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South Africa: Violence against Women and ICT

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:38 | 10,542 views
Two key debates are examined in the paper by Shereen Essof: censorship versus freedom of expression and privacy versus surveillance. She looks at the practices of VAW in a country with the world's highest reported rate of femicide and where there is little understanding of the strategic use of ICTs to support combating VAW as well as recognizing new avenues for perpetrating violence against women.

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EROTICS: An Exploratory Research on Sexuality & The Internet - Policy Review

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:38 | 8,322 views
This policy review is produced by Mabel Bianco and Andrea Mariño as part of the APC WNSP EROTICS: Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet project. This document is intended for the development of the EROTICS' research policy framework and scope.

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EROTICS: An Exploratory Research on Sexuality & The Internet - Literature Review

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:38 | 9,432 views
This literature review produced by Manjima Bhattacharjya and Maya Indira Ganesh is part of the APC WNSP EROTICS: Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet project. This document is intended for the development of the EROTICS' research framework and approach.

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Statement of the Gender DC for the Taking Stock and Moving Forward Session 2008

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:37 | 4,908 views
The statement of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Gender presented at the third Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India,on the 6 of December 2008.

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Gender and Electronic Privacy

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:37 | 4,942 views
This site is designed to elucidate types of privacy violations that have been used to exploit women in particular, including cyberstalking, pretexting, and video voyeurism. It focus on electronic privacy.

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Report on Engendering the ICT Policy Process in Uganda

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:37 | 4,618 views
The findings of this research indicates there were attempts to identify and eliminate gender disparities in access and use of ICT within the Uganda national ICT policy development process. However clear-cut gender incorporation strategy was missing, and the ICT policy process was largely dominated by men. This The report includes a set of recommendations how to further enhance gender equality…

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Global Information Society Watch 2007 report: monitoring the implementation of key agreements about ICT policies

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:34 | 3,885 views
The Global Information Society Watch (GISW) 2007 report - the first in a series of annual reports- looks at state of the field of information and communication technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels and particularly how policy impacts on the lives of people living in developing countries.

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Content Regulations From Gender and Development Perspectives: Some Thoughts & Suggestions for Next Steps

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:34 | 5,744 views
Mavic Cabrera-Balleza reflects upon the "Content regulations from gender and development perspective” panel organised by the Assocation of Progressive Communications, Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) at the first IGF held in Athens, Greece from 30 October to 02 November, 2006. The report highlights some of the important points raised in the discussions, and provides some follow-up…

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Search history: Examining pornography on the internet

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:34 | 7,079 views
Namita Malhotra examines in this paper, the discourse of pornography in relation to the internet in India. She interrogates the Indian women's movements negotiation with issues around sexuality and censorship, as well as the various legislative, cultural, and ethical debates that intersect around this issue in recent years.

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Gender in the information Society: Emerging issues

Posted Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 23:34 | 3,837 views
This publication is a collection of 13 papers developed for a pre-World Summit on the Information Society seminar, produced by UNDP-APDIP in partnership with UNIFEM and IT for Change. It showcases perspectives that critique the engagement with new technologies in various development sectors such as the governance, media and work.