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Tipping the balance for local adopters of technology

Chat Garcia Ramilo
Chat Garcia Ramilo on 15 February, 2011 - 15:12 on 15 February, 2011 - 15:12
Chat is the manager of the APC Women's Programme and is a specialist in gender, women's rights and information and communication technology. She has been working with APC since 2000 and lives in the Philippines. She is an experienced manager, evaluator, resource person and speaker on gender and ICTs internationally. Chat sits on the board of organisations working in gender justice and in issues of migration and conflict situations.


“Providing individuals with access to information about science and technology is a matter of human rights, as well as human capital. In different ways, scientific and technological literacy constitute a cornerstone of our participatory democracies. Such knowledge empowers citizens to make informed decisions relating to the many implications that these advances have in national life, including the ethical dilemmas, which arise as we deploy new knowledge.

Gender, science and technology. This theme will be analysed, dissected and evaluated at the 55th session of the Commission on Status of Women. Governmenti delegates, non-government representatives and activists will troop to the United Nations headquarters in New York, braving the coldest winter in decades, to assess how women and girls are faring in education, training and employment in scientific and technological fields. To a large extent, this is a foregone conclusion. Science and technology continue to be incredibly gender-biased.

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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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APC WNSP, Alternative Law Forum, APC EROTICS Project on 10 September, 2010
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The Internet Governance Forum i(IGF) has been a challenging space for both women's rightsi advocates and for broader constituencies engaged in advocacyi for gender equalityi and sexuality related rights. In the fifth and final year of its mandate, women's rightsi are still being dwarfed as a critical issue to be debated in this arena, while sexuality issues, although present, are not seen as a matter of rights. In preparation for this year's IGF, this briefing document highlights key issues on interneti regulationi that are relevant for gender iequality and sexuality. It also brings to the debate findings from various research initiatives undertaken by APC and key partners, including a cross-country research initiative - EROTICS - that is being conducted in five countries: Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa and the United Stateis.

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Foundation for Media Alternatives

Website: http://www.fma.ph/
The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) is a non-governmenti organization based in the Philippines, formed in 1986. FMA seeks to enhance the popularisation and social marketing of development-oriented issues and campaigns through media-related interventions, social communication projects, and cultural work.
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Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme

Website: http://www.apdip.net/
The Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that aims to promote the development and application of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for poverty alleviation and sustainable human development in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Comunicación, Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en America Latina

Website: http://www.laneta.apc.org/cidhal/index.html
Organization created with the aim of contributing with solid institutions towards the gender equityi as a central axis to improve the quality of life through health services, education, communication and information, fostering the citizen participation and the respect for human rightsi.
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Agéncia Latinoamericana de Información

Website: http://www.alainet.org
The Latin American Information Agency -ALAI- is a communications organization, committed to the full respect of human rightsi, gender equalityi and people's participation in development and policyi making in Latin America. Its actions are part of the struggle for the democratization of communication, as a basic prerequisite for democratic society and social justice.
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Asian Women's Resource Exchange

Website: http://www.aworc.org/
The Asian Women's Resource Exchange (AWORC) is an Interneti-based women's information service and network in Asia. It is an initiative geared towards developing cooperative approaches and partnerships in increasing access and exploring applications of new information and communication technologies for women's empowermenti.
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WomensHub

Website: http://www.womenshub.net/
WomensHub is a Philippines-based organisation of women who undertakes initiatives to promote greater access to ICTi by communities struggling to assert their autonomy and empowermenti.
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Pacific Women's Bureau

Website: http://www.spc.int/women/
Pacific Women's Bureau is part of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). It provides technical and advisory services to the 22 island member countries of the SPC through national focal points for women and the SPC Pacific Conference for Women, held every three years.
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