Date:Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:09:41 -0400
From:Bibiana Apolonia DEL BRUTTO <[email protected]>

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS A NON-EDITED AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL IN SPANISH

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE REPLIES TO Yacine Khelladi, Transv.: Reflection about gender and ICT 06/03/2000)

Greetings to all,

I don't understand the intention of the article well. Does it mean that the ICT dissolve the differences?; because they allow a certain access to the knowledge". In that sent it is used the words abilities and " power " that it seems to be a report of the African women.

Although it is certain that the movements of women were pioneer in using the electronic mail especially and in creating virtual communities that make to the speed of the informations and diffusions the intention of the use - among the sectors means and high - that are those that consented to the ICT in Latin America, - it should be similar in Africa - it was and it continues being the defense of the " rights ". Among those that are: the equality of opportunities; the equitable access; the parities in short the essential thing, to conclude with states of subjection and dominance. It is certain that the calls to the " mobilizations ", they can be by means of the communication technologies and information and / or the creation of electronic bulletins of information that as their name it indicates it: they inform. In general about the politicians of the NGO.

It is not it in the same way among the state organisms that have the functions you specify of the Woman, Secretaries, in general clerks of some Ministry, and also in general clerk of Social Action. Alone by means of convoking toward the action and the formation of groups of pressure the movements of women spread to modify you pierce of being able to. It is the active presence, the setting in scene of the body what allows to modify the traditional cultures of the inequality. The technologies are only a tool, a means of socialization, of formation, of use that don't suppress the gender iniquities.

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