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Gender Publications and Resources |
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External resources:
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ITU Gender Training Resources, Participant’s
Manual, ITU Module #5: Tariffs (Pricing Policy), Workshop on
Sustainability in Telecommunication through Gender & Social Equality
designed for ITU. Babb, Annalee C. and Omowale T. Elson. October
2003. Barbados: acb Knowledge Consultants Inc. and Washington:
Elson Consulting Group.
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Women in the Cisco Middle East Networking
Academy Program. Cisco. March 2007.
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Input to the Secretary-General’s Report on the
System-Wide Follow-up to WSIS by the Gender Advisory Board.
Commission on Science and Technology for Development, Tenth Session,
21-25 May 2007.
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“Cyber Summit and Women: Incorporating Gender
into Information and Communication Technology UN Policies”. Cooks,
Leda & Kirsten Isgro. 2005.
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Global Knowledge Partnership. November 2003.
Youth, Poverty, Gender: ICT for Development Success Stories.
Knowledge for Development Series. Kuala Lumpur: Global Knowledge
Partnership Secretariat.
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Global Knowledge Partnership. 2003.
Declaration and Recommendations, Forum on ICT and Gender: Optimizing
Opportunities, 23 August 2003, Malaysia
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“Waking up to the need for women in science and
technology”. Gold, Andrew. October 2003. Schlumberger CEO
keynote speech at Women in Industrial Research – Speeding Up Changes in
Europe, Berlin, October 10-11, 2003.
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“Gender issues in ICT statistics and indicators,
with particular emphasis on developing countries”. Hafkins, Nancy.
December 2003. Keynote address at Joint UNECE/UNCTAD/UIS/ITU/ OECD/
EUROSTAT Statistical Workshop: Monitoring the Information Society: Data,
Measurement and Methods, Geneva, 8-9 December 2003
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Gender, Information Technology and Developing
Countries: An Analytical Study. Hafkin, Nancy and Nancy Taggart.
2001. Washington: Academy for Educational Development.
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“The Leaky Pipeline: Gender Barriers in Science,
Engineering and Technology”. Huyer, Sophia. 2002. Presentation
at the World Bank Seminar Series on Gender and the Digital Divide,
Washington, February 5, 2002.
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Gender Relations in Software Work in Vietnam,
Draft Ph.D. dissertation. Lobb, Le Anh Pham. 2006. Australian
National University.
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“Gender, Information Technology, and Developing
Countries: An AED Study that Explores Obstacles and Opportunities for
Women Related to IT”. McGuire, Mary.2001. Profiles in
Development, TechKnowLogia, November/December 2001.
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Gender and Indicators: Overview Report.
Moser, Annalise. July 2007. Brighton: Institute of Development
Studies/BRIDGE.
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“Gender Mainstreaming since Beijing: a Review of
Success and Limitations in International Institutions”. Moser, C.
and Moser, A. 2005 , Gender and Development, 13.2, London: Routledge.
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“Issues, policies and outcomes: Are ICT policies
addressing gender equality?”. Ramilo, Garcia and Pi
Villanueva. 2001. Agenda item 4, UNESCAP Expert Group
Meeting to Review ICT Policy from a Gender Perspective, Bangkok, 18-19
December 2001
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Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa.
Rathgeber, Eva. & Edith Ofwona Adera (eds). 2000. Ottawa:
International Development Research Centre.
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Women, Men, and ICTs in Africa: Why Gender Is An
Issue. Rathgeber, Eva. 2000. Ottawa: International Development
Research Centre.
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“Collaborative Research Project on Gender and
ICTs”. UN Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality. 2006.
INSTRAW Fact Sheet prepared for WSIS, Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005.
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“Gender and ICT “. UN Inter-Agency Network
on Women and Gender Equality. 2006. FAO Fact Sheet prepared for WSIS,
Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005.
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“Participation and access of women to the media
and ICTs, and their impact on and use as an instrument for the
advancement and empowerment of women”. UN Inter-Agency Network on
Women and Gender Equality. 2006. Division for the Advancement of Women,
Department of Economic and Social Affairs Fact Sheet prepared for WSIS,
Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005.
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ICT and Gender Equality. UN Inter-Agency
Network on Women and Gender Equality. 2006. World Bank Fact Sheet
prepared for WSIS, Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005.
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Bridging the Gender Digital Divide: A Report on
Gender and ICT in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of
Independent States. UNIFEM Central and Eastern Europe Office & UNDP
Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
2004.
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A presentation to OECD and the World Bank on ICT
and Gender: Evidence from OECD and Non-OECD Countries.
