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MISTICA: Gender and ICTs - call for papers

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Fri Apr 19 2002 - 12:18:07 AST

>To: [email protected]
>From: claire shearman <[email protected]>
>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:15:13 +0100
>Subject: [Globalcn2000] gender and ICTs - call for papers
>
>Some people may be interested in this
>
> >INSTRAW Call for Papers
> >Gender and ICTs
> >Background
> >Information and communication technologies are recognized as key
> >elements of the new global knowledge-based economy, ensuring rapid and
> >continuous transfer of commercial, financial and political information
> >crucial to the development process. However, it has been argued that
> >women worldwide lag overwhelmingly behind men in the access to and use
> >of ICTs. This newly developing gender gap is being argued to be a major
> >source of gender inequality and one of the major obstacles to
> >mainstreaming a gender perspective in development.
> >In order to address the gender digital gap, the 1995 World Conference on
> >Women (Beijing) delineated a strategy to promote greater access to
> >communication by women internationally. Equally, the Beijing+5
> >Conference (2000, New York) called upon development cooperation to
> >strengthen the capacity of women to use new technologies for advancing
> >their position and for achieving gender equality and thus sustainable
> >development.
> >As a result, many initiatives have been undertaken by women and women�s
> >organizations that aim at providing women with an access to ICTs as
> >tools for social and economic empowerment. Furthermore, national and
> >international agencies have also pursued many initiatives in order to
> >ensure that women are not deprived of the benefits of the emerging
> >"information society". Many of these initiatives, however, have been
> >undertaken in relative isolation from one another, and thus are not
> >informed by shared learning experiences. Nor are these projects and
> >initiatives necessarily integrated from the beginning into larger
> >development policy frameworks.
> >
> >INSTRAW Collaborative Research Project on Gender and ICTs
> >To address the need for sharing of knowledge and learning about gender
> >aspects of ICTs, INSTRAW is initiating a collaborative research
> >programme which aims:
> >* To ascertain the state-of-the-art in terms of access and use,
> >management and regulation, and impact of ICTs on women.
> >* To determine the constituents of an enabling/disabling environment.
> >* To gain a better understanding of how women and men are involved in
> >ICTs, particularly in the developing countries;
> >* To investigate what is presently being done by key stakeholders to
> >promote and support projects aimed at the equal participation of women
> >and men in ICTs in developing countries;
> >* To propose ways in which ICTs can better serve as an important tool
> >for empowerment and close the gender gap if and where such exists.
> >In order to achieve this, INSTRAW is inviting the submission of Papers
> >to be used as background information for the Virtual Workshops that will
> >be held online through INSTRAW�s Gender Awareness Information and
> >Networking System (GAINS). The papers should address the following
> >issues:
> >1) Gender dimension of access and use of ICTs through profiling of
> >women and men using ICTs (age/income/region); how women and men- and in
> >what ratio -access and use ICTs and for what purpose; what information
> >is accessed; where it is used (private/public domain), etc..
> >2) Gender dimensions of management and regulation of ICTs: how women
> >and men participate in ICTs (as
> >users/producers/managers/specialists-designers, technicians, analysts,
> >etc); what are the existing ICT-related regulations and norms on the
> >international and national levels as well as the existing regulatory
> >instruments and tools and how do women participate;
> >3) Impact assessment on a sectoral basis: how ICTs impact on women and
> >men: cultural (changes in cultural norms and stereotypes);
> >social/political (empowers and enhances cooperation, negotiation, social
> >action); and economic (new skills/employment). Why, if so, ICTs impact
> >differently on women and men - education and training; socialization
> >patterns; availability (cost, priorities, interest - women are poorer,
> >have different priorities and interests).
> >4) Examination of country/regional/sub-regional variations in access to
> >and use of ICTs; analysis of experiences; lessons learned and good
> >national/regional practices.
> >
> >Authors should submit a 500 word abstracts to INSTRAW no later than 22
> >April 2002, together with a brief resume of their academic/professional
> >background and experience. INSTRAW will select the most relevant
> >abstracts by 1 May 2002 and commission the authors of the selected
> >papers to prepare full versions of the papers. Authors will be paid a
> >fee of US$ 1,000 per paper. The specific terms and conditions of this
> >assignment will be discussed with the authors on an individual basis
> >once the selection process has been finalized. Authors should submit
> >their papers to INSTRAW by 1 June 2002 and are expected to present them
> >at the Gender and ICTs Virtual Workshops which will be held during the
> >3rd quarter of 2002 through GAINS. It is important to note that the
> >papers should be based on original research and should not be more than
> >7,000 words in length.
> >Abstracts should be sent to Tatjana Sikoska at:
> >[email protected]
> >
> >For more information about INSTRAW and GAINS, please visit:
> >www.un-instraw.org

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