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Short Summary
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| Title |
Bridging the Gender Digital Divide: A Report
on Gender and Information and Communication Technologies in Central
and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States |
| Author |
Simerska, L. and Fialova, K. |
| Publication
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August 2004 |
| Publisher |
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
and UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent
States (RBEC) |
| Donor |
UNDP RBEC |
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Short Summary |
What are the opportunities and challenges faced
by women in relation to Information and Communication Technologies
(ICTs) in the Central Eastern Europe (CEE)/Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS) region? National Action Plans for Information Policies,
which guide national ICT development, are being developed by many
countries, but a gender perspective is largely absent from these plans.
At the same time, women's organisations in the region have generally
focused on issues such as domestic violence, trafficking, gender equality
legislation and reproductive health and have not really engaged with
ICT issues. There has therefore been little pressure on policy makers
to take gender into account in the ICT arena. Yet, women in this region
share many of the challenges experienced by women elsewhere. These
include unequal access to advanced ICT training and exclusion from
developing online content that responds to their needs and priorities.
The report recommends measures by the UN, governments and donors to
strengthen integration of gender in ICTs in the CEE/CIS region, including:
support for the involvement of women and women's organisations in
the region in the WSIS process; further research on the status of
women in the ICT sector and the gender impact of ICT policies; strengthening
gender within ICT projects; and capacity building for ICT project
personnel on gender. |
| Summary By |
Osnat Lubrani, UNDP |
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