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13.06.2006 Addressing sexual and reproductive health is key to achieving the
Millennium Development Goals, reveals a new report today released by the UN Millennium Project at the Global Health Council’s 33rd Annual International Conference on Global Health.

09.06.2006 The Electronic Library, available as a CD-ROM, is based on UNIFEM’s Gender and HIV/AIDS web portal. It includes resources produced by a variety of organizations working on HIV/AIDS.

07.06.2006 Eva Rathgeber writes about the necessity of recognising women and men having different patterns of using computers and internet and the importance of national governments employing gender analysis when launching eGovernment initiatives.

06.06.2006 "Supporting Women's ICT-Based Enterprises - A Handbook for Agencies in Development" is designed to help anyone working to support women's ICT-based enterprises; specifically micro- and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries.

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18.04.2006 What can ICT bring for the inhabitants of 600,000 Indian villages? How India is empowering the poor and marginalised citizens to participate in the emerging knowledge society? How will India provide voice to her millions of citizens? ‘Taking ICT to every Indian village: Opportunities and challenges”, attempts at answering such questions and exploring the complex interactions between ICT and society. more...

12.04.2006 Sixty indigenous Latin American women participants of an online discussion on Indigenous Women and ICTs are of the opinion that ICTs open possibilities for new projects, sharing of ideas and experiences as well as making suggestions and proposals so that their voice is heard. They viewed accessibility, connectivity, high costs, inappropriate training and socio-cultural and linguistic barriers as the major impediments in their access to new technologies.

23.03.2006 In the ICT arena women they still remain inside that outer circle of ICT users where a male-dominated society assigns specific limits beyond which women are not able to tread. Women, like other subordinate groups in the society are thought to be “muted”.

23.02.2006 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.

20.02.2006 This paper essentially explores the gender dimensions of the Internet, with particular the focus on technology and networking aspects. It outlines advantages and benefits that the Internet offers for technology networking, and offers gendered suggestions to overcome current barriers and shortcomings.

08.02.2006 ICT tools for organic women farmers, provides a confluence of interest between women entrepreneurs who need capacity building both in their farming businesses and in their computer skills.

30.12.2005 To ensure women's active participation in the knowledge society, it is essential that they are cosulted and such strategies devised that would integrate them fully into ICT projects and the IT sector.

30.12.2005 In her exclusive article for the Digital Opportunity Channel , Nidhi Tandon writes, “women’s business networks are an important step to strengthening of women’s negotiating positions and advocacy for common strategic goals”. She emphasises the importance of networked intelligence in changing global scenario especially for women entrepreneurs in today's globalised economy.

29.12.2005 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.

14.11.2005 Through this article the author tries to outline and highlight the complex relationship between the multinational media corporations and the global powers and how the media has been repeatedly used as a means to seizing and sustaining power by conquering the hearts and minds of the people.

02.11.2005 The women of Kalomo district, some 400 kilometres South of Lusaka are influencing and transforming the face of the district, socially and economically with the help of new technologies. These women, under the Kalomo Bwacha Women ICT club, are using the only and first resource centre of women in the district to improve other women’s money livelihoods by using the internet.

20.10.2005 It seems unlikely that whoever coined the term 'information superhighway' anticipated that the traffic on the internet would be in people, as well as information. How, and how much, the internet and other ICTs are implicated in trafficking is the subject of this issue paper.

14.10.2005 Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly used by developing countries in strategies that see the new technology as having the potential to deliver economic growth, employment, skills generation and empowerment. There is growing agreement, however, that the impact of ICTs in developing countries is not gender neutral, necessitating an engendered approach to ICT-based projects. This paper argues that ICTs as a form of new technology are socially deterministic, with varied implications for women in terms of employment and empowerment dependent on the context within which the ICTs are utilised.

14.10.2005 The declining child sex ratio as reflected in the 2001 census is a pointer to the fact that in India a girl child is denied even the basic right to survival. The need of the hour is not only to change the environment, the mindset, and the other socio-cultural factors responsible for this decline, but also to question the underlying concepts behind the development of the girl child. The ICTs can play a crucial role in digitising the process of registration of births, deaths and pregnancies at the grassroots level, help in promoting antenatal check ups, promoting institutional deliveries, and setting up of follow up committees to monitor the system effectively.

29.09.2005 This document is intended to describe the funding strategies of the Information Society (IS) that are currently under discussion at the preliminary meetings of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) – Second Phase, which will be held in November 2005 and, from a gender perspective, to tie them into the commitments undertaken through the Goals of the Millennium, the Beijing Action Platform and Funding for Development, among others.This paper has been prepared for the Regional Workshop titled "From Fringe to Center: Gender Equity in Building the Information Society”, called upon by the Steering Committee of WSIS Gender Caucus with the objective of ensuring gender equity and women’s rights integrated into WSIS and its subsequent processes”.