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APPENDIX D RECOMMENDED RESOURCE LIST relating to ICT and African Women’s Development for the paper The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in the Development of African Women

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Here we present useful resources for further research. We have included articles, training resources, websites, African and global organizations and networks, mailing lists and e-newsletters.

Articles Huyer, Sophia and Sikoska, Tatjana. Overcoming the Gender Digital Divide – Understanding ICTs and their potential for the empowerment of Women. Synthesis Paper, Virtual Seminar Series on Gender and ICTs. http://www.un-instraw.org/docs/gender_and_ict/Synthesis_Paper.pdf Jorge, Sonia Nunes. The Economics of ICTs – Challenges and Practical Strategies of ICT use for Women’s Economic Empowerment. United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) Expert Group Meeting on “Information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women” Seoul, Republic of Korea 11 to 14 November 2002. http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/ict2002/reports/Paper%20by%20Sonia %20Jorge.pdf Primo, Natasha. Gender Issues in the Information Society. A Background paper in the context of preparations for the World Summit on the Information Society.

UNESCO, 2003. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=12847&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SEC TION=201 Hafkin, Nancy. Gender Issues in ICT Policy in Developing Countries : An Overview.

United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) Expert Group Meeting on “Information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women” Seoul, Republic of Korea 11 to 14 November 2002. http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/ict2002/ reports/Paper-NHafkin.PDF

Information and Communication Technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women. Report on the expert group meeting, Seoul, South Korea, 11-14 November 2002. United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/ict2002/ Seye-Sylla, Fatimata. ICTs as an instrument for Participation: The Regional Perspective from Africa, Examples of Internet use at a Grassroots Level. United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) Expert Group Meeting on “Information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women” Seoul, Republic of Korea 11 to 14 November 2002. http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/ict2002/reports/Paper%20by%20Seye %20Sylla.PDF World Economic Forum-NEPAD E-Africa Commission E-Readiness Policy Programme Building capacity to narrow the digital divide in Africa from within.

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http://www.bridges.org ICTs in Africa: A Status Report by Mike Jensen

http://www.weforum.org/ Isaaks, Shafika. IT’s Hot for Girls! ICTs as an instrument in advancing girls’ and women’s capabilities in school education in Africa. United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) Expert Group Meeting on “Information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women” Seoul, Republic of Korea 11 to 14 November 2002. http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/ict2002/reports/Paper%20by%20Isaaks 2.PDF ICTs for Social Change – APC Women’s Networking Support Programme http://www.apcwomen.org/gem/printer/icts.htm Hafkin, nancy and Taggart, Nancy. Gender, Information Technology, and Developing Countries: An Analytic Study

http://www.usaid.gov/wid/pubs/it01.htm Hafkin, Nancy. Are ICTs gender-neutral? A gender analysis of six case studies of multi-donor ICT projects.

http://un-instraw.org/en/research/gender_and_ict/vss_1.html Kole, Ellen and Okello, Dorothy. “African Women Speak Out on the Internet.” http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekole/public/endrapafrinh.html From Beijing to Beijing+5, African Women take over ICTs Research report presented by APC-Africa-Women with the support of WomenAction.

1999. http://flamme.org/documents/apcresearch.htm Kole, Ellen. Internet Information for African women’s Empowerment. http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekole/public/VIIOpaper.html An Integrated approach to human resource development in ICTs to support women in Africa. A discussion paper for the IDRC/ACACIA workshop on Human Resource Development for ICTs Applications in Africa, 16-17 November 1998, Nairobi, Kenya http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekole/public/idrchrd.html Rathgeber, Eva M and Ofwona Adera, Edith. (eds) Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa. IDRC 2000,

http://www.idrc.ca/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=6&Product_ID=471&CAT ID=15#toc NET GAINS: African Women take Stock of Information and Communication Technologies.

