ICT, GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT LINKS

I have been writing an essay on the effect of ICT on the empowerment or women. It is one of a series I am working on dealing with ICT and the Millennium Development Goals. I thought some of the links I found might be of interest.

Development Gateway Feature and Key Issue

Empowering Women Through ICT

ICT and Gender Resources on the ICT4D page of the Development Gateway Portal

Key papers

Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

Engendering Development

Engendering ICTs Study

WSIS Gender Caucus paper

Synthesis Paper from the INSTRAW Virtual Seminar Series on Gender and ICTs

Useful websites:

Gender and the Digital Divide Series World Bank

ELDIS: ICT and Gender Page

UNIFEM (which has added “Information and Communications Technologies” as one of its emerging areas of work)

Other Useful Papers:

Exploring The Gender Impact of The World Links Program

Time for Equality at Work (Especially part 2)

The information technology revolution: Widening or bridging gender gaps?

Gender, ICTs and Agriculture

The Southern African Gender And Media Baseline Study

The Price of 'Man' and 'Woman': A Hedonic Pricing Model of Avatar Attributes in a Synthethic World

Other:

Information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women (online discussion)

Women in development Statistics