This strategy of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has the goal to assist developing countries in harnessing the potentials of ICT to contribute towards reducing the social divide, improving the quality life, promoting universal access and facilitating entry into the information society. In all actions, take into account the needs of rural, isolated and poorly served areas and people with special needs (Gender, Youths and Indigenous People).

Cet ouvrage publié par ENDA, présente les résultats d'une recherche menée pendant près de deux ans dans six pays (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Mali, Mauritanie et Sénégal), avec l'appui du Centre de Recherches pour le Développement International (Canada). Les résultats de recherche attestent que les femmes ont globalement un tiers de chance en moins que les hommes de bénéficier des avantages de la société de l'information en Afrique francophone.

This study examines the role of nontraditional educational pathways in preparing women and underrepresented minorities for the information technology (IT) workforce. It was produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology.

Le projet ADA (du nom d'Ada Lovelace, première femme programmeuse en informatique) vise la création d'un réseau d'échange, de réflexion et d'action sur le thème des femmes et des NTIC.

APC Women's Networking Support Programme is a global network of women who support women networking for social change and women's empowerment, through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It promotes gender equality in the design, development, implementation, access to and use of ICTs and in the policy decisions and frameworks that regulate them. WNSP is part of the Association for Progressive Communications, an international network of civil society organizations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use ICTs, including the Internet.

APC-Africa-Women is a network of organisations and individuals working to empower African women's organisations to access and use ICTs for women's empowerment. APC-Africa-Women is the regional network of the Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme.

AWORC is an Internet-based women's information service and network in Asia. It is an initiative geared towards developing cooperative approaches and partnerships in increasing access and exploring applications of new information and communication technologies for women's empowerment.

The Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT), established at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in July 1998, is dedicated to providing global leadership in achieving women's full participation in all aspects of information technology (IT). The Center's award-winning web site provides women-related resources in many fields.

Computers for Africa is a non-profit organization which has for a mission to reduce social disparities in Africa by helping bridge the digital divide. Its goal is to mobilize North America?s surplus technology to equip organizations that serve the underprivileged of Africa. CFA refurbishes used computers, networks them, and ships ready-to-set-up labs to non-profit organizations in Africa. CFA focuses on the most disadvantaged groups, generally youth and women.

Datamation Foundation is a nonprofit organization devoted to creating employment opportunities, ending hunger and extreme poverty, achieving universal primary education, improving public health, ensuring environmental sustainability and promoting gender equality in economically disadvantaged rural India through ICT solutions such as, Community Multi-Media Centers (CMCs) and Information Kiosks (IKs).

eHomemakers.net is a Malaysian Mothers for Mothers network. Among its aims: (i)to use ICT to build cyber communities and networking opportunities for homeworkers and teleworkers; (ii) to educate women to excel in areas in which they are skilled through the use of ICT, and (iii) to encourage women to establish home-based entrepreneurship by providing information on decision-making, starting out and maintaining home based income-generating solutions.

eLIT's mission is to provide access to information and tools of economic independence to socially and economically disadvantaged women and children worldwide. eLIT believes that access to and proficiency in computer skills can unlock educational and economic opportunities for women and help create significantly brighter future for their children.

Famafrique est un espace de communication et d'information pour les femmes d'Afrique francophone qui agissent pour la promotion du développement durable, l'égalité de genres et la paix. Ce site a été créé dans le cadre du projet "Inforoutes au féminin pour l'Afrique francophone". Il vise à renforcer la visibilité et les capacités d'action des organisations de femmes de la sous région et à assurer que les contributions et les principales informations utiles aux femmes du monde francophone, notamment en Afrique, soient disponibles en français sur Internet.

Founded in 1996, the Fantsuam Foundation is a non profit organization aimed at pioneering gender- and youth-focused micro finance and ICT services, and promoting development in rural communities of Nigeria.

Overview report by Anita Gurumurthy (PDF) New technologies in the information and communications arena, especially the Internet, have been seen as ushering in a new age. The dramatic positive changes brought in by these information and communication technologies (ICTs), however, have not touched all of humanity. Existing power relations in society determine the enjoyment of benefits from ICTs; hence these technologies are not gender neutral. The important questions are: who benefits from ICTs? Who is dictating the course of ICTs? Is it possible to harness ICTs to serve larger goals of equality and justice? Central to these is the issue of gender and women?s equal right to access, use and shape ICTs.

This site is a WomenWatch feature to mark the World Summit on the Information Society 2005. WomenWatch is a central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system. Advocacy for women's improved access to ICT and attention to gender perspectives in the development and use of ICT has significantly increased in the United Nations in the context of preparations for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). WomenWatch compiled an updated shortlist of online resources on Gender and ICT in the UN System.

IMFUNDO is the team within the UK Department for Indternation Development (DFID), which creates partnerships to deliver ICT-based activities supporting gender equiality and universal primary education in sub-Saharan Africa.

To raise awareness of gender and ICT issues, the World Bank started the Gender and ICTs seminars in 2000. Through this program, practitioners, policy-makers, and academics are invited to discuss the impact of ICT on gender relations, and ways ICT can be used to overcome gender inequalities. This page provides presentation materials from the seminars, including links to video recordings.

Projet pour l'égalité des chances, Interface3 vise à lutter contre la qualification inadaptée de nombreuses femmes dans la nouvelle économie, notamment en leur proposant des formations qui leur ouvrent l'accès aux NTIC.

IWTC is an international non-governmental organization established in l976. IWTC provides communication, information, education, and organizing support services to women's organizations and community groups working to improve the lives of low-income women, particularly in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

The Online Policy Group (OPG) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to online policy research, outreach, and action on issues such as access, privacy, digital defamation, and the digital divide. Additionally, it focuses on Internet participants' civil liberties and human rights, like access, privacy, safety, and serving schools, libraries, disabled, elderly, youth, women, and sexual, gender, and ethnic minorities.

Research paper by Sophia Huyerand Tatjana Sikoska. The continuous develompent of new technologies and their application to economic, political and social processes is creating new opportunities that could enhance the equlity of human life. New types of economic and employment opportunities i.e., e-commerce; new types of education modalities, such as distance learning and on-line training; possibilites to access institutions of governance using on-line access to information; are just few of the opportunities emerging as a result of the use and application of ICTs in development.

For a long time there has been a concern that women are excluded from computers and thus from the information society. Still, women are relatively absent from computer science and the design of ICT products. This website provides the results of a major European project conducted during 2000-3 that analysed 30 such initiatives and related processes of inclusion.

The UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology is an innovative centre set up to complement the Government?s 10 year investment framework for Science and Innovation. It is the mission of the UKRC to establish a dynamic centre that provides accessible, high quality information and advisory services to industry, academia, professional institutes, education and Research Councils within the SET and built environment professions, whilst supporting women entering and progressing in SET careers.

Women's Voices is part of the international Women's Information and Communications Technology (WICT) project which works with poor urban women in Kenya, Peru and Zimbabwe by supporting their existing communication skills. The women in each country received brief training in video use before taking control in using it to reach, inform and influence those who have the power to affect their lives.