United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women

Online discussion
Information and communication technologies and their impact on
and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women
17 June to 19 July 2002

 

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To register, please send an e-mail to Santiago Martinez de Orense (martinez-orense@un.org) requesting to be registered. You will then receive a login name and a password to join the discussion.

For any technical problems, please contact Santiago Martinez de Orense.

The purpose of the online discussion is to gather good practices and case studies of how ICT are indeed a tool for promoting gender equality. Your contributions will feed into the background information provided to a group of experts that will gather in the Republic of Korea in November 2002 for a meeting organized by DAW, in collaboration with ITU and the UN ICT Task Force Secretariat.  The online discussion and the Expert Group Meeting are part of the preparatory process for the 47th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in March 2003.  Your input will also be a critical contribution to our knowledge base on ICT as a tool for gender-sensitive development.

We encourage you to share your ideas and observations and help structure debate and policy in this area.

The ground rules are the following:
Messages must:

  • Be identifiable by adding the name, organization (if any) and country (for DAW) record keeping and statistical purposes) of the writer at the end of the message

  • Refer to the subject of the week;

  • Be posted, not sent to the moderator or coordinator via e-mail;

  • Be in English;

  • Not contain insulting language;

  • Not be anonymous;

  • Not exceed three paragraphs or half of a printed page;

  • Not have attachments, all text has to be in body of the posted message.
Division for the Advancement of Women -- DAW
Website: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations