Gender/Advocacy

Women Contesting the 'Information Society: From the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995) to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS 2003, 2005) and beyond
IT for Change
2005

This paper was presented at the Femme Globale (Berlin, 2005). It briefly traces the development of the information society from the Beijing Conference in 1995 to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2003 and 2005, and women’s situated roles in this development. The engagements at…

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IT for Change at World Summit on the Information Society - Phase I
IT for Change
2003
ITfC presented papers at two panels during the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) at Geneva, Switzerland (10 December 2003). The first paper, "Globalised media and ICT systems", presents a feminist framework on globalisation, as well as going on to examine instances of militarism in the…
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IT for Change's inputs to MAKAAM
IT for Change

In November 2015, IT for Change submitted a position paper on critical concerns for women farmers' rights in the digital age to MAKAAM's meeting to deepen its Charter of Demands for Women Farmers. This note discusses 2 aspects of this shift pertinent to women farmers:

'E-agriculture'…
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Reflections on Digital Technologies and the Internet A note to the Women's Major Group for the UN OWG on SDGs meeting – Dec 9th 2014
IT for Change

The role of the Internet and of digital technologies in structuring our lived reality is beyond doubt. As a core facet of contemporary society, the Internet is central today to the enjoyment of our rights and freedoms. ITU statistics point to how the Internet has developed unevenly throughout…

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