http://www2.womensnet.org.za/beijing5/news2/show.cfm?news2_id =120 Marcelle, Gillian M. Transforming Information and Communication Technologies for Gender Equality. Gender in Development Monograph Series #9, UNDP 2002.

http://www.undp.org/gender/resources/monograph.html Engendering ICT Policies: Guidelines for Action - African Information Society 3

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http://www.whrnet.org/icts/book/index.html Rowing Upstream – Snapshots of Pioneers in the Information Age in Africa

http://www.piac.org/rowing_upstream/index.html

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Training Resources ICT Policy for Civil Society Training Pack

http://www.apc.org/english/capacity/policy/curriculum.shtml The ICT Policy for Civil Society training course builds the capacity of civil society organisations to understand policy and regulation related to information and communication technologies (ICT) so that they can begin to engage and influence policy processes affecting ICT adoption and implementation at national, regional and global levels.

Gender Evaluation Methodology [Portuguese and Spanish]

http://www.apcwomen.org/gem GEM is an evaluation tool to facilitate the process of learning about using information and communication technologies for gender equality. GEM is a guide to integrating gender analysis into evaluations of initiatives that use Information and Communication Technologies for social change. It provides a means for determining whether ICTs are really improving women’s lives and gender relations, as well as promoting positive change at the individual, institutional, community and broader social levels.

Women’s Online Resource Centre website

http://www.apc.org/worc/ The Women's Online Resource Centre (WORC) is a clearinghouse of gender-aware training materials in the area of information and communication technology (ICT) and in development in general. The materials included in the WORC have womenfocussed content and are targeted at both trainers and end users. The WORC is a project of the Women's Networking Support Program, a content partner to ItrainOnline.

A Structured Multimedia Training Kit [French and Spanish]

http://www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/mmtk/ The MMTK aims to promote and support linkages between new and traditional media for development through a structured set of materials.

Resources for Women – Itrainonline [French and Spanish]

http://www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/women/index.shtml This section of the ItrainOnline resources is aimed at both trainers and end users offers links to resources specifically targeted at women.

The Internet: Getting Connected. http://web.uct.ac.za/org/agi/pubs/getcon1.htm A tool to encourage gender activists, based in women's organisations to make effective use of the Internet.

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Websites relating to women and ICTs Flamme [English and French]

http://www.flamme.org/ The Flamme project ran from July 1999 - June 2000 and provided women and women's NGOs in Africa with information about the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action assessment process in Africa, information about the UN and regional process, NGOs input and linkages with other Regional review processes. The Flame Project was a joint initiative of APC-Africa-Women and The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET).

NGO Gender Strategies Working Group

http://www.genderit.org Formed as part of the Civil Society Co-ordinating Group during the First PrepCom in Geneva in July 2002, the NGO Gender Strategies Group is a formation of women's information and communication organisations that have come together to develop strategies for gender advocacy within the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) context. Their tasks are: to raise awareness around the issues and processes at the WSIS, to encourage women's participation at all levels of WSIS discussions, to conduct capacity-building training, and to conduct a process of network-building in order to ensure links between national, sub-regional, regional and international WSIS initiatives.

World Summit on the Information Society Gender Caucus

http://www.genderwsis.org Formed during the African Regional meeting in Bamako in May 2002, the focus of the WSIS Gender Caucus is to develop women's position on the Information Society and to lobby in the WSIS process. The WSIS gender caucus is a multi-stakeholder group consisting of women and men from national governments, civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations, the private sector and the United Nations system. The strategic objective of the caucus is to ensure that gender equality and women's rights are integrated into WSIS and its outcome processes.

GAINS: Gender Awareness Information and Networking System (UNINSTRAW) [French and Spanish] http://www.un-instraw.org/en/ INSTRAW works towards gender equality and the empowerment of women through its Gender Awareness Information and Networking System (GAINS), an internetbased research and training environment driven by a worldwide network. By facilitating collaborative work it seeks to create and share knowledge to improve development policy and practice.

