Gender & ICTs
UNECE provides a regional platform for dialogue and supports the inclusion of gender into WSIS process and national startegies. It also contributes to capacity building in ICT for women entrepreneurs and develops methodologies and collects data on gender and ICT.
Within the process of building a knowledge-based society, ICT has great potential to become a tool for ensuring gender equality in the UNECE region, where women are well educated and have high level of participation in the formal labour market.
SIS, Tunis 2005: High-Level Panel on “Women in the Information Society: Building a Gender Balanced Knowledge-Based Economy".
UNECE publication 2004: "Access to Financing and ICT for Women Entrepreneurs in the UNECE region"
WSIS, Geneva 2003: "From Bucharest to Tunis: regional cooperation on Gender and ICT in Eastern Europe and the CIS countries".
WSIS, Bucharest 2002:"The Pan-European Regional Ministerial Conference, Round Table on Building Gender Sensitive Information Society".
“Statistics on Women and Men and ICT: The ECE Region” paper presented at the meeting on UNECE/UNCTAD/UNESCO/ITU/OECD/Eurostat Statistical Workshop: Monitoring the Information Society: Data, Measurement and Methods. Geneva, December 2003.