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Women and Media (From Sandesh.org)
Women and media: Progress and issues (2003)
According to the results of an online discussion intiated by WomenWatch there have been few improvements in media portrayal of women both in advertising and news coverage. Women still scarcely occupy decision-making positions in media organizations. Technological developments have made women's images in media more complex and contributed to unattainable social expectations surrounding women's beauty and abilities. However, it also noted that women and media monitoring groups have made some contributions in promoting positive images and role of women in media.
Overcoming the gender digital divide: Understanding ICTs and their potential for the empowerment of women (2003)
This research paper offers research findings on the potential of ICTs and how they can empower and transform women's lives. This burgeoning potential will not be realised, the authors assert, until women of all nations compound efforts to better inform policy-makers of the needs of women in relation to the access and use of ICTs, and the need to shape policy formation accordingly.
Gender, information technology, and developing countries: An analytic study (1998)
Information technology (IT) has become a potent force in transforming social, economic, and political life globally. Without its incorporation into the information age, there is little chance for countries or regions to develop. More and more concern is being shown about the impact of those left on the other side of the digital divide - the division between the information "haves" and "have nots." Most women within developing countries are in the deepest part of the divide - further removed from the information age than the men whose poverty they share. If access to and use of these technologies is directly linked to social and economic development, then it is imperative to ensure that women in developing countries understand the significance of these technologies and use them. If not, they will become further marginalized from the mainstream of their countries and of the world. It is essential that gender issues be considered early in the process of the introduction of information technology in developing countries so that gender concerns can be incorporated from the beginning and not as a corrective afterwards. Many people dismiss the concern for gender and IT in developing countries on the basis that development should deal with basic needs first. However, it is not a choice between one and the other. IT can be an important tool in meeting women's basic needs and can provide the access to resources to lead women out of poverty.
ICTs as an instrument in advancing girls’ and women’s capabilities in school education in Africa
Any interrogation into the use ICTs as a tool for the advancement of African girls
and women in education has to confront three major contextual areas:
educational and development issues, ICT issues and gender issues and the confluence between these. This paper contends that a clear conceptual framework in problematising the education crisis from a developmental, gendered and ICT perspective is lacking and is critical in providing conceptual clarity on appropriate strategies for using ICTs as a tool for women’s empowerment particularly in Africa.
Gender Issues in Information Technology Communication
In a women's list group, one member (tagged CP) jumped in and suggested that one of the discussants (tagged DH) had to be a male despite the obviously female name used. According to CP, who acknowledged herself as female, because DH was always critical in her/his messages regarding the issues discussed and was aggressive in asserting his/her ideas, DH had to be a man. CP also attributed her suspicion that DH was a man to the language DH used. While the sexual identity of a member of a list-group may be concealed, apparently, some can still detect this through the language the person uses. This is a report published by Isis International - Manila.
Telecentres for universal access: Engendered policy options
The concept of community-based telecentres recently gained widespread attention as a vital response to the perpetual lack of access to information and communication technologies and services in the developing world. While telecentres are not an entirely new idea, the strong emphasis on this new policy option offers an intriguing and encouraging approach to overcoming the wide disparities of access in the global information society, and as such, provide opportunities for developing societies and historically disadvantaged regions and populations to participate in the newly emerging social and economic orders. This is a report published by Isis International - Manila.
Women Connect! Case study of an alternative communication model
For women’s organisations engaged in outreach—whether to community members or to politicians, legislators and the media, communication skills are crucial. Today the communication strategies of women’s non-government organisations (NGOs) span a broad range—from posters, folk drama, and slogan-bearing t-shirts to the Internet and Websites. However, many, if not most, women’s organisations, in both developed and developing countries, know they still have much to learn about communication—be it traditional media, mass media or modern information technology. This is a report published by Isis International - Manila.
Get in and Get in early: Ensuring women’s access to and participation in ICT Projects
Recent research on Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based projects shows that the majority of these projects developed and funded by major donors do not consider gender an important component of project design and, consequently, fail to address the demands of women in the targeted communities and provide them access to ICT. This is a report published by Isis International - Manila.
Transforming infomation and communications technologies (ICTs) for gender equality
This monograph examines how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can contribute to sustainable human development (SHD), and specifically its gender equality and women’s empowerment goals. It shows that this outcome is neither automatic nor inevitable. On the contrary, factors inherent in the manner in which ICTs have been developed and used threaten the achievement of SHD and its gender equality objectives. It is therefore important for development thinkers and practitioners to understand the technological and institutional changes that are shaping the production, use and rapid diffusion of ICTS, whether they are working on specific gender or more general development issues. The monograph is intended to contribute to that understanding.
Partnership with media for transformative leadership
The concept of transformative leadership still has to acquire a wide following in the mainline media - not because of opposition or sceptism to the idea but simply due to lack of its wide dissemination. This is the paper presented by Angana Parekh of Women's Feature Service-India during the Asia-Pacific Congress and Training of Women and Men in Media, and Women in Politics, Governance and Decision-making on Transformative Leadership held in Manila, Philippines on 8-10 November 2001.
Gender analysis of telecenter evaluation methodology
This document sets out to address the question of how gender can be meaningfully integrated into telecentre evaluation methodologies. It is animated by African experiences and examples and specifically by South African experiences and examples. Specifically in terms of primary research with women and men working as telecentre operators and managers, with women and men in communities serviced by telecentres and an investigation of similarities of these experiences across countries and continents in the developing world.
Gender and Information and Communications Technology (ICT): Towards an analyticalk framework
This paper presents a range of perspectives on gender and information and communication technology (ICT) drawn from a review of the literature. The aim is to present some of the major debates and critiques of ICT to highlight some important issues of concern for women. It also provides an analytical framework from which to view women’s global participation in, need for and critique of computer networking. The framework builds on an initial one developed for our second research study: Women Working in ICT.
Access to media: Best practices, obstacles and challenges
Over the last five years, women have made significant advances in gaining access to media. They have also become aware of important hurdles. This document, included in the CSW Media Caucus Information Pack, attempts to unpack these experiences.
Women meeting the challenge: A handbook for media leadership
This is filled with practical solutions to the barriers that hold women back from reaching their leadership potential. It draws upon the discussions at CSLI and other AWMC programs to create a guide for women aspiring to leadership in the news media. It uses recent studies to demonstrate where African women stand as leaders in the media.
Directory of women's media
This is a directory of women's media organizations in print periodicals, internet and other women's media compiled by the Women Institute for Press Freedom.
Women working with media for development and democracy
This is a directory of women's organizations working with media.
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