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Del cuerpo el dato: la sociedad de la información y las mujeres
El artículo va desde la mirada al tema de la conectividad de las mujeres venezolanas que participan en experiencias de redes, hasta las estrategias de apropiación social de las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación que se han descrito en algunos planes regionales y mundiales.
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Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación y la mujer: la producción de e-lusiones para la mujer, ahora por internet
Este artículo revisa los procesos de transformación socio-tecnológicos de producción y distribución de bienes simbólicos en la sociedad de la información que, si bien generaron un complejo replanteo en la cultura y de las relaciones individuales y colectivas cotidianas entre los actores sociales, reedita relaciones intergenéricas que continúan modelos culturales hegemónicos.
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Negotiating transgender identities on a South African web site
Jeanne Prinsloo, the APC's EroTICs project partner in South Africa, looks at the use of the internet by South African transgender people, and examines the internet's role in the process of transitioning from one gender identity to another. She concludes that the internet provides a critical space for trans people to access support, to rehearse their new identity, to hear marginalised narratives…
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Dealing with fraud and internet "love": women and cybercrime in Burkina Faso
Fraud, data piracy, seeking partners on the internet: women in Burkina Faso are as much victims as perpetrators. From Ouagadougou to Banfora via Bobo-Dioulasso, and from Ouahigouya to Dori, all towns with an internet connection are affected by this phenomenon. However, the fight against this crime is in the tentative stages, if not altogether non-existent. Legislation is still under development.
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Where is the Money for Women's Rights Work on ICT? A brief look at the funding landscape for women’s organisations working on information and communication technologies
In collaboration with the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), Lucía Carrasco, Fernanda Hopenhaym and Cindy Clark focuses the findings from "Where is the money for women's right? Strategic…
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Women and Philippine Media: At the Fringes of Freedom
Where are women located in the struggle for freedoms to express, create and disseminate information through ICTs as media? Censorship comes in multiple forms in the Philippines. The country has one of the highest counts of media practitioners who are killed in the course of their work in the region. Yet, it retains a conflicting standing as one of the open media landscape in South East Asia.…
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In search of Gender inclusive ICTs in Pakistan: But Where?
This article briefly looks at the need to integrate gender into gender mainstreaming efforts by the Pakistan government in ICT policy implementation. In particular, it explores the potential of the private sector as a significant initiator of this process, citing Responsible Business Initiative as an noteworthy example.
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Publication Digitall Future gives a feminist perspective to the Information Society
A team of feminist journalists from Asia, Latin America, North Africa, the Middle East and Eastern and Western Europe will take part in the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) from November 16-18th in Tunis, Tunisia.
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WSIS Tunis: In the face of police repression, civil society cancels activities
Many international NGOs taking part in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) have collectively decided to cancel their activities planned for today, November 15, at WSIS. This measure is to make government, private sector and civil society delegates aware of the human rights violations that have been adding up over the last two days including beatings of journalists by police and the…
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Mobile Help-line for Women Tops Gender and ICT
Pallitathya, an innovative Mobile Help-Line programme via cell phones for underprivileged women in rural Bangladesh beat thirty other entries from all over the Asia-Pacific to win this year's Gender and Information…