Van Welsum, Desirée & Pierre &
Montagnier. 2007. Paris, 24 January 2007.
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Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank
Action Plan (Fiscal Years 2007-10). The World Bank. September 2006.
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Climate change and
Environment
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Unbounded
Possibilities: Observations on Sustaining Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) in Africa, Ian Douglas Howard,
2008.
http://www.apc.org/en/system/files/SustainingRuralICTs_0.pdf |
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Empowering
fisher women through ICT in reef conservation and management – a
case study from Tuticorin coast of the Gulf of Mannar,
Southeastern India, J. Patterson, E.Linden, C. Bierbrier, D.
Wilhelmsson, I. Lofgren, D. Obura and J.K.P. Edward, 2008
http://www.nova.edu/ncri/11icrs/proceedings/files/m23-15.pdf
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The World
Business Council on Sustainable Development
www.wbcsd.org |
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Community ICT
Centres
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Guidebook on
Developing Community E-Centres in Rural Areas: Based on the
Malaysian Experience, UNESCAP, 2006
http://www.unescap.org/pdd/prs/ProjectActivities/Ongoing/ICT/guidebook.pdf
or :
http://www.ictregulationtoolkit.org/en/Publication.3372.html
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Telecottage
Handbook: How to establish and run a successful telecentre
A practical guide for community development practitioners on
strategies for ICT-enabled community empowerment, Telehaz and
UNDP, 2006
http://europeandcis.undp.org/home/show/1EAEB3D3-F203-1EE9-BD0C279330992AC8
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http://www.is-watch.net/node/758 |
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Training
telecentre managers, staff and users, Bill Murray, Cathy Murray
and Simon Brooks, 2000
http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/chapter%2018.pdf
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Toolkit for
setting up Rural Knowledge Centres (RKC), M S Swaminathan
Research Foundation, 2005
http://www.mssrf.org/iec/pubfile/toolkit.pdf
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Sustainable
Telecenters: Public policy for the Private Sector, The World
Bank Group Private Sector and Infrastructure Network, 2003
http://rru.worldbank.org/Documents/PublicPolicyJournal/251Welle-121302.pdf |
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Philippine Commission on ICT unveils online courses for
telecentre managers, Telecenter.org, 2010
http://www.telecentre.org/profiles/blogs/philippine-commission-on-ict-1
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Socio-Economic Impacts of Rural Telecenters in Iran, Ali A.
Jalali, 2006
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/AliJalali.pdf |
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Uganda
School-Based Telecenters: An Approach to Rural Access to ICTs,
Meddie Mayanja, 2002
http://www.wougnet.org/Events/IARW/SchoolBasedTelecenter_MMayanja.pdf
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http://www.techknowlogia.org/TKL_active_pages2/CurrentArticles/main.asp?FileType=PDF&ArticleID=415 |
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Telecenters
around the World: Issues to be Considered and Lessons Learned,
Scott McConnell, ICT Development Group, 2001
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/file_download.php/053c2bb713f94903fc72a2a910a4e495Telecentres+around+the+world.pdf |
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Country
experiences (to organize by ITU regions)
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Africa
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Women
in the Democratic republic of Congo: Confidence and a
competitive edge though ICTs, by Gender, agriculture and
Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS),
2010
http://genardis.apcwomen.org/en/node/135
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Globalization, ICT and the Economic Empowerment of Women
in Nigeria, Olaoye Ismail Kayode, in Globalization,
Athabasca University, 2009
http://globalization.icaap.org/content/v8.1/Kayode.pdf
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Do
women’s access to ICTs lead to empowerment? Looking at
the CEEWA ICT project in rural Uganda, Patricia Litho,
on genderIT.org, 2007
http://www.genderit.org/content/do-women%E2%80%99s-access-icts-lead-empowerment-looking-ceewa-ict-project-rural-uganda |
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Uganda School-Based Telecenters: An Approach to Rural
Access to ICTs, Meddie Mayanja, TechKnowLogia, 2002
http://www.techknowlogia.org/TKL_active_pages2/CurrentArticles/main.asp?FileType=PDF&ArticleID=415 |
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The
Ghana ICT for Accelerated Development ICT4AD, A policy
statement for the realization of the vision to transform
Ghana into an information – rich knowledge – based
society and economy through the development, deployment
and exploitation of ICTs within the Economy and Society,
Republic of Ghana, 2003
http://www.ict.gov.gh/pdf/Ghana%20ICT4AD%20Policy.pdf |
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School-Net Uganda - Inspiring Science for Girls Using
ICT in Uganda
http://schoolnetuganda.sc.ug/ |
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The
Women’s Technology Empowerment Center (W.TEC) – Nigeria
http://www.w-teconline.org/ |
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Americas
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Arab
States
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Asia and
the Pacific
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Gender-based Issues and Trends in ICT Applications in
