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Short Summary
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| Title |
ICTs, Globalisation and Poverty Reduction: Gender
Dimensions of the Knowledge Society |
| Author |
Huyer,S. and Mitter,S. |
| Publication
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December 2003 |
| Publisher |
Gender Advisory Board, UN Commission on Science
and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) |
| Donor |
The International Development Research Centre
(IDRC) |
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Short Summary |
The 2003 Human Development Report (HDR) has identified
six 'policy clusters' or areas on which poverty reduction depends:
human development; food production; infrastructure investment; supporting
non-traditional private sector activities; human rights and social
equity; and environmental sustainability and urban management. This
paper looks at women's use of Information and Communication Technologies
(ICTs) in these six areas, and the potential of Information and Communication
Technologies ICTs to promote gender equality in poverty reduction
strategies. Part one provides tables on internet use globally, internet
access costs of selected developing countries, language of internet
users and internet content. There is a lack of statistics on gendered
use of the internet, but nevertheless it is clear that women generally
have lesser access to, use of, and benefits from ICTs than men. Tables
are provided which demontrate this lesser use. They also demonstrate
that in developing countries with higher proportions of women users,
such as Thailand, Philippines, South Africa, Chile and Mexico, overall
levels of use are low. Thus, while a small elite of women may have
similar access to elite men, this access is rarely available to women
more broadly. |
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