| World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters (AMARC): AMARC, an international non-governmental
organization (NGO) with 3000 members in 106 countries, supports the
community radio movement. AMARC’s Women’s International Network (WIN)
encourages women’s participation in community radio and works for women’s
right to communicate (www.amarc.org).
Association for Progressive
Communication (APC) Women’s Programme: Founded
in 1993, the APC Women’s Programme aims to respond to gender inequities
in communications (www.gn.apc.org/apcwomen).
Gender Awareness Information and
Networking System (GAINS): Founded by
INSTRAW in 2000, GAINS is a gender awareness site — one area being ICTs.
GAINS intends to develop a network of ICT specialists and regional and
national focal points for gender mainstreaming in ICT development projects
(www.un-instraw-gains.org).
ISIS International:
Formed in 1974, ISIS is a “feminist NGO dedicated to women’s
information and communication needs” (www.isiswomen.org).
International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) — Working Group on Gender Issues:
The website of this Working Group includes its history and
background, a calendar of events, list of members, full-text ITU
documents, and links to organizations involved in ICTs and gender (www.itu.int/ITU–D/gender/).
The Once and Future Action
Network (OFAN): OFAN is an
international consortium of gender, science and technology organizations
which calls attention to women’s contribution to people-centred and
environmentally sustainable approaches to science and technology (www.wigsat.org/ofan/ofan.html). |
World Bank Gender Stats:
The World Bank Gender Stats database includes international
comparisons on gender from the World Development Indicators in addition to
country-specific gender profiles, basic demographic data, population
dynamics, labour force structure, education and health information (http://genderstats.worldbank.org/menu.asp).
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) INFO 21: The UNDP
site on information and communications technologies for development
includes information on UDNP projects and initiatives, resources for ICT
and development, and a Web page on gender (www.undp.org/info21).
WomenAction2000:
The WomenAction website, a coalition of women’s media networks on
Beijing Plus Five activities and follow-up, has links to many global and
regional websites (www.womenaction.org).
Women’s Human Rights Net
(Whrnet): Whrnet is a collaborative
information communication technology project developed by an international
coalition of women’s organizations to strengthen advocacy for women’s
human rights through the effective utilization of information and
communication technologies. The site includes access to ICTs as a human
rights issue (www.whrnet.org).
Women, Ink:
With more than 300 women and development publications written by,
for and with women worldwide the Women, Ink website has a selection of
writing on gender and technology (www.womenink.org).
WomenWatch:
This website project includes a gateway to UN-system resources on
gender. It also provides support to global and regional networks working
on gender and IT-related issues, including WomenAction2000 (www.un.org/womenwatch). |
