WSIS gender caucus: summary of recommendations to the second WSIS-Africa Regional Preparatory Conference: Accra, Ghana, 2-4 February 2005/Caucus de genre du SMSI: resume des recommandations a la seconde Conference de Preparation Regionale du SMSI en Afrique Accra, (Ghana), 2-4 Fevrier 2005.The WSIS WSIS World Summit on the Information Society WSIS Who Should I Start? (fantasy football) WSIS Waste Stream Information Sheet WSIS White Smoke Identification System (US Navy) Gender Caucus places great importance in aligning the WSIS preparatory process and outcomes with achievements of the Millennium Development Goals “MDG” redirects here. For other uses, see MDG (disambiguation). The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that 192 United Nations member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. and urges Governments and the International Community to acknowledge and treat the integration of gender equality and women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and in the Information Society and Information and Communication Technologies as a fundamental issue. The Gender Caucus acknowledges the significance of the African Regional Preparatory Conference for the second phase of WSIS, commends the theme "Access--Africa's key to an inclusive Information and Knowledge Society" and recommends collective action of all African stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. for the integration of a gender perspective in the IS in general and ICTs in particular. In this WSIS Gender Caucus' statement of recommendations on the major Information Society issues presented at the Accra meeting, ACCESS is underlined as key; access to financing, infrastructure and technologies. Thus, proactive, committed and gender-sensitive actions and attitudes are urged on the following: Issue 1: Financing the Information and Knowledge Society Adequate and sustainable resources are required to fulfil the goals of WSIS. We recommend gender-sensitive budgeting, support for the Digital Solidarity Fund The Digital solidarity fund (DSF) was established following talks which took place during the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005. The foundation operates under Swiss law with its headquarters in Geneva Switzerland. (DSF DSF Dubai Shopping Festival DSF Digital Solidarity Fund DSF Division of State Facilities DSF David Suzuki Foundation DSF Dispersion Shifted Fiber DSF Dansk Sportsdykker Forbund (Danish Sport Diving Federation) ), creative financial investment schemes and facilities which do not restrict women only to micro credit, the allocation of targeted funds for gender and ICTs and the involvement of Development Banks (national and continental) in the creation of ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT. (2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL. 1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test. investment products and services. Issue 2: Indicators and benchmarking Measurable performance indicators must be defined within a gender and cultural analysis framework as a basis for the generation and collection of appropriate statistics and indicators on the Information and Knowledge Society. The Gender Caucus recommends that all IS and ICT indicators be engendered and all data gender disaggregated Broken up into parts. . Issue 3: ICTs for socio-economic development There is a great deal of faith in the potential of ICTs to positively support socio-economic development. We recommend more profound gendered analysis of impacts, training and capacity development for women and men, literate as well as non-literate, "ICTs and Development" and entrepreneurship as a means to improve the positive effects on enduring development. Issue 4: Access and infrastructure Infrastructure is paramount and basic telephone connectivity in Africa is significant but not a sufficient condition for enduring development. We recommend that infrastructure be made available within walking distance of all and should include mobile as well as other options such as optic fibre to reach all parts; rural and urban. Hardware, equipments and software should be made available and affordable to the majority. Issue 5: Industrialisation Noun 1. industrialisation - the development of industry on an extensive scale industrial enterprise, industrialization manufacture, industry - the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of Growth of the ICT industry is important for developing economies and ought to benefit both men and women. The WSIS Gender Caucus recommends that ICT industries (including computer refurbishment re·fur·bish tr.v. re·fur·bished, re·fur·bish·ing, re·fur·bish·es To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate. re·fur industries should be supported and that more women should be involved and engaged as producers and workers in both hardware and software industries and enterprises. Issue 6: Internet Governance Policies and mechanisms for Internet governance have been topics of heated debate between many different Internet stakeholders, some of whom have very different visions for how and indeed whether the Internet should facilitate free communication of ideas and information. The global Information and Knowledge Society depends heavily on the Internet as its main infrastructure and this global resource should be governed in such a way as to enable the full