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*GENDER CENTRED: A GenderIT.org thematic bulletin*
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*Cybercrime legislations and gender*
I. SMALL THOUGHTS AROUND…Cybercrime legislations and gender
II. NEW ARTICLES
II. FEATURED RESOURCES
IV. JARGON
V. WHO'S WHO
VI. DID YOU KNOW…
Posted 19 March 2008
GenderIT team in partnership with the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) are surfacing the links between ICT policy and financing for women’s empowerment and gender equality.
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*GENDER CENTRED: A GenderIT.org thematic bulletin*
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*Financing for Gender & ICT*
Posted 18 December 2007
In this edition GenderIT.org writers analyze some of the existing challenges and experiences about the problematic issue of women´s health and its interconnection with ICT policies in Uruguay, West Africa, Uganda and assess integration of ICTs into health initiatives around the world.
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Posted 16 July 2007
For this issue, we focused on national and regional policies on the physical - i.e. infrastructure - layer.However, this proved challenging, as little information that specifically examines this issue from feminist perspectives is currently available. Further, many other elements needed to be addressed before the gender dimensions of infrastructure became evident.
Posted 26 March 2007
The GenderIT.org pool of writers illuminates some of the tensions faced at the IGF and in countries in Asia (Philippines, India, Pakistan) and Latin America (Peru, Uruguay) when dealing with content regulation and censorship from gender perspectives.
Posted 19 December 2006
This edition features articles and analyses from new writers in different regions. Focussing on national policies, the articles assess the current political landscape and will to integrate gender into national ICT development efforts. New resources are collated around this theme, focussing on contexts and priorities in diverse locations.
Posted 3 October 2006
This edition examines how educational policies approach gender and ICTs, as well as the gendered dimensions of ICT education and training.
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GENDER CENTRED: A GenderIT.org thematic bulletin
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EDUCATION
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*Gender Peripheries of Internet Governance Forum, Athens*
APC WNSP - GenderIT.org, 30 October 2006 - 2 November 2006
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GenderIT.org team is covering the first meeting of the Internet
Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens, stated by the UN and many ICT policy
advocates as “one of the most significant outcomes of the World Summit
on Information Society”.
Posted 25 July 2006
Events that accompanied the production of this edition demonstrated, more than ever, that space to freely communicate, access information, and engage in democratic processes is narrowing in some countries. In the context of these events, two interviewees from Iran and Egypt had to cancel the interviews because of emergencies in their countries. This edition not only reflects on gender and freedom of expression and information, but also calls for a renewed commitment to these fundamental rights.
Posted 1 May 2006
GenderIT.org writers explores the current and changing of the Gender and ICT policy making environment; with articles and interviews of women advocates pioneering in this field. In this edition, Mavic Cabrera-Balleza from the International Women's Tribune Centre also shares her reflections on challenges and recommendations on the strategic use of ICTs in addressing the issue of women in peacebuilding.
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