Asia & Pacific

The Gender Digital Divide in Rural Pakistan: How Wide Is It & How to Bridge It?
This ppt presentation urges closing the gender gap by efforts in the following aspects: Revised IT Policy/interventions for women's empowerment to stress role of 'old' ICTs such as radio, TV for development & women's empowerment in particular: accessible & potentially empowering; Implies (public) investment in related infrastructure & (localised) contents; Social norms crucial factors determining women & girls' access to & use of ICTs, to be addressed if universal access to ICTs is policy objective; ICTs not silver bullet for development: Basic development issues, e.g. livelihood insecurity, physical infrastructure, to be addressed first.
11 March 2010

ICTs for Women's Empowerment - Learning From Best Practices
This fine presentation was delivered at Sustainable Development Policy Institute, August 13, 2009. It describes such case studies like NCHD: Community Technology Learning Centers (CTLC); Visual Anthropology-Woman to Woman Video Project; eHomemakers-Empowering Women through Home Based Income Earning (Malaysia); Foundation of Occupational Development (FOOD): Inter-city Marketing Network for Women Micro-entrepreneurs.
11 March 2010

Information and Communication Technologies and Gender in Sri Lanka
The general objective of the project was to study the diffusion of new information and communication technologies in Sri Lanka from a gender perspective and the use of information technology in economic, social and political spheres. The specific objectives of the study were to assess from a gender perspective the following dimensions of the issue.
11 March 2010