[UgaBYTES] Gender and ICTs

[Jayalakshmi Chittoor]

Dear all,

There are four issues of i4d magazine (www.i4donline.net) that has focused
on ICT for Development and Gender issues. It would be interesting for the
readers of this thread to take stock of the kind of issues besides access
question that is relevant to Gender and ICTs. There are other important
issues relating to social aspects of technology, design issues, budgets for
providing the kind of support needed to enable a conducive environment and
creating opportunities for affirmative action.

Regards,

Jaya

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Mwathi Francis <mfrancis at ugabytes.org>wrote:

> The development of information and communications technologies (ICTs)
> offers
> a great number of new opportunities for men and women. However, unless such
> possibilities are backed by the deliberate formulation of policies that may
> ensure equal gender participation, responsibilities, education and training
> in ICTs, as well as by family support policies at the workplaces where the
> information economy is deployed, old gender biases will persist.
>
> The number of Internet users throughout the world towards the end of 2002
> was 591 million, according to the 2003 Report on E-business and Development
> at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
>
> Likewise, the Internet is no longer a scene where only men are prominent,
> as
> currently the number of women users is constantly growing, having reached
> about 45% of world totals, and 50% in the industrialised countries.
>
> Despite such advances, ICTs are not neutral to gender. Inequality between
> men and women subsists in that respect and is significantly high in the
> less
> developed countries  which should be taken into account by all analyses of
> development possibilities. Such differences are barriers that widen the
> already existing gap.
> Read On <http://ugabytes.org/nod/?q=node/669>
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