Gender
Financing for ICT for Development in India
March 17, 2008, Xu Weiting, genderIT.org
This article stresses the importance of building synergies between the private sector, civil society and the State in making ICT initiatives sustainable and inclusive. The author points to the difficulties in financing Information and Communication Technology for development (ICTD) projects in India vis-a-vis other social development programmes as also the persisting digital divide even while the IT sector is growing.
CMCs and subaltern gendered selves
December 2007, Lopa Ghosh, I4donline
The article provides a window into the use of community media as a tool for engineering transformation in lives of women, particularly from those sections of society where their independence is significantly curtailed due to narrow social and religious practices. It reports on a recent study of the effect of the use of Internet among the women of a predominantly low-income Muslim community in East Delhi. It shows that the Internet has opened a new world to these women who were traditionally closeted behind thick veils of seclusion in the name of religion.
Technology, social process and gender in the information society - Workshop report
2007, IT for Change
This is a report of an international workshop conducted by IT for Change and Lulea University of Technology, Sweden in February 2007 in Mysore, India. The workshop took a systems approach that examined the intersecting grids of social and institutional change, gender transformative processes and techno-social models.
Women's literacy and Information and Communication Technologies: Lessons that experience has taught us
November 2006, Anita Dighe and Usha Vyasulu Reddi, CEMCA
This paper highlights why women's illiteracy needs to be addressed and outlines documented experiences in using ICTs to address illiteracy. After reviewing some of the salient experiences of running literacy programmes for women in developing countries, the authors discuss the support needed from a broad array of sources and areas for meaningful use of ICT interventions in women's literacy.
Gender in the information society: Emerging issues
2006, Anita Gurumurthy et al., UNDP: Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme
This selection of papers comes from a seminar organized by an Indian NGO, IT for Change, in April 2005. The collection offers valuable literature on areas which have largely gone unnoticed in ICT and development discourse.
Critical voices: Women's perspectives on the role of the information society in fostering human development
December 2003, Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change
The author of this piece contends that the use of ICTs in realising human development goals is constrained by the larger socio-economic context, which itself is rooted in neo-liberal policies. At WSIS, negotiations between governments, as over anything that implicates global justice, will result in the adoption of the lowest common denominator.
