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Science and technology in Latin America: women breaking the glass ceiling

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 15 February, 2011 - 10:12
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Flavia Fascendini is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.
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Latin American women are attaining good levels of education and training for the labour market, including knowledge of ICTis, but APC WNSP regional coordinator, Dafne Sabanes Plou acknowledges that digital inclusion as a factor in economic progress is just beginning to appear on the regional horizon and that gender equityi is still sidelined from ICT policyi discussions. She speaks to GenderIT.orgi Spanish editor Flavia Fascendini about the progress women are making in science and technology in Latin America.

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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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Doing IT on Paper

Reba Shahid
Reba Shahid on 19 December, 2006
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This article examines the discrepancy between Pakistan's national IT policyi and the reality of access and use on the ground. It argues a case for the revision of this policy by taking into existing account socio-cultural inequalities.
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Why do we still discuss women and ICT - after more than 20 years of effort to change the situation?

Ausra Gustainiene
Ausra Gustainiene on 5 April, 2005
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The European Symposium on Gender i& ICTi started as an 'ad hoc' invitation in 2003, with organisers expecting 10-20 participants. Instead, more than 100 abstracts were received and participants came from "all over the world". The scenario repeated itself this year, with people from Scanidinavia, Australia, Korea, USA as well as Europe. A great opportunity to meet researchers as well as women working in the ICT business. However, the overall picture from the symposium was rather pessimistic.

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Radio, Convergence and Development in Africa: Gender as a Cross-Cutting Issue

Mary Myers
Mary Myers on 18 November, 2009 · Africa
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The purpose of this paper is to argue for the consideration of gender issues in all research on radio, convergencei and development in Africa. It is intended to guide the deliberations at our Butare roundtable (September 2009) discussion on a research agenda and to ensure that we put gender considerations front and centre as we design our research plans.
 
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Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing

Ruth Pearson
Ruth Pearson on 1 November, 2007 · Global
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health hazards, RSI
This study looks at the specific health hazards which have been attributed to work with computers, and more specifically to the work situation of inputting or manipulating text or data. In particular, it examines RSI-repetitive strain injuries, which can lead to a total inability to carry out many tasks. The study is a part of the book entitled "Women encounter technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World" and edited by Swasti Mitter and Sheila Rowbotham.
 
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ICTs and Gender - Working Party on the Information Economy

Desirée van Welsum and Pierre Montagnier
Desirée van Welsum and Pierre Montagnier on 10 July, 2007
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This document provides an overview of the gender distribution of ICTi and ICT-related employment in OECD countries, and ICT employment patterns are contrasted with overall employment to highlight how different ICT employment patterns are. The document then focuses on participation in ICT-related education and training, and differences in ICT access and use by gender.
 
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Gender in the information Society: Emerging issues

on 19 December, 2006
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This publication is a collection of 13 papers developed for a pre-World Summit on the Information Societyi seminar, produced by UNDP-APDIP in partnership with UNIFEM and IT for Change. It showcases perspectives that critique the engagement with new technologies in various development sectors such as the governancei, media and work.
 
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Supporting Women's ICT-Based Enterprises: A Handbook for Agencies in Development

Richard Duncombe, Richard Heeks, Sharon Morgan, Shoba Arun
Richard Duncombe, Richard Heeks, Sharon Morgan, Shoba Arun on 17 December, 2006 · Global
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ICT-based enterprises, ICT-based enterprise, business
The Handbook was designed for two purposes: (1) to help governmenti and NGO officials to plan, initiate, evaluate and improve ICTi-based enterprise projects for women; and (2) for facilitated use by groups of poor women themselves who want to start up, manage and improve ICT-based enterprises.
 
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Information and Communication Technologies for Rural Development: Issues and Options

World Bank Rural Development and Natural Resources Sector Unit
World Bank Rural Development and Natural Resources Sector Unit on 8 December, 2006
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telecommunication, poverty, gender divide, connectivity, infrastructure, rural poor, community access center, telecenter, livelihood, agriculture, SME
The report is based on field visits, interviews with local and central governmenti and non-government organizations and desk reviews carried out between December 2004-April 2005. It aims to identify policies, technologies, institutions and investments needed to improve access to informationi and communication technologies (ICTi) in rural areas in Indonesia. A critical part of this study is a gender specific component, to ensure that the strategies developed and recommended are informed by a comprehensive gender analysisi, and further integrate gender considerations into national ICT policyi, planning and implementation.
 
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