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The report give an overview of the current state of research undertaken in the area of the information society . Five essential subjects were selected for more detailed exploration: gender equality, cultural and linguistic diversity, freedom of expression, people with disabilities, and universal access and infoethics .

Status of Research on the Information Society
The Plan of Action adopted in 2001 recognizes the potential of ICTs to contribute to gender equality and the empowerment of women.

UN ICT Task Force - Plan of Action
The purpose of the Toolkit is to promote the collection of gender disaggregated data in scientific and technological activities for national and international policy.

Toolkit on Gender Indicators in Engineering, Science and Technology
The brief explores a number of moments of articulation and contradiction within the WSIS process, including gender imbalance, the politics of the inside and the outside, the space between rhetoric and action, and the lack of media coverage of a media-focussed event.

WSIS: Articulating Information at the Summit
The space offers a platform for substantive reflection and debate on the WSIS process, outcomes, and purposes.

The World Summit in Reflection
The paper describes and assess the efforts to secure inclusion of gender issues at the World Summit on Information Society in Geneva.

Gender Issues at the World Summit on the Information Society
Media and Gender Monitor is a bi-annual publication from the WACC Women's Programme addressing a wide range of gender and communication issues.

Media and Gender Monitor
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2005 is a grassroots media monitoring, research and advocacy project which aims to promote the fair and balanced representation of women and men in news media worldwide.

The Global Media Monitoring Project 2005
Five case studies illustrate the different contexts facing gender and ICTs for development, including e-commerce in Bhutan, entrepreneurship by women workers in China, post-war communication using radio and ICTs in Sierra Leone, sustainable fisheries production in Ghana, and information exchange related to HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.

Gender and ICTs for development: A global source book

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