GenderIT.org

GenderIT.org emerged from the Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme's advocacy work in ICTs. It aims to be a resource that highlights examples of national policy, creates awareness about gender-sensitive language, provides information about tools for lobbying, and helps create an understanding of the impact of poor or positive policy on gender issues.

GenderIT.org has 4 main objectives:

1. to develop an information resource/knowledge sharing site for gender and ICT advocates, civil society organisations and policy makers that wish to be active in gender and ICT policy;
2. to raise awareness among civil society organisations, specifically in women’s movements, regarding gender and ICT policy issues;
3. to empower women’s organisations and networks in collaboration with other civil society actors to take action on ICT policy issues and develop ICT policy that meets their needs; and
4. to encourage them to lobby for an information society that builds social justice and human rights, at the national, regional and global level.

The website, which is available in both an English and a Spanish version, is organised around issues. Each issue offers an introduction to the theme, orienting visitors to basic aspects of gender and ICT relevant to the selected issue. Specifically, the site includes:

• Articles, gender assessments, case studies, policy papers and other resources on ICT policy and women’s issues, such as violence against women, women’s health, and economic empowerment.
• The "Beginners’ Section" features collected introductory material for those who are new to gender and ICT policy.
• The "Policy Makers’ Section" contains guides and other information which provide a basis for drafting gender-sensitive ICT policy frameworks.
• "Who's Who in Policy" offers a review of key actors who are involved to some extent in gender and ICT policy.
• "Events" offers a calendar of workshops, conference, meeting and other happenings engaging with the gender and ICT policy.
• "Feminist Talk" is an open space for discussion and information exchange of people interested in feminist aspects of ICT policy.
• "Jargon" is a glossary to understand unfamiliar ICT or gender terms.

Launched in April 2006, the Spanish version of GenderIT.org includes original resources and coverage in Spanish, as well as in Portuguese. In addition to making GenderIT.org contents accessible to women in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions of the world, the Spanish GenderIT.org
also addresses different priorities and issues for women in these regions, in an effort to ensure that their perspectives and needs are not absent from global and regional ICT policy spaces.

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According to the website, GenderIT.org is the result of months of researching, classifying, interpreting and monitoring ICT policies which affect women around the world, but specifically in four regions - Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central Eastern Europe and Latin America.