ITU Task Force on Gender Issues [French and Spanish] http://www.itu.int/gender/index.html The ITU recognizes that society as a whole will benefit from equal participation of women and men in policy and decision-making and from equal access to communications services. Creating telecommunications policies and human resources development programmes targeted at women can help alleviate poverty of women and their families. Additionally, by leveraging the skills of women, developing countries can significantly add to the pool of talent that will be needed in the new information society.

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World Bank: Gender and the Digital Divide Resource Centre http://www.worldbank.org/gender/digitaldivide/digitaldividelinks.htm This site includes links to events, networks, articles and studies.

WomenWatch

http://www.un.org/womenwatch

The UN Internet gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women.

WomenAction

http://www.womenaction.org

WomenAction is a Global information, communication and media network that enables NGOs to actively engage in the Beijing+5 review process with the longterm goal of women’s empowerment, with a special focus on women and the media.

Women’s Human Rights Net

http://www.whrnet.org

Founded in 1997, WHRnet aims to provide reliable, comprehensive, and timely information and analyses on women's human rights in English, Spanish and French.

WHRnet updates readers on women's human rights issues and policy developments globally and provides information and analyses that support advocacy actions. A team of regionally based content specialists provides regular News, Interviews, Perspectives, Alert and Campaign information, and Web Highlights.

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Organisations and Networks Africa APC-Africa-Women

http://www.apcafricawomen.org

APC-Africa-Women is a network of organisations and individuals that work to empower African women's organisations to access and use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for equality and development. APC-AfricaWomen is the Africa regional programme of APC's Women's Networking Support Programme. Working with women in Africa and all over the world, APC-AfricaWomen focuses on African women's empowerment through information facilitation, regional support, lobbying and advocating around gender and ICTs, delivering ICT training, conducting research into gender and ICTs and participating in regional and global events.

Email: Africa@apcwomen.org African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) [English and French]

http://www.femnet.or.ke FEMNET aims to strengthen the role and contribution of African NGO's focussing on women's development equality and other human rights, through communications, networking, training and advocacy.

Email: admin@femnet.or.ke African Centre for Gender and Development [English and French]

http://www.uneca.org/fr/acgd/en/1024x768/acgd.htm The African Center for Gender and Development (ACGD), previously known as the African Center for Women (ACW) is a division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Established in 1975, the ACGD is the regional structure that deals with gender issues and the advancement of women within the United Nations system in Africa. In this capacity, it works in conjunction with national, sub-regional and regional structures engaged in the advancement of women and gender equality.

Abantu for Development http://www.abantu.org ABANTU for Development is an international non-governmental organisation established in 1991. ABANTU means people in different languages from 19 African countries and symbolises our people-centred philosophy. The focus of our work is on training providing information and advice on mobilising resources towards sustainable development in Africa.

Contact: rowa@abantu.org Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)

http://www.wougnet.org

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Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) is a non-governmental organisation initiated in May 2000 by several women's organisations in Uganda to develop the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively.

Contact: info@wougnet.org ACWICT – African Centre for Women, Information & Communications Technology http://www.acwict.or.ke The African Centre for Women, Information and Communications Technology (ACWICT), is a not for profit non-governmental organization incorporated in Kenya.

The Mission is to promote access to and effective use of ICTs among women in the African region as well as explore opportunities for harnessing the technology to work as a tool for their social, economic, political advancement.

Contact: information@acwict.or.ke Isis-WICCE

http://www.isis.or.ug Isis-WICCE relocated to Kampala, Uganda at the end of 1993 with an objective of tapping African women’s ideas, views and problems and share the information with women at the international level. Isis-WICCE exists to promote Justice, and empowerment of women globally through documenting violations of womens rights and facilitating the exchange of information and skills, to strengthen women's capacities, potential, and visibility.

