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    Some Indicators of the Impact of our Work supported by IDRC
    (2009-09)
    The paper outlines some programming impacts of IDRC support and assistance, in creation of and implementation of ICT policy. IT for Change (ITfC) advances policy inclusion for the global digital divide. New ICTs make possible decentralized curriculum design and development, and creation of teacher peer networks for professional development. Much work has been done to build networks with educationists, evolving the discourse on ICTs and gender inclusion, and frameworks for ICT’s in citizenship and governance. Global policy circles need to bring attention back to issues of social policy and inclusion, and the perspective of 'ICTs as public good.'
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    ICTs in Schools Policy Advocacy Story: IT for Change
    (2009)
    Early efforts to set the direction regarding equity and social justice in education and ICTs were a critical step forward. Substantive contributions for new policy in India were made by eminent educationists led by IT for Change (ITfC) on the issue. ITfC collated existing knowledge on the use of ICTs in Indian school education systems, including the National Curricular frameworks, studies on past ICT in schools programs, and also studied similar policies and programs across the world.
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    Outcome mapping learning community : newsletter no. 2, 2009
    (ODI, London, GB, 2009) Cardoso, Eva; Hearn, Simon
    This issue presents the experiences of three organizations as they reflect on the applicability of Outcome Mapping (OM) within their contexts: the work of the PAN Localization project in developing a customized version of the OM toolkit specifically for incorporating gender sensitivity; how Plan UK is using and adapting OM to engage young people in the design of their governance programme; and from PSO, an association of Dutch development organizations, describing how and why OM is gaining increasing interest among these organizations. Resources from the community library are highlighted, as well as community news.
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    Global Communications Newsletter, October 2010
    (IEEE Communications Society, 2010) Bregni, Stefano
    Broadband Internet should be considered an indispensable service to an information-driven society. This newsletter provides topical information, events and effects of ICTs in development. More specifically in this issue: the FCC plan to increase faster web access and innovation in telecommunications, making connectivity available to poor and rural communities; the iREACH rural empowerment programme in Cambodia; and workshops and conferences in Lebanon and India.
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    How iREACH has contributed to local communities
    (Informatics for Rural Empowerment and Community Health (iREACH), KH, 2009) Grunfeld, Helena; Hak, Sokleap; Pin, Tara
    The Informatics for Rural Empowerment and Community Health (iREACH), an ICT4D pilot project in Cambodia funded by International Development Research Center (IDRC), started in 2006. Using primary data from field research and secondary data from desk studies, the paper reports on whether and how iREACH has contributed to capabilities, empowerment, and sustainability (CES). The findings suggest iREACH has propelled communities along the CES virtuous spiral by contributing to capabilities in education, health, agriculture, and community cooperation. It has had an empowering influence particularly for women, who are now more involved in community activities. Community sustainability has improved through better farming skills.
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    i4d (information for development) : gender and ICTs, vol. VII no. 7, July-September 2009
    (Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies, 2009) Gupta, Ravi
    i4d contains articles, case studies and essays on the theme of ‘ICT for development’ (ICT4D) and related issues. The articles in this issue provide new ideas regarding gender and technology, covering topics such as the ‘Networking for Success’ project, initiated to train Nigerian women activists in use of web 2.0 tools; Gender empowerment and ICT4D in relation to Informatics for Rural Empowerment and Community Health (iREACH); ICTs and illiteracy eradication; alongside many other ICT projects aimed at overcoming the digital divide and securing sustainable livelihoods through ICT4D.
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    Outcome mapping learning community : newsletter no. 1, 2009
    (ODI, London, GB, 2009) Cardoso, Eva; Hearn, Simon
    The Outcome Mapping Learning Community is a global group of over 1200 individuals dedicated to collective learning and sharing of knowledge around Outcome Mapping (OM). The focus of this issue is complementary approaches and tools for OM. The newsletter also shares new resources and upcoming events - in particular the 2nd Outcome Mapping Users Conference in Uruguay, organized by the Latin America Centre for Outcome Mapping (CLAMA). Articles in the issue demonstrate a number of OM approaches, experiences, and tools that have been tried and tested by members of the OM community.
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    iREACH : lessons from a community owned ICT network in Cambodia
    (Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA , US, 2011) Grunfeld, Helena; Siochrú, Seán Ó; Unger, Brian; Im, Sarun
    The Informatics for Rural Empowerment and Community Health (iREACH) project in Cambodia invited community members to become active participants in the production of the ICT environment, including the physical infrastructure, management, training, capacity building, content development and use. Two pilot community-owned networks in poor rural areas comprise both a cluster of local telecentres (10 in each area) and a mini-telecoms enterprise run by the communities. The paper describes the iREACH approach which focuses on capacity building in all aspects associated with operating a telecommunications business. Gender equality, livelihood matters, and governance issues also characterise the project.
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    Research support project on getting sex workers' voices heard in Asia
    (Tactical Tech, 2009) Tactical Tech
    This report details the activities, outputs and findings of a one year preparatory research support project carried out with partners in Cambodia and India to explore how digital advocacy technologies can be used to help sex worker's voices impact on policy in Asia.
