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Gender Perspectives on the Information Society South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar

IT for Change (ITfC), in partnership with Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (CPP, IIM B) organized a two day South Asian seminar titled "Gender Perspectives on the Information Society - South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar 2005". The seminar was held in Bangalore on the 18th and 19th of April 2005 and was supported by UNIFEM and the APDIP program of UNDP.

Rationale and Background

The WSIS Agenda and the Missing Link

IT for Change's Approach to the Debate

A South Asia Seminar

Seminar Outputs

The outcomes of the seminar as well as its specific outputs will be tied into a sustained strategy for feminist engagement with the information society debate in general, and the WSIS processes in particular. On the one side, the seminar and its follow-up will aim to take vital areas of concern to the grassroots and to feminists, and on the other, it will attempt to plug feminist perspectives, advocacy and activity in these areas into global processes, with special focus on the forthcoming Tunis phase of the WSIS.

Programme Schedule and Speakers

List of participants

Papers presented

Author(s) Title

Najma Sadeque Gender in the Information Society - Perspectives from Pakistan

Leelangi Wanasundera Expanding Women's Capacities Through Access to ICT: An Overview from Sri Lanka

Anuradha Chenoy Women's Movements And Information And Communications Technologies

Mridul Chowdhury And Tahmina Khanam Incorporating Gender Issues in ICT Policy-Making

Heike Jensen Women, Media and ICTs in UN Politics: Progress or Backlash?

Bandana Rana Feminist Perspectives on Media

Anita Anand Cyberspace - bastion of freedom or freedom from responsibility?

Lawrence Liang Tintoretto's Daughter and the Public Domain

Revathi Balakrishnan ICTs & women's livelihoods: How real or tenuous is the connection?

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan Kumar And Janardhan Rao Cheeli Community Media and Women: Forging subaltern Counter publics

Usha Vyasulu Reddi And Rukmini Vemraju Using ICTs to bridge the Digital Divide

Arun Mehta Unpacking Internet Governance

Madhu Kishwar IT Revolution: A Liberating Force for Women
Carol Upadhya Gender Issues in the Indian Software Outsourcing Industry

Tasneem Ahmar Local media and women's identity articulation

Chat Garcia Ramilo Gender Issues in ICT and Poverty Reduction

Supriya Roy Chowdhury Has IT Made A Difference?

Nazneen Sultana ICTs for Poor Women - Grameen's Experiences

Anita Gurumurthy & Parminder Jeet Singh Civil Society and Feminist Engagement at WSIS - Some Reflections

Anita Gurumurthy & Parminder Jeet Singh Cake for the North and Crumbs for the South - The Political Economy of the Information Society

Sevanti Ninan Gender, Community and Citizen's media

Piush Anthony Opening Address