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While there is recognition of the potential of ICT as a tool for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women, a “gender divide” has also been identified, reflected in the lower numbers of women accessing and using ICT compared with men.

This report looks at the status of internet in Iran with a primary focus on the issue of filtration. It analyses the current situation of the Internet in Iran, the statutes restricting the freedom of expression including both the public media laws and the laws specific to the Internet, censorship and the methods thereof and the rapid growth of blogging in Iran and the large-scale censorship affecting the weblogs.

In an ambitious worldwide 2004-05 research initiative called "The World at Work," Patricia Shafer and her colleague Dr. Barbara Trautlein discovered more similarity than difference across geography, industry and gender based on interviews with multinational managers on five continents and spanning the organisational Value Chain.

This book, a UNESCO publication for the World Summit on Information Society, proposes the full integration of gender issues into technology analyses, policy development and programme design.

This book looks at the emerging relationships between sustainable development and the information society. The potential of information and communications technology to contribute to a more sustainable world is limitless. The challenge is to bring the policy communities together and help them understand the links. In this volume, some important challenges are outlined—and some important examples of success are highlighted. Edited by Terri Willard and Maja Andjelkovic, this book contains research findings by seven young researchers from six countries highlighting their country specific experiences and situations on interlinkages between Information Society and Sustainable Development.

This presentation is culled from a research project on the use of ICTs by women's organisations in Asia and the Pacific. Initiated by the Asian Women's Resource Exchange and coordinated by three organisations, namely Isis International-Manila, the Association for Progressive Communication-Women's Networking Support Programme, and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the research extended across 24 countries of the Asia Pacific region.

This document outlines the findings a research report entitled "An Exploratory Study on the Use of Information and Communication Technologies by Women's Organisations: The Asia Study".
The research, a joint project of Isis, the Asian Women's Resource Exchange (AWORC) and UNESCAP, reveals how women's organisations in seven countries-India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Mongolia, the Philippines, and the Republic of Korea are using the new information and communication tools.

This report represents a joint effort by UNDP and UNIFEM to draw attention to the less known, yet equally powerful, potential of ICTs as a vehicle for advancing gender equality. The report however emphasizes that this potential cannot be realized if ICT policies and tools are gender blind and if ICT as a growing sector in our modern world remains pervasively male dominated.

This reference manual provides guidelines for mainstreaming gender into the
functions of Ministries of Information and Communication. Its main objective is to assist governments in advancing gender equality in their countries, especially through the establishment and operation of a Gender Management System as a means of mainstreaming gender across all government policies, plans, programmes and projects. It presents an extensive list of recommendations for action, grouped under a series of strategic objectives. It includes a questionnaire for conducting a gender impact analysis as well as various tools designed to assist ministry personnel in putting gender on the agenda of their activities: conducting gender impact analysis, collecting data
on problems faced by women and men in the sector, using gender-sensitive language, and creating linkages with women’s media networks at regional and global levels.

The Philippine Constitution sets the framework of the State's responsibility to make the country ready to employ the potentials of ICT. It also unequivocally champions the equality between men and women in all areas of human activity. This paper seeks to recommend a policy framework that will address the goal of mobilising ICT to advance gender equality and women's empowerment, presenting ICT as a potential tool to bridge the gender gap when it comes to freedom of expression, provide women access to opportunities for income and employment, and to open up spaces and networks where women can organize themselves, and participate and launch actions towards nation-building.

This proposal, to develop a training curriculum on gender perspectives in
telecommunications policy, is one of many tasks defined by the ITU-TFGI to increase gender-awareness at the regulatory and policy environment. Most importantly, it provides an important opportunity for regulators and policy makers to participate in specialized training that will assist them to effectively integrate gender perspectives in telecommunications policy.

Synthesis report on 20 ICT case studies from organisations in South Asia, Southern Africa and Central America. Their activities vary from offering wireless communication equipment to tribal nomads and teaching slum children how to use a computer, to training NGOs how to build a website and online broadcasting of radio programmes.

This article describes a number of research projects that seek to support Girls Inc, an initiative that explores the changing needs of girls through research-based programmes and public education efforts that empower girls to understand, value, and assert their rights.