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Women and Philippine Media: At the Fringes of Freedom

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:20 | 13,254 views
Where are women located in the struggle for freedoms to express, create and disseminate information through ICTs as media? Censorship comes in multiple forms in the Philippines. The country has one of the highest counts of media practitioners who are killed in the course of their work in the region. Yet, it retains a conflicting standing as one of the open media landscape in South East Asia.…

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National Gender and ICT Policies in Uruguay: A Call To Action

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:20 | 6,420 views
In Uruguay, the National Women’s Institute (INAMU) led a consultation process with a range of social actors to develop the First National Plan for Equality of Opportunities and Rights (PPNIOD), planned for the period from 2007 to 2011. One of the chapters of the Plan, entitled “Innovative Uruguay”, includes the strategic aim of an “increase in women’s access to information and communication…

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In search of Gender inclusive ICTs in Pakistan: But Where?

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:20 | 5,162 views
This article briefly looks at the need to integrate gender into gender mainstreaming efforts by the Pakistan government in ICT policy implementation. In particular, it explores the potential of the private sector as a significant initiator of this process, citing Responsible Business Initiative as an noteworthy example.

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Doing IT on Paper

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:20 | 5,901 views
This article examines the discrepancy between Pakistan's national IT policy 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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Jac sm Kee is the Women's Rights Programme Manager with the Association for Progressive Communica

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Gender and ICT Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Re-thinking ICT development through Gender

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:20 | 5,983 views
This article examines the current ICTs situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, paying particular attention to the development of a National ICT Policy Strategy, and the responses towards the need to integrate gender concerns by both the women's national machinery and civil society organisations.

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Tools discussed: Gender and ICTs in education and communication

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:20 | 8,977 views
More than 40 educators debated the importance of ICTs in edu-communication processes at a recent workshop held in Sao Paulo.The benefits of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) tools and platforms were analysed, including their democratising potential and gendered environment. The workshop was conducted through a Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) tool that, like its namesake,…

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Wireless networks: Neither the territory of men nor women

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:20 | 8,413 views
Cris Ojeda, a network technician and Nodo Tau collaborator in Argentina, recounts her experience at a wireless roaming nework training project carried out in Paraguay, during which she was the sole female participant.
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Jac sm Kee is the Women's Rights Programme Manager with the Association for Progressive Communica

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Robots, Software and Pedagogy: How Gender Matters in Education

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:19 | 6,812 views
Prof. Dr. Heidi Schelhowe is a professor for “Digital Media in Education” at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bremen. Interaction and interactivity are main concepts in her research and teaching, plus the constant efforts to create interesting and provocative gender aware knowledge environments. Jac sm Kee speaks with this seminal thinker, educator and technologist about…

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GenARDIS: supporting the use of ICTs by women farmers for social change

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:19 | 6,404 views
The GenARDIS grants programme was developed in recognition of the ICT-related constraints and challenges faced by rural women in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The grants winners took part in a knowledge sharing workshop on gender, agriculture and rural development in the information society in Entebbe, Uganda from July 3 to 8. The following is a report by Sylvie Niombo - Deputy…
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Mobile telephony's promise of bridging the digital divide

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:19 | 6,550 views
The London Offices of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) recently received an unprecedented appeal for increased food aid. What was different about this appeal was the manner in which it was sent. According to a United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights report, a Somali refugee in Northern Kenya's Dagahaley refugee camp sent a text message by mobile phone to the WFP offices…