Workshop on 'Gender Perspectives on the Information Society'. Pre-WSIS Seminar - Bengaluru, April 2005

Mar 2005
IT for Change

IT for Change, DAWN, and the Centre for Public Policy organised a seminar on 'Gender Perspectives on the Information Society - South Asia' in Bengaluru (India) on 18-19 April 2005.

The outcomes of the seminar as well as its specific outputs were to 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 aimed to take vital areas of concern to the grassroots and to feminists, and on the other, it attempted to plug feminist perspectives, advocacy and activity in these areas into global processes, with special focus on the Tunis phase of the WSIS.

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Rationale 15.76 KB
The WSIS agenda and the missing link13.47 KB
Themes of focus22.77 KB
IT for Change's approach to the debate11.19 KB
Programme schedule and speakers49.79 KB
List of participants30.52 KB
Gender in the information society - Perspectives from Pakistan153.9 KB
Expanding women's capacities through access to ICT: An overview from Sri Lanka175.05 KB
Women's movements and Information and Communications Technologies101.11 KB
Incorporating gender issues in ICT policy-making152.91 KB
Women, media and ICTs in UN politics: Progress or backlash? 133.84 KB
Feminist perspectives on media108.12 KB
Cyberspace - bastion of freedom or freedom from responsibility?128.92 KB
Tintoretto's daughter and the public domain322.3 KB
ICTs & women's livelihoods: How real or tenuous is the connection?218.72 KB
Unpacking Internet governance – and finding red herrings55.92 KB
Using ICTs to bridge the digital divide261.75 KB
Local media and women's identity articulation89.47 KB
Community media and women: Forging subaltern counter publics238.72 KB
Gender issues in ICT and poverty reduction170.96 KB
Has IT made a difference?147.45 KB
Gender issues in the Indian software outsourcing industry207.1 KB
ICTs for poor women - Grameen's experiences164.7 KB
Civil society and feminist engagement at WSIS - Some reflections90.7 KB
Cake for the North and crumbs for the South - The political economy of the information society123.78 KB
Gender, community and citizen's media100.09 KB
Opening address84.37 KB
digital infrastructure
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feminism
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information society
India
network society
South Asia
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
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What We Do
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Information Society for the South