Education in Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO
http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ict/Metasurvey/2Regional29.pdf
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ICTs
and women’s empowerment: some case studies from India,
Suman Jain, 2007
http://www.ifuw.org/seminars/2007/jain.pdf
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Socio- Economic Impacts of Rural Telecenters in Iran,
Ali A. Jalali, 2006
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/AliJalali.pdf |
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Socio- Economic Empowerment of Women and IT: The
Practices & Lessons from the Provincial Government,
Republic of Korea, Jung Ah Cho and huh Jung Eun, 2006
http://wgc.womensglobalconnection.org/conf06proceedings/Cho,%20Ah.--Socio%20economic%20Empowerment.pdf
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MobileTelecenters Philippines – etrike, 2009
http://www.mobiletelecenters.com |
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Shahkooh’s Women Organization, Shahkooh is the First
Internet Village in Iran, 2002
http://www.shahkooh.com/zan_organization/women.html#education |
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Guidebook on Developing Community E-Centres in Rural
Areas: Based on the Malaysian Experience, UNESCAP, 2006
http://www.unescap.org/pdd/prs/ProjectActivities/Ongoing/ICT/guidebook.pdf |
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‘Supporting Gender and ICTs: Opportunities for Women in
Bangladesh’, Greater Access to Trade Expansion Project,
US Agency for International Development, USAID (2005),
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/unpan038249.pdf |
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Rural
Knowledge Centres in India
http://www.mssrf.org/ |
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Datamation Gender Resource Centre, India
http://www.datamationindia.com/index.php |
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Thai
Telecentre Movement
http://www.telecentremagazine.net/articles/article-details.asp?articleid=294&typ=Country%20Focus |
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Empowering fisher women through ICT in reef conservation
and management – a case study from Tuticorin coast of
the Gulf of Mannar, Southeastern India, J. Patterson,
E.Linden, C. Bierbrier, D. Wilhelmsson, I. Lofgren, D.
Obura and J.K.P.
Edward, 2008
http://www.nova.edu/ncri/11icrs/proceedings/files/m23-15.pdf
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Europe &
CIS
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Gender equality
and ICTs
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Gender evaluation
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Governance
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Health
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ICTs for business
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ICT skills
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ICTs for women’s
literacy
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ICT and
literacy, UNESCO
http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/features/ict-and-literacy
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Literacy
Initiative for Empowerment: LIFE 2006-2015, UNESCO
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001529/152921e.pdf |
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ICT and
Literacy: Who benefits?
Experience from Zambia and India
http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/ICT_26Literacy.pdf
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http://www.col.org/resources/publications/consultancies/Pages/2004-09-ICT.aspx
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The Tata
Computer-based Functional Literacy Program
http://www.tataliteracy.com/ |
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ICT for
Illiteracy Eradication (ICT4IE) Egypt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avtrTyZ-_HE
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Lina Zalat:
Effective Practices for Engendering the Digital Divide, Eqypt
ICT4D Journal 2009
http://www.i4donline.net/articles/current-article.asp?Title=Effective-Practicesfor-Engendering-the-Digital-Divide,-Egypt&articleid=2322&typ=Features |
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World
Education Report (2000)
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001211/121117E.pdf |
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Mother
Tongue-based Teaching and Education for Girls, UNESCO Bangkok
(2005),
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001420/142079e.pdf
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‘Using ICT to
Develop Literacy’: Bangkok, UNESCO (2006),
http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ict/ebooks/Literacy/Using_ICT_to_Develop_Literacy.pdf |
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‘Mother
Tongue-based Literacy Programmes: Case Studies of Good Practice
in Asia’, UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education
Bangkok (2007),
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001517/151793e.pdf |
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‘Literacy
Initiative for Empowerment' Institute for Lifelong learning
(2006-2015), Vision and Strategy Paper 3rd ed. UNESCO (2007),
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001529/152921e.pdf
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Numeracy in
REFLECT, PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988–2001
http://www.planotes.org/documents/plan_03225.PDF
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Women’s
literacy and Information and communication technologies: lessons
that experience has taught us
http://www.cemca.org/cemca_womens_literacy.pdf |
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Regulation and
universal access for women