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    De la fracture numérique aux perspectives numériques : l'observatoire des info-états au service du développement
    (Claude-Yves Charron, Montreal, QC, CA, 2005) Adam, Lishan; Calovski, Dimo; Dryburgh, Heather; Ertl, Heidi; Sciadas, George
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    Homeworkers and ICTs : South-East Asia; regional report
    (eHomemakers (Corpcom Services Sdn Bhd), MY, 2006) Chong Sheau Ching; Czarina Saloma; Tham Lai Chun; Wong Peck Lin; Sumathi Dilling
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    Reflections about media, violence, identity and representation through an 'information society' lens
    (IT for Change, Bangalore, IN, 2009) IT for Change
    By placing the individual at the centre, new media promotes a version of participation that is commodified and conformist, where content democratization or plurality also means a coopted or controlled 'public'. Under the mask of multiplicity, there is a persistence of gender stereotypes and misogyny. The presentation deconstructs virtual reality and digital presence in terms of gender, and asks: What institutional frameworks are necessary to address the transnational corporate control of the media and public sphere?
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    Empowerment approach to gender equality in the information society : regional analyses from Asia
    (IT for Change, Bangalore, IN, 2008) Gurumurthy, Anita; Singh, Parminder Jeet; Kovacs, Anja
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    Gender equality through ICT access and appropriation : taking a rights-based approach
    (IT for Change, Bangalore, IN, 2008) Gurumurthy, Anita
    This paper explores the meanings of women’s empowerment and gender equality in the information society, looking at the opportunity for progressive change and critically unpacking the Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) discourse on gender and development. It also seeks to articulate a rights-based framework to policy and action that takes on the specific question of what models of access and connectivity will work for the marginalised peoples and countries, in a manner that promotes gender justice. The paper was written for the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN-GAID) Annual Meeting and Global Forum 2008.
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    Violence against women via cyberspace
    (Economic & political weekly, Mumbai, IN, 2009) Gurumurthy, Anita; Menon, Niveditha
    An important theme at the consultation reported on in this article, was the construction of identities in cyberspace, and the ways in which they are implicated in the perpetration of violence against women, where new technologies enable a transgression of the boundaries of “physical” or “real” identities. Also, in the Indian context, images on the internet or through mobile telephones are used by stalkers to denigrate, intimidate and harass women on- and off-line. The consultation emphasized the urgency of building a wider dialogue around the interface of technology with culture, institutions of family and marriage, sexuality, body, privacy, and freedom of expression.
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    Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender, Development and Information Society Policies : workshop report
    (IT for Change, Bangalore, IN, 2007) IT for Change; ISIS International, Manila; Association for Progressive Communications; International Women's Tribune Centre
    The network is a Community of Expertise under the United Nations Global Alliance on ICTs for Development (UNGAID), with the aim of studying intersecting themes of Gender, Development and Information Society Policies, towards furthering policy processes at local, national and global levels. Five theme-based panels were followed by the presentation of a framework for policy analysis, an open session for reflection on research imperatives and advocacy strategies, and a panel on global feminist collaboration for advocacy. The report provides a synthesis of key insights from the strategy planning workshop, as well as a summary of presentations and discussions.
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    Locating gender in ICTD projects : five cases from India
    (IT for Change, Bangalore, IN, 2008) IT for Change
    Women’s participation is considered an essential element in development planning and decision-making as a way to confront power relations. ICTs may contain revolutionary opportunities to transform existing institutions, yet it is important to interrogate how ICTs are, or are not, ‘empowering’ individuals and groups within the information society context. This detailed study examines five diverse ICTD initiatives in India. There is clear recognition that information is empowering in its very nature, and is a basic right of the people, and therefore, project design focused on improving community access to, use of, and control over information is a central goal.
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    Mahiti Manthana : a platform for new information and communication processes
    (IT for Change, Bangalore, IN, 2007) IT for Change
    The presentation focuses on the empowerment of the poorest women in India. The Mahila Samakhya (MSK) program works for the education and empowerment of women in rural areas, particularly of women from socially and economically marginalised groups, by organizing women through the idea of sanghas. Sangha is a Sanskrit word meaning "association", "assembly", "company" or "community. Part of the MSK strategy is to distribute radios to sanghas, where information and appropriate technologies address women’s constraints and facilitate linkages with public institutions. Mahiti Manthana was a joint initiative of Prakriye and Mahila Samakhya Karnataka.
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    Examining the PC4D approach : redeeming ICTs in development
    (Isis International, Quezon City, PH, 2008) Singh, Parminder Jeet
    As more bottom-up communication becomes possible, and more open and participatory institutional designs are enabled, ICTs can change the relationships and hierarchies around information and communication processes. An appropriate ‘information society framework’ will situate the analysis of new ICT-related developments in the shifting structural/ institutional landscape, which is important to understand and theorize about, in order to be able to empower grassroots spaces and infiltrate the more traditional development processes of education, training and capacity building. The article focuses on the uses of a new theoretical framework for ICTD: People’s Communications for Development (PC4D).