Economic Empowerment
Blogs for African Women Project Gets Nigerian Women Hooked on Technology
APC Africa Women Member Wins Harambee Prize
Blogs for African Women (BAWo) has taken hold of the Nigerian blogging spirit to strengthen women’s activism. Oreoluwa Somolu, BAWo’s founder, sees blogging as a way to get women “hooked on technology”, and gain important skills for community and NGO leadership at the same time. Networking for Success, BAWo’s second initiative getting women into the blogosphere, has just been awarded an Harambee Small Grant to increase BAWo’s collaboration capacity.
Paddling in Circles While the Waters Rise: Gender Issues in ICTs and Poverty Reduction
Can ICTs help reduce poverty? After so many decades of development theory and practices, why is poverty on the rise?
TIC e igualdad de las mujeres: APC y la Metodología de evaluación de género (GEM)
GEM es una metodología de evaluación que integra el análisis de género a la evaluación de iniciativas que usan las TIC para el cambio social. Se trata de una herramienta de evaluación para determinar si las TIC realmente están mejorando o si están empeorando la vida de las mujeres y las relaciones de género, así como para promover un cambio efectivo a nivel individual, institucional, comunitario y social en general.
GEM se desarrolló desde las bases y ha implicado la colaboración de cientos de organizaciones comunitarias y de individuos desde que fue creada en 2002. La red creada incluye a la gente que desarrolló GEM, que capacita en el uso de GEM, que está adaptando la herramienta (para incrementar su uso en proyectos rurales de TIC para el desarrollo, telecentros, localización de software y activismo en políticas de TIC) y que están ofreciendo ahora evaluaciones GEM como un servicio de consultoría.
Integrantes de la red de GEM comparten acerca de los cambios en su visión de género y de TIC gracias a su aplicación de GEM. Leer más
ICTs and women's equality: APC and the gender evaluation methodology (GEM)
GEM is an evaluation methodology that integrates a gender analysis into evaluations of initiatives that use ICTs for social change. It is an evaluation tool for determining whether ICTs are really improving or worsening women’s lives and gender relations, as well as for promoting positive change at the individual, institutional, community and broader social levels.
GEM has been developed from the ground up, and has involved the collaboration of hundreds of community-based organisations and individuals since its first design in 2002. The network that has developed includes people who developed GEM, who train in how to use GEM, who are adapting GEM to increase its applicability to rural ICT4D projects, telecentres, software localisation and ICT policy advocacy, and who are now offering GEM evaluations on a consultancy basis.
Members of the network share how GEM has changed their understanding of gender and the way they work with ICT. Read more
Annonce du 3e appel à candidatures de GenARDIS
Un fonds de subvention pour traiter les questions de genre dans le domaine des technologies de l’information et de la communication pour l’agriculture et le développement rural en Afrique, dans les Caraïbes et le Pacifique (Pays ACP).
Making a good thing better: Gender, Agriculture and the Information Society Small Grants
The GenARDIS Small Grants Fund to address Gender Issues in Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP Countries) received an overwhelming response in its recent call for applications.
ICT and job flexibility: a solution for women's employment?
A recent conference on Women’s Perspectives in the Labor Market in the Czech Republic touched on a sore nerve: does the job flexibility of ICTs facilitate women working, or does it enable women’s exploitation? The panel on Women and IT brought together researchers, representatives from companies, internet and computer trainers, and women information technology (IT) specialists, all with varying views on this debate.
Flexibility
IT and women – can they satisfy one another?
Have you just ended your maternity or parental leave? Have you been out of the labour market for a longer period? Have you just finished your degree? Are you interested in IT or want to try something new? Do you want to find out if IT could be an option?
A Gender-responsive Information Society: A Priority in the Asia-Pacific Beijing +10 Agenda
The following is a report from the Asia-Pacific Women’s Watch onsite report of the B+10 Intergovernmental High Level Meeting organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission of Asia Pacific. Daily reports from the HLM will be available through the APWW-mailing list, and will also be made available from the APNGO-Forum website at http://ap-ngo-forum.isiswomen.org
A Gender-responsive Information Society: A Priority in the Asia-Pacific Beijing +10 Agenda
Gender and ICT Policy Advocacy: implications for the women's movement
Achievements: The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 is generally regarded as a watershed in understanding of information technology as a powerful tool that women could use for mobilization, information exchange, and empowerment. Beijing was also the first international conference at which substantive issues relating to women, information and communication technology were debated, albeit somewhat on the margins of the core agenda.