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Security, Crisis
and Prevention
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Women & Mobile: A
Global Opportunity
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Women’s
empowerment and development
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“Because I am
a Girl: The state of the world’s girls 2010” Digital and Urban
Frontiers: Girls in a Changing Landscape
http://plan-international.org/girls/static/docs/BIAAG_2010_EN2.pdf
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“Because I am
a Girl: The state of the world’s girls 2009”
Girls in the Global Economy: Adding It All Up
http://plan-international.org/files/global/publications/campaigns/BIAAG%202009.pdf
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Information
and Communication Technologies for Women’s Socio-economic
empowerment, World Bank,
https://www.businessgrowthinitiative.org/KeyPracticeAreas/Documents/ICT%20for%20Women's%20Empowerment.pdf
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Information
and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an
instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/ict2002/reports/EGMFinalReport.pdf |
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Science and
technology for development: the new paradigm of ICT (UNCTAD)
http://unctad.org/en/docs/sdteecb20071_en.pdf |
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Gender
equality and empowerment of women through ICT
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/public/w2000-09.05-ict-e.pdf
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Multinational
Development of Women in Technology
http://www.mdwit.org/ |
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AFRICAN
WOMEN AND ICTs : Investigating Technology, Gender and
Empowerment
http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/399-7 |
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Connecting
the first mile: investigating best practice for ICTs and
information sharing for development
http://practicalaction.org/docs/icts/connecting_the_first_mile_summary.pdf
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Socio-
Economic Empowerment of Women and IT: The Practices & Lessons
from the Provincial Government
http://wgc.womensglobalconnection.org/conf06proceedings/Cho,%20Ah.Socio%20economic%20Empowerment.pdf |
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Women &
Mobile: A Global Opportunity
A study on the mobile phone gender gap in low and middle-income
countries
http://www.cherieblairfoundation.org/uploads/pdf/women_and_mobile_a_global_opportunity.pdf
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International
Commission on Workforce Development
http://www.icwfd.org/
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ICTs and
women’s empowerment: some case studies from India
http://www.ifuw.org/seminars/2007/jain.pdf
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Socio-
Economic Impacts of Rural Telecenters in Iran
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/AliJalali.pdf
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Do women’s
access to ICTs lead to empowerment? Looking at the CEEWA ICT
project in rural Uganda
http://www.genderit.org/content/do-women%E2%80%99s-access-icts-lead-empowerment-looking-ceewa-ict-project-rural-uganda |
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Uganda
School-Based Telecenters: An Approach to Rural Access to ICTs
http://www.techknowlogia.org/TKL_active_pages2/CurrentArticles/main.asp?FileType=PDF&ArticleID=415 |
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‘The Ghana
ICT for Accelerated Development ICT4AD’, A policy statement for
the realization of the vision to transform Ghana into an
information – rich knowledge – based society and economy through
the development, deployment and exploitation of ICTs within the
Economy and Society, Republic of Ghana (2003),
http://www.ict.gov.gh/pdf/Ghana%20ICT4AD%20Policy.pdf |
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Shahkooh’s
Women Organization (2002), Shahkooh is the First Internet
Village in Iran
http://www.shahkooh.com/zan_organization/women.html#education |
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‘ICT for the
social empowerment of the rural poor’, Chapter VI in Sustainable
Social Development in a Period of Rapid Globalization:
Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Options, Social Policy and
Population Section, UNESCAP (2002),
http://www.unescap.org/esid/psis/publications/theme2002/SUSTN-C6.pdf |
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Guidebook on
Developing Community E-Centres in Rural Areas: Based on the
Malaysian Experience, UNESCAP (2006),
http://www.unescap.org/pdd/prs/ProjectActivities/Ongoing/ICT/guidebook.pdf |
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‘Supporting
Gender and ICTs: Opportunities for Women in Bangladesh’, Greater
Access to Trade Expansion Project, US Agency for International
Development, USAID (2005),
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/unpan038249.pdf |
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Women in
Business Program and WIN case examples (International Finance
Corporation and Women In Business)
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/sustainability.nsf/Content/WomeninBusiness_Projects
, http://www.ifc.org/gender |
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Women’s ICT
Based Enterprise for Development practical guidance handbooks,
DFID/IDPM’s
http://www.womenictenterprise.org/ ,
http://www.womenictenterprise.org/manworkshop.htm ,
http://www.womenictenterprise.org/ITforChange%20HandbookEnglish.pdf
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Cisco
Networking Academy program
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/index.html
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