Women and ICT: Creating Global Transformation

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Women and ICT Creating Global Transformation June
12 15, 2005 Baltimore, USA
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The APC WNSP developed GEM to facilitate the
process of learning about using ICTs for gender
equality and womens empowerment and to
evaluate how ICTs are contributing to change in
women's condition of discrimination, disadvantage
and inequality.
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• community telecentres
• education and training initiatives for women
• employment projects
• networking and community building projects
• advancement of womens rights through women's
  information activities and advocacy campaigns on
  a range of womens issues

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GEM was used to evaluate how and to what extent
ICT tools influenced the networking process at
national, regional and international level, and
partnerships-building to foster gender
mainstreaming in local governance.
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Gender and ICT Indicators Quantitative
indicators of access and participation have been
the easiest to determine and collect.
Qualitative indicators such as roles,
participation in decision-making bodies, womens
senses of empowerment more vividly illustrated
the relationship of ICT interventions and womens
empowerment.
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• Focus on policy change at national or local
  context and inform our advocacy with knowledge
  from our practice

• Promote acceptance of gender equality and womens
  empowerment goals in the ICT for development arena

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• Interpret our experiences collectively using
  commonly developed and shared benchmarks and
  indicators for gender equality in ICT

• Find evidence of change in gender roles and
  relations and create models to achieve this
  change
• Innovate continuously and create the conditions
  for people and communities to shape their use of
  technologies

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