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Contains links
and documents related to gender, science and technology.
| Gender,
Technology and Development |
Gender, Technology and Development is an international, refereed
journal published by the Gender and Development Studies department
at the Asian Institute of Technology. The Journal provides a
forum for exploring and examing the linkage between changing gender
relations, technology and development. It also
presents important advances in gender knowledge and ways of thinking
for those working in community action, urban and regional planning,
technological advancement, rural development, and natural resource
management. (Subscription required.)
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0202.html
http://www.ait.ac.th/AIT/schools/serd/gendev/gtd.htm
| Gender
and Science and Technology Association |
Gender and Science and Technology Association (GASAT) is an international
association of people concerned with issues arising from interactions
between gender, science and technology. GASAT made vital contributions
towards the inclusion of science and technology in the Platform of
Action during the 4th UN Conference on Women and has been an active
member of the Once and Future Action Network
(OFAN).
http://www.gac.edu/~simpson/gasat/homepage.htm
http://www.gasat.org.uk
| Women
in Technology International |
Women in Technology International (WITI) offers a vertical portal
site on the Internet for women who have a high reliance on technology
in both their careers and their businesses.
http://www.witi.org
| African
Information Society - Gender Working Group |
African Information Society - Gender Working Group (AIS -
GWG) aims to ensure that African women participate fully in the development
of an Information Society and share equitably in the potential benefits
of the far-reaching developments in the production and consumption
of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
http://www.whrnet.org/issues/icts/aisgwg_abt.html
| Association
for Progressive Communications: Women's Networking Support Programme |
The Association
for Progressive Communications: Women's Networking Support Programme
(APC WNSP) promotes gender equity in the design, implementation, and
use of information and communication technologies - with special focus
on inequities based on women's social or ethnic background - through
the provision of research, training, information, and support activities
in the field of ICT policy, skills-sharing in the access and use of
ICTs, and women's network-building.
http://www.apc.org/english/about/apcwomen/index.htm
APC-Africa-Women is the African regional programme of APC's Women's
Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP). It gathers and works together
with women and women's organizations in Africa and all over the world,
focusing on African women's empowerment through Information Facilitation,
Regional Support, Policy and Advocacy, Training and Research in the
field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
http://www.apc.org/english/about/apcafrica/apcwomen.htm
| Women
in Global Science and Technology |
Women in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT) is an organization
that supports global networking on critical issues in science and
technology for development. This includes women’s formal and
non-formal science and technology practices for policy advocacy and
action that promotes S&T contributions to sustainable development.
http://www.wigsat.org
The Gender Advisory Board was
established in 1995 to provide advice to the United Nations Commission
on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD). It has two principal
functions: the first is to monitor the implementation of the recommendations
made by the Commission on gender and science and technology, and,
when requested, to provide assistance in their implementation. The
second is to advise the Commission on the gender implications of its
new work programmes.
http://gab.wigsat.org
| Gender,
Science and Technology Gateway |
The Gender, Science and Technology
Gateway is presented by the Gender Advisory Board of the UN Commission
on S&T for Development (UNCSTD) to help policy makers implement
the Gender Working Group recommendations.
http://gstgateway.wigsat.org
| Gender,
Science and Technology International Policy Issues |
Gender, Science and Technology International Policy Issues is
a web site of the International Federation of Institutes for Advanced
Study, which is a network of scientific research institutions from
developed and developing countries that collaborate on projects addressing
global policy issues.
http://www.ifias.ca/GSD/GSDinfo.html
| African
Women's Development and Communication Network |
The African Women's
Development and Communication Network is concerned with the sharing
of information and ideas between African NGOs so as to enable a better
and more effective NGO focus on women's development.
http://www.africaonline.co.ke/femnet
African Gender Institute (AGI) focuses on teaching, research and
capacity building within higher education because societies often
look towards higher education institutions to offer ideas and programmes
that are responsive to social problems.
http://www.uct.ac.za/org/agi
| United
Nations Development Fund for Women
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United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) promotes women's
empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation
of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts
as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the
needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national,
regional and global agendas. See, in particular, information on its
policies and activities in the field of Gender, Science and Technology.
http://www.unifem.undp.org/s&tech18.htm
| Association
for Women in Science and Engineering |
The Association for Women in Science
and Engineering aims to advance the participation
of girls and women in the sciences, from biomedicine to mathematics
and the social sciences, in engineering, and in the technologies,
in all areas and at all levels.
http://www.awise.org
| Women in
Science, Engineering and Technology |
Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WiTEC) is funded
by European Union to undertake projects that aim to redress the balance
of women studying and working in science, engineering and technology.
http://www.shu.ac.uk/witec
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