National ICT Policies and Gender Equality: Regional Perspective - Asia

National ICT Policies and Gender Equality: Regional Perspective - Asia Author: Chat Ramilo © United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, 2002, 15 pages NationalICTPolicy_Gender.PDF — PDF document, 50Kb http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/ict2002/reports/Paper-CRamilo.PDF

This paper prepared for the Expert Group Meeting on “Information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women” in Seoul, Republic of Korea from 11 to 14 November 2002, contains suggestions from the Asian perspective about possible points of intervention from which to build up the gender and ICT agenda in the national policy terrain, including developing gender and ICT indicators, integrating gender analysis in national ICT policy frameworks and policies, building government’s commitment to the advancement of women for their ICT platform, and promoting gender responsive e-governance.