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Gloria Bonder Cátedra UNESCO www.catunescomujer.org

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Equipping the Information Society with Gender Equality


ICTs: A New Paradigm

Create new meanings and senses of reality, processes of subjectivization, notions of space, time, future, power, pleasure.

Generate new forms of production and work.

Express hegemonic economic and political interests, but also allow the growth of previously unseen personal and social development processes.


Information / Knowledge-based

Society

Unknown Areas /

Dangerous Areas

Exclusive Areas

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Social Networks

Communication Exchange

Entertainment

Joint Creation

e-Commerce & Services

Education

Noise

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The Names of Change

Information Society

Knowledge-based Society

Networked Society

Innovation Society

Linked to the concept of technological innovation.

Social, cultural, economic, political, and institutional transformation. Plural perspective of development. (Khan)

More than a technology: a means of communication, interaction, and social organization. (Castells)

Continuous development of personal and collective skills. Openness toward diversity (gender, ethnic, cultural).


From the Information Society…Information access and transmission

…to the Knowledge-based Society

Creative environments Socialization and use of knowledge Digital solidarityA “culture of innovation”Pleasure in lifelong learning Appreciation of cultural diversity


Dissemination of ICTs in LAC

Internet

Cellular phones

The international digital divide is closing, and access in developing countries is undergoing a process of recovery.

In 1995 the proportion of users among inhabitants in the OECD countries was 40 times higher than in the region (4 vs. 0.1 users per 100 inhabitants). In 2004 the difference fell to five times higher (56 vs.11 users per 100 inhabitants).

Slightly more than a decade after its introduction, used by approximately one out of every two people.

Sources: ITU, 2006a; UNCTAD, 2006; WEF/INSEAD, 2006; ITU/UNCTAD, 2007


Women, Men, and ICTs

INTERNET USE

CELLULAR PHONES

Source: OSILAC, 2006


Some Revealing Figures

38% of Latin American internet users were women.

2001

Between 1999 and 2000

The fastest growing group were young females (12 to 17 years), followed by women aged over 55.


Overcoming the Gender Digital Divide?

In spite of…

The absence of sex-based data on technology use

The lack of gender indicators

Scant research in the region

it appears that…

Women are equaling men in access, although there

are inequalities in usage, in the creation of

technology and content, and in political decision-

making.


What’s Happening in the Data Industries?

Almost no women own companies.

They are underrepresented in the highest positions: 9% of staff in medium and high-level posts 28.5% of programmers 26.9% of systems analysts 85% of data-entry workers

A large number work in exploitative conditions and without legal and social protection.

Source: UNIFEM, 2000; ILO, 2001


Plural Gaps

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POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING

Access to computers and software

Contents: amount, quality, dominant language, cultural specificity, gender/ethnic representations and values, etc.

Production of technology and content: owners, decision-makers, and ideological gurus

Social and digital capital

Quality of available infrastructure and service costs

Socio-economic, cultural, and institutional constraints on the production and use of ICTs


Strategic Axes for Parity

Access

Ownership

Innovation

Universal access – an indicator of development, justice, and the state of rights – is inadequate for generating empowerment processes.

The ability to make useful, meaningful use of technological tools.

Productive, social, and technological. Use of ICTs, adapting them to one’s own identity to create one’s own models. (Castro García)


The Challenge

Equality in the Information Society

Information Society for Equality


At the Policy Level

Incorporate all topics relating to women and ICTs into equality agendas

Invest all topics on the agenda with a crosscutting perspective of ICT

integration


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Creation of SMEs and Electronic Commerce

Education – ResearchContinual Training

E-Health

Electronic Citizenship / Citizen Participation

Electronic Government

Gender Mainstreaming

Violence Based on Gender Patterns

Digital LiteracyFree Software

Applications

Professional Development and Employment

On-line Networks and Communication


Creation of SMEs and Electronic Commerce

“Strengthening Women's ICT-based Enterprises” (Sula Batsú in conjunction with the University of Manchester) Costa Rica

http://www.sulabatsu.com/emprendedoras/guia/

“Women in Management" (LAC)

www.wim-network.org/espanol/news.htm

“Network of Latin American Businesswomen”

www.cestas.cl

Gloria Bonder / / www.catunescomujer.org

“Innovative Strategies for Incorporating Businesswomen into the Digital Economy”

MIMDES APWINC, Peru


Education / Research + Mentoring

“Program of Young Women in the Information

Society – Youth Researching Youth”

With the support of UNIFEM. www.catunescomujer.org

“Latin America Generates Program”

http://www.americalatinagenera.org

“Technical support for the Formulation of the II National Plan for Gender Equality

and Equity in Honduras” www.undp.un.hn, www.prigepp.org

“Diploma in Gender and in Justice" (partial on-site course)

www.medellin.gov.co , www.udea.edu.co, www.prigepp.org

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Digital Literacy

Digital Inclusion and Local Development in Uruguay

www.catunescomujer.orgwww.mec.gub.uy

Internet Training for Rural Women in Citizen Participation

www.modemmujer.org


Digital Literacy Courses: “Improving My Business,” “Opening Doors to the World of Work,” “Undertaking a Life Project,” and “Women Social Leaders” http://www.prodemu.cl

http://www.modemmujer.org/mujerrural


Violence Based on Gender Patterns

Campaign “Let's Master Technology”

http://www.takebackthetech.net/wiki/tiki-index.php

PARM – APC


Training workshop:

“ICTs and Gender: Eliminating Violence against Women”

www.cdi.org.uy

Women Empowered by Technology (Mujemtic)http://women.laneta.org/


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Gender and ICTs: Regional Forums and Debates


2004

Meeting of Experts on Gender, Science,

and Technology August 24 – 25,

OAS, Washington, D.C.

1st Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology – November 11 and 12, OAS Office of

Education, Science, and Technology

2003

World Summit on

the Information Society – Geneva

2005

World Summit on the

Information Society – Tunis

Declaration of Rio de Janeiro – eLAC 2007

GRULAC

2007

Regional Group Gender & ICT

Expert Communities in Gender & ICT (UN GAID)

Policy Delphi Information Society Program, ECLAC

10th Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the

Caribbean – ECLAC, August,

Quito Consensus.

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2008

Gender & ICT – 2nd Ministerial Conf. on the Information

Society in LAC – San Salvador, February 6–8

ECOSOC

2009

Creation of the Latin American

Center for Gender &

Information Society(CG&IS)

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eLAC: Information Society Action Plan

Guiding PrinciplesWSIS

Long-term GoalsMDG/WSIS

Short-term Action Plan Rio de Janeiro, June 2005

Adjusted Short-term Action Plan

San Salvador, Feb 2008

Adjusted Short-term Action

Plan

Monitoring and Assessment

Buenos Aires, Oct. 2005

Monitoring and Assessment,

Peru 2010


eLAC 2010: A Concerted Strategy

Progress toward an IS that benefits ALL the inhabitants of LAC

Promoting development through growth with equity

Consolidating democracy and strengthening regional integration

Reducing economic and social costs

Developing knowledge and skills in critical areas

Devising specific initiatives and projects at the regional level

Supporting the design and implementation of national initiatives through intraregional exchange

Objectives

Lines of

Action


eLAC 2010

83 ICT goals applied to:83 goals in 6 chapters

Education

Health

Public Administration

Productive Sector

Policy Instruments


The Challenge: Planning Regionally

Devising a Regional Plan of Action to mainstream the strategic use of ICTs

on the gender equality agenda of Latin America and the Caribbean

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