Contact: isis@starcom.co.ug Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network

http://www.zwrcn.org.zw The Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network is a non-governmental organization working in the gender and development field. ZWRCN’s core business is the gathering, interpreting, publishing and disseminating rare and life-changing information in order to allow women make informed choices about their lives and influence government to implement gender sensitive policies.

Contact: zwrcn@zwrcn.org.zw Womens’Net

http://www.womensnet.org.za Women'sNet is a vibrant and innovative networking support program designed to enable South African women to use the Internet to find the people, issues, resources and tools needed for women's social activism.

Email: women@womensnet.org.za Global WomensHub http://www.womenshub.net/ APC Women’s Networking Support Programme

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The APC WNSP is a network of over 100 women from 30 countries who support women networking for social change and gender justice, through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Our approach in gender and ICT work involves an understanding of power relations in society. This recognition includes an awareness of the unequal power relations between women and men, north and south, rich and poor, urban and rural, connected and unconnected - in local communities, in sovereign countries, and globally. WNSP works to transform these relations of inequality, with the full knowledge that ICTs can be used to either exacerbate or transform unequal power relations. Part of this recognition includes an awareness of the limits of ICTs - that in and of themselves, ICTs cannot create gender equality, or end poverty, but that they can be tools for social action and positive social change.

Contact: karenb@apcwomen.org

International Women’s Tribune Centre http://www.iwtc.org The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international nongovernmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a philosophical commitment to empowering people and building communities, IWTC provides communication, information, education, and organizing support services to women's organizations and community groups working to improve the lives of women, particularly low-income women, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

Contact: iwtc@iwtc.org

Isis-International http://www.isiswomen.org A feminist NGO dedicated to women’s information and communication needs. Isis-International documents ideas and visions, creats channels to communicate, collects and moves information, networks and builds links.

Isis-International focuses on those advancing women’s rights, leadership and empowerment in Asia and the Pacific. With connections in over 150 countries, they also keep up with changing trends and analyses concerning women worldwide.

Contact: admin@isiswomen.org

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Mailing lists and e-newsletters Gender in Africa Information Network GAIN is an electronic mailing list focussing on sharing gender justice information in Africa.

Contact: Africa@apcwomen.org NGO Gender Strategies Working Group The NGO Gender Strategies Group is a formation of women's information and communication organisations that have come together to develop strategies for gender advocacy within the WSIS context Contact: karenb@apcwomen.org WSIS Gender Caucus The WSIS gender caucus is a multi-stakeholder group consisting of women and men from national governments, civil society organisations, nongovernmentalorganisations, the private sector and the United Nations system. The strategic objective of the caucus is to ensure that gender equality and women's rights are integrated into WSIS and its outcome processes.

Contact: coordinator@genderwsis.org WOUGNET-L (Women of Uganda List) The WOUGNET mailing list is a place to share news, information and activities on women related issues in Uganda. Discussion and debate are encouraged.

Contact info@wougnet.org E-Newsletters PULA an e-newsletter on African Women and ICTs A newsletter of the Association for Progressive Communications Africa Women (APC-Africa-Women). Pula aims to promote and profile the work and activities of women’s ICT initiatives in Africa and to act as a communicative tool to link women to each other and to initiatives and opportunities.

Contact: Africa@apcwomen.org WOUGNET Update Newsletter A list of what's new at the Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) Website. To subscribe/unsubscribe to the WOUGNET Update Newsletter, send a message to wougnet-update-request@wougnet.org with the following command in the subject or body of your message: subscribe/unsubscribe Women’sNet_News A list of the information added to the Women'sNet website over the last week. To subscribe please send an email message to listproc@sn.apc.org with the message Join, the subject line blank and in the message box type:subscribe womensnet_news Tam-Tam Monthly newsletter of AMARC Africa Contact comofficer@global.co.za.

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Contact: khiggs@apc.org Africa ICT Policy Monitor Project Newsletter - Chakula http://africa.rights.apc.org/newsletter.shtml

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