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256.	Status of Research on the Information Society
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	The report give an overview of the current state of research undertaken in the area of the information society. Five essential subjects were selected for more detailed exploration: gender equality, cultural and linguistic diversity, freedom of expression, people with disabilities, and universal access and infoethics. The study was prepared by UNESCO in preparation for the World Summit on Information Society, in 2003.
257.	ICT, Gender Equality and Empowering Women
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	This essay seeks to deal with that issue, and with the gender effects of the information revolution. While obvious linkages will be mentioned, the essay seeks to go beyond the obvious to deal with some of the indirect causal paths of the information revolution on the power of women and equality between the sexes.
258.	Essentials: Information Communications Technology for Development
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	This Essentials is a practical introduction to the complex area of Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICTD). Although this Essentials is written with an eye to the future, it is grounded in the evaluative evidence and case-study research of the past. It seeks to provide the development practitioner with evidence-based insights, synthesized from across a wide range of ICTD initiatives undertaken by UNDP and partners, and presented as a selection of generic challenges and Lessons Learned.
259.	Access to Financing and ICT for Women Entrepreneurs in the UNECE region: hallenges and Good Practice
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	This report looks at womens access to financing and ICT within progress and perspectives from selected countries and sub-regions in the area covered by the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE). The publication provides a number of good practices to be considered by governments and other stakeholders.Overview. Full copy available for purchase at UN website
260.	Gendering Information & Communication Technologies: Challenges & Opportunities for Gender-Equitable Development
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	The brochure describes how engendering information and communication technology involves identifying and eliminating gender disparities in access to and use of such technology. And how it also involves adapting technology to womens needs by taking advantage of their special knowledge and strong informal networks and support systems. Outlines World Bank efforts to address gender issues in information technology projects.
261.	Women, science and technology: Measuring recent progress towards gender equality
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	Women slowly catching up among engineering graduates especially in EU-15 countries Women researchers more likely to work in sectors with lower R&D expenditure Level of education impacts differently on employment outcomes for women and men. A positive trend in education From 1998 to 2001, a growing number of women and men graduated in science, maths and computing (+25.2) as well as in engineering (+8.3 percent).
262.	Information society:promoting financial mechanisms with a gender equity perspective
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	This paper has been prepared for the Regional Workshop titled From Fringe to Center: Gender Equity in Building the Information Society, called upon by the Steering Committee of WSIS Gender Caucus. This is one of the tasks pursued by the Caucus to fulfill its strategic objective: To ensure that gender equity and women’s rights are integrated into WSIS and its subsequent processes
263.	Digital Dangers: Information & Communication Technologies and Trafficking in Women
	Tuesday, October 25, 2005  by Admin
	This discussion paper asks if new technologies are re-shaping or facilitating trafficking, and/or if the use of ICTs in trafficking will change the way we understand other issues. The paper is a joint publication of AWID and the APC WNSP. The first section of this paper lays the foundations for discussing ICTs and trafficking and defines these terms. The examples were provided by activists and advocates around the world who are working on trafficking or ICTs or on both issues.
264.	Strengthening local ICT regulatory capacities
	Tuesday, October 25, 2005  by Admin
	The first aim in capacity building is to enhance the capability of local institutions to fulfill their objectives effectively - whether those objectives are primarily developmental, managerial or commercial. Capacity building initiatives therefore have a number of different components, including partnership in: the development and support of local or regional training institutions and their staff; the design and delivery of in-country training programmes;
265.	Tanzania: cybercafe boom but govt policy holds back growth
	Tuesday, October 25, 2005  by Admin
	Tanzania: cybercafe boom but govt policy holds back growth - Tanzania has experienced a very rapid growth in cybercafes. It is unclear whether demand is mainly local or from tourists but the countrys local internet user base is growing. Government policy has been slow to encourage further investment. However the Government has an ambitious scheme to promote greater connectivity. A recent survey by Tanzanias Business Times shows that thousands of people flock into internet cafes in Dar Es Salaam everyday to surf the net and read their e-mail.
266.	ICT: National information and communications technologies policy
	Tuesday, October 25, 2005  by Admin
	Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) advances since the end of the 20th Century have led to multiple convergences of content, computing, telecommunications and broadcasting. They have brought about changes in other areas, particularly in knowledge management and human resources development. Increasing capacity of ICT has further been empowered by the growth of a global network of computer networks known as the Internet.
267.	African Response to the Information Communication Technology Revolution
	Tuesday, October 25, 2005  by Admin
	The world is going through an information technology revolution that has drastically changed many facets of the human life, from education, industry, economy, politics to entertainment. In addition, unprecedented capabilities of the information technology to process, store, refine and disseminate data, information and knowledge in a variety of ways across geographical boundaries, has dramatically changed the ways in which governments, the public and private sectors operated all over the world.
268.	Moving E-Commerce Forward in Tanzania
	Thursday, October 13, 2005  by Admin
	Moving E-Commerce Forward in Tanzania: A little over a year ago I wrote an article about various benefits of the internet that Tanzanians miss out on. Apart from some technological limitations, the main problem, as I saw it, was the lack of a credit system enabling Tanzanians to buy online. Hand in hand was the difficulty for Tanzanian businesses to make money by selling goods and services online.
269.	CIPESA Media Awards
	Wednesday, October 12, 2005  by Admin
	CIPESA has organized a competition to full time and freelance journalists running between September 1st and December 31st 2005. The awards are intended to stimulate interest among the media in covering internatinal ICT policy issues.
270.	ICANN, Internet governance and Africa
	Wednesday, October 12, 2005  by Admin
	The broader topic of Internet governance had been put on the public agenda in the context of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) 2003 and in preparation of the second phase of WSIS, workshops and discussions on Internet governance have been held to stimulate interest and gain more input from African stakeholders. This brief paper explains the current status and key points of the discussion on ICANN and Internet governance as relevant to Africa.
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