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Women, Gender & Media

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:19 | 8,868 views
When I was a trainer at a media and gender workshop in 2002, the only male participant there confessed, “Our organisation is not prioritising gender actually. We are more concerned about other issues – issues which are political”. This statement reveals much about the stand that most media institutions take on gender.

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Politicising ICTs in the Women's Rights Movement - Interview with Lydia Alpízar Durán

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:19 | 5,379 views
Interview with Lydia Alpízar Durán, Feminist Organizational Development Program Coordinator of AWID (Association of Women in Development) on her thoughts about the relationship between ICTs and movement building in women’s human rights, at the Beijing +10 process, 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, New York.

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Where is women´s “J” spot?

Posted Wed 2 Jun 2010 - 00:18 | 7,237 views
As the international community prepares to join the United Nation’s 49th Session of the Commission on the Status on Women (CSW), women media practitioners are asking: where is women’s “J” spot? Despite the fact that the latform for Action (PFA) contemplates Section “J” in Chapter 3, about Women and Media, the issue is hardly found in the provisional agenda for the evaluation process. The U.N.…

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Sex, Social Mores, and Keyword Filtering: Microsoft Bing in the "Arabian Countries"

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:38 | 6,945 views
Microsoft’s Bing tailors its search engine to serve different countries and regions and offers its services in 41 languages. It has a filtering system at the keyword level for users in several countries. Users in the Arab countries are prevented from conducting certain search queries in both English and Arabic.

The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) (a collaboration of the Citizen Lab at the…

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The Africa Women's Regional Shadow Report on Beijing +15

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:38 | 5,828 views
A regional analysis on the status of women 15 years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The report maps out the progress, gaps and challenges under each of the critical areas of concern in the West, Eastern and Southern sub-regions, with emphasis on the period since the last review in 2004 (Beijing +10). For example, the report argues ,that the ICTs have…

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Where is Women´s “J” Spot?

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:38 | 6,397 views
As the international community prepares to join the United Nation’s 49th Session of the Commission on the Status on Women (CSW), women media practitioners are asking: where is women’s “J” spot? Commonly known as “Beijing +10,” the role of the official UN session is to evaluate what governments have done to implement the Platform for Action (PFA) of the Fourth World Conference on Women 10 years…

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Radio, Convergence and Development in Africa: Gender as a Cross-Cutting Issue

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:38 | 5,228 views
The purpose of this paper is to argue for the consideration of gender issues in all research on radio, convergence and development in Africa. It is intended to guide the deliberations at our Butare roundtable (September 2009) discussion on a research agenda and to ensure that we put gender considerations front and centre as we design our research plans.

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Privacy, Openness, Online Advertising and Online Behavioral Targeting Advertising

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:38 | 4,511 views


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Effects of Education and ICT Use on Gender Relations in Bhutan

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:38 | 4,635 views
This article examines the relationships that exist between gendered access to education and the ways in which mobile phones, fixed phones, and the Internet are perceived and used in a rural and an urban Bhutanese community. The findings, organized by levels of literacy, reveal similar patterns in ICT perceptions and use across the two communities.

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Is Google Violating Women's Rights?

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:38 | 5,363 views
This article explores the potential impact of Google Inc.'s AdWords advertising policy update on access to critical information on women's sexual reproductive health.