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The book outlines issues and processes involved in ICT policymaking and advocacy. It looks at specific issues in policy and regulation including gender and ICTs.

ICT policy: a beginner’s handbook
The Gender and ICTs unit provides an overview of critical gender and ICT issues, their relevance for ICT policy formulation, programme design and implementation, as well as the monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment of ICT initiatives.

ICT Policy for Civil Society: Training Curriculum
The guidebook provides a background on the WSIS and outlines the case for gender equality in the information society.

The World Summit on the Information Society: Creating Your Own National Gender...
E-discussion on the impact of ICT on gender relations and the ways ICT can be used to overcome gender inequalities. sharing ideas, opinions, concerns, and lessons learned with development practitioners, policy makers, and academics.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Gender Equality
The Powerpoint presentation details the various stages of the WSIS process.

Putting gender on the agenda of the World Summit on the Information Society (...
The Declaration was presented as an alternative to the official Declaration at the WSIS in Geneva.

Alternative Civil Society Declaration: Shaping Information Societies for Human...
The paper highlights specific measures that could be incorporated into ICT policy in developing countries to ensure gender equality.

Gender Issues in ICT policy in developing countries: an overview
The paper emphasises the importance of gender disaggregated statistics and indicators in informing national and global ICT policies.

Some thoughts on gender and telecommunications/ICT statistics and indicators
The document is a synthesis of the results of the Virtual Seminar Series on gender and ICT, and online forum for exchange of research-based knowledge and information.

Overcoming the gender digital divide: understanding ICTs and their potential...

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