Gender in the Information Society: Emerging Issues
Bangkok; New Delhi: UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP);Elsevier (2006), xi, 142 pp.
Contains acronyms
Series: UNDP-APDIP ICT4D Series
ISBN 81-312-0632-7
CC BY
"This publication features a series of papers that represent an early exploration of the challenges and opportunities for actors committed to gender equality in the information society. It is meant to open up the debates that can pave the way for a sustained engagement of gender activists with one of the most powerful contemporary social phenomena." (Back cover)
I. GENDER AT WSIS
Women, Media and ICTs in UN Politics: Progress or Backlash? / Heike Jensen, 3
Civil Society and Feminist Engagement at WSIS: Some Reflections / Anita Gurumurthy and Parminder Jeet Singh, 15
WSIS: Some Reflections on Emerging Discourses and Frameworks / Radhika Lal, 27
II. GENDER PERSPECTIVES ON ICT4D
The Right to Information and the Information Society / Nikhil Dey, 35
Expanding Women's Capacities through Access to ICTs: An Overview from Sri Lanka / Leelangi Wanasundera, 42
Using ICTs to Bridge the Digital Divide / Usha Vyasulu Reddi and Rukmini Vemraju, 53
Empowering Communities through IT: Multi-stakeholder Approaches and the Akshaya Experiment / Aruna Sundararajan, 65
Gender Issues in the Indian Software Outsourcing Industry / Carol Upadhya, 74
III. WOMEN AND MEDIA IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
Local Media and Women's Identity Articulation / Tasneem Ahmar, 87
Community Media and Women: Transforming Silence into Speech / Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik and Janardhan Rao Cheeli, 96
Diversity as Casualty: Gender in the Time of Media Globalization / Ammu Joseph, 110
IV. REFLECTIONS ON THE SEMINAR
Part 1 / Gita Sen, 125
Part 2 / Nivedita Menon, 130
Women, Media and ICTs in UN Politics: Progress or Backlash? / Heike Jensen, 3
Civil Society and Feminist Engagement at WSIS: Some Reflections / Anita Gurumurthy and Parminder Jeet Singh, 15
WSIS: Some Reflections on Emerging Discourses and Frameworks / Radhika Lal, 27
II. GENDER PERSPECTIVES ON ICT4D
The Right to Information and the Information Society / Nikhil Dey, 35
Expanding Women's Capacities through Access to ICTs: An Overview from Sri Lanka / Leelangi Wanasundera, 42
Using ICTs to Bridge the Digital Divide / Usha Vyasulu Reddi and Rukmini Vemraju, 53
Empowering Communities through IT: Multi-stakeholder Approaches and the Akshaya Experiment / Aruna Sundararajan, 65
Gender Issues in the Indian Software Outsourcing Industry / Carol Upadhya, 74
III. WOMEN AND MEDIA IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
Local Media and Women's Identity Articulation / Tasneem Ahmar, 87
Community Media and Women: Transforming Silence into Speech / Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik and Janardhan Rao Cheeli, 96
Diversity as Casualty: Gender in the Time of Media Globalization / Ammu Joseph, 110
IV. REFLECTIONS ON THE SEMINAR
Part 1 / Gita Sen, 125
Part 2 / Nivedita Menon, 130
