in relation to the three basic dimensions of any digital inclusion initiative, connectivityi, education and infrastructure? This article is translated from the original version written in Spanish genderIT.orgi
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Women’s networks for effective communication

Dafne Sabanes Plou
Dafne Sabanes Plou on 29 March, 2007
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Dafne Sabanes Plou is the regional coordinator for Latin America for the APC Women’s Networkingi Support Programme (WNSP). In mid-March she coordinated the “Building inclusive community networks” workshop in Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut Province, Argentina, in which women interested in learning about strategic uses of information and communication technologies took part. This is an account of the experience, prepared exclusively for GenderIT.orgi.
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