Subject: [fem-women2000 462] IWTC Women's GlobalNet #154: Gender and ICTs 〔再送〕
From: lalamaziwa <lalamaziwa@jca.apc.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:57:01 +0900
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こちらも文字化けが....、再送です。失礼しました。 ＃ MS word や AOL messanger に付属している "smart quote" 機能（文字化けの原因になる）を使わないよう要請していきます。 今回の特集は「情報通信技術、開発とジェンダーの視点から」 fem-net からもかかわっているイニシアティブも含まれています。 ＃ どなたかこの号の翻訳に挑戦しません？ --lalamaziwa ---------------- Original message follows ---------------- From: iwtc <iwtc@iwtc.org> To: iwtc-womensglobalnet@igc.topica.com Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:21:09 -0700 Subject: Women's GlobalNet #154: Gender and ICTs -- IWTC Women's GlobalNet #154 Activities and Initiatives of Women Worldwide By Anne S. Walker and Joy Wang July 14th, 2000 GENDER AND INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTS) FOR DEVELOPMENT This issue of IWTC Women's GlobalNet focuses on policies, plans, programmes and research in the area of Gender and ICTs for Development. It comes on the heels of several important initiatives taken by international organizations on the question of the importance of ICTs for development. Here in New York at the UN, from July 5th to 7th, 2000, ECOSOC (the UN Economic and Social Council) held a High Level Segment of the 2000 Substantive Session on ICTs for Development. From 7th to 10th March, 2000, the Global Knowledge II Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia also focused on strategies to bring knowledge and information to the Global South. High Level initiatives and activities such as these support the activities of women's media networks in every world region, the focus of the last two issues of IWTC Women's GlobalNet. The following are brief descriptions of some of the initiatives that are specific to Gender and ICTs for Development. 1) ECOSOC HIGH LEVEL SEGMENT ON ICTs FOR DEVELOPMENT TAKES PLACE AT UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, 5-7 July 2000. After 3 days of deliberations, a Ministerial Declaration on Information Technology was passed which stated, among other things, "deep concern that the potential of information and communication technology for advancing development, particularly in developing countries, had not been fully captured" The declaration goes on to call on all members of the international community "to work cooperatively to bridge the "digital divide" and to foster "digital opportunity". In addition, the international community was called upon to: a) urgently promote programmes that intensify cooperation; b) actively explore new financing for ICT initiatives; c) devise measures to reduce costs of internet access devices in developing countries and: d) explore measures to facilitate access to ICT training. (For a webcast of the entire High Level Segment, go to <http://www.un.org/webcast/ecosoc2000. You will also find documentation for the meeting at <http:www.un.org/ecosoc2000). In a brief intervention on behalf of NGO gender issues, IWTC, speaking for the Conference of NGOs at the UN, called for the UN to: a) proclaim the right of democratic and equitable access to information and communication services, with a focus on access for women and other marginalized groups: b) set up an ICT Gender Task Force that would bring together departments and specialized agencies of the UN system, multilateral development institutions, private industry, foundations, mass media and NGOs, including women's information and communication networks, to develop an ICT Gender Action Plan; and c) set up a facility (i.e. fund) to carry out the ICT Gender Action Plan with monies solicited from private organizations, foundations and Member States. The facility could leverage additional resources through matching programmes within countries, and could be integrated into the Global Knowledge II (Malaysia 2000) recommendation for a Gender and ICT Replication and Learning Fund. For the full text of IWTC's intervention, write to: E-mail: iwtc@iwtc.org or Fax: (1-212) 661-2704. (Full address at end of bulletin). 1. OUTCOMES OF THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE II (GKII) CONFERENCE, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, 7-10 March 2000: A GENDER PRESPECTIVE. More than a thousand people from 120 countries attended the GKII Conference Action Summit with the common purpose of hammering out strategies which will bring information and knowledge to the Global South and women. The GKII Women's Forum produced an Action Plan that outlined public-private partnership initiatives and agenda of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) working groups for the next several years. GKP working groups intend to concentrate on the challenges facing women to: Access, Empowerment, and Governance. The GKII Gender Action Plan is a living document and will serve as a basis of further discussion and initiatives by governments, women and women's groups worldwide. To find out more, visit GKP's website at: http://www.globalknowledge.org/index_main.htm or contact Rosemary Kalapurakal at UNIFEM: E-mail: rosemary.kalapurakal@undp.org. 2. ITU (INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION) TASK FORCE ON GENDER ISSUES (TFGI). The ITU Task Force on Gender Issues was established in 1998 to a) ensure that telecommunications services and programmes are widely available equally to men and women and b) ensure gender equality within the ITU. The task force includes several NGO representatives. For more information on the ITU TFGI, contact: Pat Faccin, Secretary, Task Force on Gender Issues, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland. E-mail: patricia.faccin@itu.int Tel: (41-22) 730-5489. Fax: (41-22) 730-5778. 3. RESEARCH, POLICY, ACTION! A. How Women's International NGOs use web sites in their work: Dr. Gillian Youngs from the University of Leicester surveyed 30 NGOs on how they use web sites in order to understand the communications role that the Internet plays in NGOs--current and future work. These findings should help policy makers to be more aware of the contextual and practical issues of the web for women's organizations. The results of this research will be published in summary form on Leicester University's "Gender, Communications Technology and Globalization" website: <http://www.le.ac.uk/cmcr/gtg>. For more information, contact: Dr. Gillian Youngs, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, LE1 7LT. UK. Tel/Fax: (44-116) 252-3863/3874. E-mail gy4@le.ac.uk (Gillian Youngs) or mk38@le.ac.uk (Margarita Kondopoulou). B. APC (Association for Progressive Communications) -Africa/FEMNET research to identify women's electronic networking needs and opportunities: After five years of intensive post Beijing online use, this research assesses what actual impact ICTs have had on women and gender equality in Africa. The research also helps in understanding how and to what extent ICTs have helped women's organizations to network with each other and with governments, including how to lobby, access resources, disseminate information, and foster organizational growth. The research report, entitled "Global Networking for Change: Experiences from the APC Women's Programme" can be accessed at http://community.web.net/apcwomen.htm. This research builds on an earlier global outreach project entitled "African Women Speak Out on the Internet" which gave results from an electronic survey about the information and communication needs of women and women's NGOs. This report can be accessed at <http://flamme.org/documents/apcresearch.htm>. C. APC research project entitled: "Lessons Learned: Building Strong Internet-Based Women's Networks". This is an 18 month project (October 1999 to March 2001) to create resources and tools that will assist women's organizations to network more successfully. This two-pronged research will produce: a) a Women's Networking Resource Kit and b) an ICT Gender Audit Methodology. The Women's Networking Resource Kit (due November 2000) will include lessons learned and case studies of how women's organizations with limited resources have successfully used ICTs for networking and capacity building. The ICT Gender Audit Methodology (due March 2001) will be an ICT project planner with diagnostic tools to enable newcomers to successfully implement ICTs in their initiatives. 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