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Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs)

Can ICTs challenge unequal gender power relations, or do they just reinforce these inequalities? This theme examines ICTs from a gender perspective, interrogating the new digital technologies as well as the role of the media more broadly in reinforcing and challenging gender stereotypes.

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Who benefits from information and communication technology (ICTs)? ICTs have created new economic and social opportunities the world over. The positive changes brought about by ICTs, however, have not touched all of humanity. Their use continues to be governed by existing power relations where women frequently experience relative disadvantage. Amidst this inequality are individuals and organisations that are working to use these technologies to further gender equality.


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  1. Website: Radio Internacional Feminista (RIF/FIRE) Costa Rica (in Spanish and English)

    Feminist International Radio Endeavour / Radio Internacional Feminista, Jan 2008
    Radio FIRE (Radio Internacional Feminista) is a communications project produced by Latin American and Caribbean women living in Costa Rica. It communicates information and analysis from women's perspectives through campaigns, ...more

  2. Video: Video Games for Social Change

    Breakthrough Institute, Mar 2010
    How can video games be used for good? This video interview with Heidi Boisvert from Breakthrough explains how video games, often seen as promoting violence, racism or sexism, are now ...more

  3. The ‘J Spot’ at the 54th CSW: Celebrating Women’s Social Networking is not Enough

    Author: H. Jensen, GenderIT.org, Jan 2010
    This article by genderIT looks at how Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action, termed the 'J Spot', which examines women and the media, is not present in this ...more

  4. Recasting the Beijing Platform for Action through the Information Society Lens - A Conceptual and Action Framework

    Author: A. Gurumurthy;P. Jeet Singh;A. Kovacs, , Jun 2009
    Since the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) was adopted, the communications and media landscape has been undergoing tremendous changes. The corporatisation of television channels, online newspapers and other Internet-enabled routes ...more

  5. BRIDGE Bibliography 17: 20 sites francophone clefs sur le genre/ 20 key gender websites in French

    BRIDGE, Jan 2006
    This paper lists twenty websites in French which provide a variety of information on gender. These include sites from southern and northern based organisations and multilateral organisations who are involved ...more

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