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GenderIT.org emerged from the Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Rights Programme’s advocacy work in information and communications technologies (ICTs). The need to have examples of national policy, gender-sensitive language, tools for lobbying, and an understanding of the impact of poor or positive policy all within easy access has been expressed by ICT advocates and policy makers alike.
This page is designed to tell you who GenderIT.org is. The GenderIT.org is the project of Women's Rights Programme of Association of Progressive Communication. This document also aims to show you where  the website sits in relation to other websites of the Association of Progressive Communications


Launched in 2006, GenderIT.org is a seminal resource site that '''provides feminist reviews and commentary on internet policies and cultures'''. It maps the intersections between women’s rights and sexual rights with internet rights issues, concentrating on '''bringing voices from the South on these issues''', since the discourse is often dominated by those from the North.


The APC WRP also developed the Monitor for gender advocates – women’s organisations and movements across the world who are just beginning to explore gender issues in the deployment and application of ICTs, and need to understand the intersections with key women’s issues such as violence against women or economic empowerment.
The site is meant to be a '''think-tank OF and FOR women's, sexuality and internet rights activists, academics, journalist and advocates''' from a range of disciplines and contexts. GenderIT.org provides a space for reflection, influence and advocacy on internet policies and cultures  so that they meet women's needs and does not infringe on their rights.   It thus also serves as a resource and reference tool, with information on the key players, evolving terms and current debates.
 
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.
 
 
The monitor has three main objectives:
 
* 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.  
* To raise awareness among civil society organisations, specifically in women’s movements, regarding gender and ICT policy issues.
* 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. To encourage them to lobby for an information society that builds social justice and human rights, at the national, regional and global level.
 
 
The gender and ICT policy monitor is integrated with other ICT policy monitoring initiatives of the Association for Progressive Communications, including APC’s national ICT policy portals, and regional ICT policy monitors in Latin America, Africa and Europe.

Latest revision as of 21:27, 9 May 2016

This page is designed to tell you who GenderIT.org is. The GenderIT.org is the project of Women's Rights Programme of Association of Progressive Communication. This document also aims to show you where the website sits in relation to other websites of the Association of Progressive Communications

Launched in 2006, GenderIT.org is a seminal resource site that provides feminist reviews and commentary on internet policies and cultures. It maps the intersections between women’s rights and sexual rights with internet rights issues, concentrating on bringing voices from the South on these issues, since the discourse is often dominated by those from the North.

The site is meant to be a think-tank OF and FOR women's, sexuality and internet rights activists, academics, journalist and advocates from a range of disciplines and contexts. GenderIT.org provides a space for reflection, influence and advocacy on internet policies and cultures so that they meet women's needs and does not infringe on their rights. It thus also serves as a resource and reference tool, with information on the key players, evolving terms and current debates.

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