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Pakistan: Count me IN!! Something I can’t unthink now...

Nighat Dad
Nighat Dad on 21 June, 2011 - 15:10
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Nighat Dad is the Pakistan's partner for the APC's MDG3: Take Back the Tech! project, and heavily engaged in public policy and research work related to ICTs in Pakistan. She is based in Lahore and works with Bytes for All Pakistan, the APC member.

Nighat Dad shares her experience from the Count me IN! Conference organized by CREA, an international, feminist, human rightsi organisation, in April 2011, in Kathmandu. The Conference brings annually together women who have not been counted in - sex workers, disabled, single, young, lesbian and HIV-positive women, and trans people from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangiladesh and Sri Lanka, to discuss violence against womeni and strategies of resistance. "I was bit amazed at the title of the conference, “Count me IN!” but when I looked into the agenda in detail I noticed that the conference had a very particular focus on the overlooked segments of society which we tend to ignore in our activism and feminist movements," introduces Nighat her post-conference reflection.

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Pakistan: Violence against Women and ICT

on 29 March, 2011 - 09:25
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Access to mobile technology is increasing rapidly in Pakistan, and women are also gaining access, albeit at a slower rate than men. Kyla Pasha examines how mobile technology is ripe for use in strategies of empowermenti, as long as access to technology is accompanied by training and orientation.

 
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Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES (P@SHA)

Website: http://www.pasha.org.pk

Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES (P@SHA) was initiated 15 years ago by a number of software houses in an attempt to create a functional trade association for the IT industry in Pakistan. P@SHA is a platform for promoting, protecting and developing the software industry in Pakistan, and has made consistent efforts to ensure that the right policyi frame works are employed for continued growth and development. P@SHA is a national country partner in the “MDG3i: Take Back The Tech!ii to end violence against womeni” project.

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Bytes for All (B4All)

Website: http://www.bytesforall.net

Bytes for All (B4All) is a networked space for citizens in South Asia. It experiments, highlights and organizes debate on the relevance of ICTi to development activities. They believe ICTs don't replace the need for good governancei or people's rights to equal opportunities, rather ICT can complement this process. B4All is a national country partner in the “MDG3i: Take Back The Tech!ii to end violence against womeni” project.

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OneWorld South Asia

Website: http://southasia.oneworld.net
The OneWorld network spans five continents and produces content in 11 different languages, published across its international site, regional editions, and thematic channels on human rightsi and sustainable development. OneWorld South Asia produces content from the South to widen the participation of the world's poorest and most marginalised peoples in the global debate.
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IT For Change

Website: http://www.itforchange.net/
TfC (IT For Change) is a non-profit organisation located in India that envisions a society capable of, and comfortable with, innovative and effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTi) as a tool, to further goals of progressive social change. They are a network of development professionals committed to engage with the on-going technology and development discourse by reviewing, interpreting and critiquing existing approaches and conceptualizing alternatives to blend technological possibilities with development realities in the South.
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Mahiti

Website: http://www.mahiti.org/
MAHITI provides Information and Communication Technologyi services to the civil sector specialising in multi-platform, multi-lingual web, intranet, multimedia and kiosk applications.
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Cambodia, Malaysia, Pakistan and the Philippines: Cross-country Study on Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies

Sonia Randhawa
Sonia Randhawa on 16 February, 2010
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Sonia Randhawa, genderIT.orgi writer and editor, compares the findings of four national reports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Pakistan and the Philippines undertaken by the APC WNSP as part of the project “Strengthening women’s strategic usei of ICTs to combat violence against womeni and girls”.
 
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Effects of Education and ICT Use on Gender Relations in Bhutan

Chaitali Sinha
Chaitali Sinha on 13 October, 2009
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education, bhutan, ict, case study, urban, rural
This article examines the relationships that exist between gendered access to education and the ways in which mobile phones, fixed phones, and the Interneti are perceived and used in a rural and an urban Bhutanese community. The findings, organized by levels of literacy, reveal similar patterns in ICTi perceptions and use across the two communities.
 
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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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