National ICT policy and gender equality, Regional perspective: Asia

Paper prepared for the Expert Group Meeting of the UN Division for the Advancement of Women focussing on the impact of ICTS and their use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women. The paper compares national policy in a range of issues including universal access, e-governance, trafficking of women, pornography, censureship, cybercrime and ICTs as a public good. The paper suggests six concrete points of intervention in gender and icts for national governments to explore.