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From the Digital Divide to Digital Opportunities: Women in the Information Society |
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This publication represents a collaborative global endeavour in direct response to the Plan of Action of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS, Geneva 2003), which called for the development and the launching of a "Composite ICT Development Index". It provides the international community with a much-needed measuring instrument, complemented with several in-depth analytical chapters.
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This joint Orbicom-ITU project was made possible with the
collaboration of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC),
the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), L'Agence
Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie (AIF), and United Nations
organizations su ch as UNESCO and UNCTAD.
It was initiated in the
aftermath of the 2003 Geneva phase of WSIS to build on the enthusiastic
reception by the international community of Orbicom's "Monitoring the
Digital Divide ... and Beyond" report.
The current publication is now
launched in the context of the second phase of WSIS, Tunis, 16-18
November 2005. This edition is based on a three-part work plan:
- the ICT opportunity index based on the Infostate framework and
model;
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- detailed regional analyses with a policy focus for countries in
Africa, Asia and Latin
American and the Caribbean, and;
- women in the Information Society, which incorporates quantitative
and
qualitative research to study the gender digital divide.
Additional topics are also incorporated in the course of the
research.
Download this publication in PDF format here
(2005-2006)
Orbicom, CRDI, UNDP/APDIP, OIF
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Last Updated ( 2010-05-10 )
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