participation of African women and men. We recommend consideration for a gendered dimension of impacts and implications of the Internet Governance policies and that both men and women are equally represented in global ICT governance structures and institutions. Adopted from Gender WSIS; www.genderwsis.org NOUVELLES DU SMSI SMSI sommet mondial de la société de l'information SMSI Strong Metal-Support Interaction SMSI Simplified Message Service Interface CAUCUS DE GENRE DU SMSI: RESUME DES RECOMMANDATIONS A LA SECONDE CONFERENCE DE PREPARATION REGIONALE DU SMSI EN AFRIQUE ACCRA, (GHANA), 2-4 FEVRIER 2005 Le Caucus de genre du SMSI juge hautement important d'harmoniser le processus preparatoire du SMSI et ses resultats vec la realisation des Objectifs de developpement pour le millenaire et demande avec insistance aux gouvernements et 6 la communaute internationale de reconnaitre que la question de l'integration de l'egalite entre les sexes et des droits de la femme La Femme is a women-only beach in Marina, Egypt which caters to Muslims who want to swim in comfort away from prying and prurient view of "men and cameras". External links
[1] dans la Societe de l'information et des technologies de l'information et des communications est fondamentale et doit etre traitee comme telle. Le Caucus de genre reconnatt l'importance de la Conference preparatoire regionale africaine pour la deuxieme phase du SMSI, soutient le theme retenu, 6 savoir, "ACCES--Cie de l'Afrique pour une societe inclusive de la societe de l'information" et recommande une action collective de tous les acteurs africains en vue de l'integration d'une perspective de genre dans la Societe de l'information en general et les TIC en particulien Dans cette declaration des recommandations du Caucus de genre de la SMSI (presentee PRESENTEE, eccl. law., A clerk who has been presented by his patron to a bishop in order to be instituted in a church. a la reunion La Reunion may refer to:
abbr. versed sine le genre qui soient proactires et engagees sant encouragees sur les themes suivants : Question No 1: Financement de la societede l'information et du savoir Des ressources adequates et durables sant necessaires a la realisation des objectifs du SMSI. Nous recommandons la budgetisation de genre, le soutien au Fonds Au` fond´ 1. At bottom; fundamentally; essentially. de solidarite numerique, des modes d'investissement financiers creatifs qui ne limitent pas les femmes au seul acces aux micro credits, a l'allocation de fonds destines aux actions sur le genre et les TIC, et la participation des banques de developpement (nationales et continentales) a la creation des produits et services d'investissement lies aux TIC. Question No 2: Indicateurs et definition de criteres Des indicateurs de performance mesurables doivent etre definis dans le cadre de l'analyse culturelle et du genre pour appuyer l'elaboration et la collecte de statistiques et d'indicateurs appropries sur la Societe de l'information et du savoir. Le Caucus de genre recatomande que tous les indicateurs de la SI et des TIC soient mis au point et que toutes les donnees sur le genre soient ventilees par sexe. Question No 3: Les TIC au service du developpement socioeconomique On croit serieusement au potentiel qu'ont les TICs pour soutenir positivement le developpement socio-economique. Nous recommandons la conduite d'analyses plus profondes de l'impact, la formation et des capacites de developpement chez chez prep. At the home of; at or by. [French, from Old French, from Latin casa, cottage, hut.] chez prep at the home of [French] les femmes et les hommes instruits comme illettres, qu'ont les actions menees sur les "TIC au service du developpement", et l'esprit d'entreprise comme moyens permettant l'amelioration des effets positifs sur le developpement durable. Question No 4: Acces et infrastructure L'infrastructure est primordiale et la connectivite telephonique de base en Afrique est une condition importante mais insuffisante pour un developpement durable. Nous recommandons que l'infrastructure soit mise a disposition a une distance de marche pour tout le monde n. 1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. Le beau monde fashionable society. See Beau monde. Demi monde See Demimonde. et inctue, entre autres, des options mobiles et autres options telles que la fibre optique pour etre accessible partout, en zone rurale comrne en zone urbaine. Le materiel ma·te·ri·el or ma·té·ri·el n. The equipment, apparatus, and supplies of a military force or other organization. See Synonyms at equipment. , les equipements et les Iogiciels devraient erre disponibles et abordables pour la majorite de personnes. Question No 5: L'industrialisation La croissance de l'industrie des TIC est importante pour les economies en developpement et devrait beneficier aux hommes comme aux femmes. Le Caucus de genre du SMSI recommande que les industries des TIC (notamment les industries de remise remise v. to give up something, sometimes used in quit-claim deeds. REMISE. A French word which literally means a surrendering or returning a debt or duty. 2. 6 neuf des ordinateurs) soient soutenues et que plus de femmes participent et soient engagees comme productrices et travailleuses dans les industries et entreprises des equipements et des Iogiciels. Question No 6: Gouvernance de l'Internet La Societe Mondiale de l'Information et du Savoir est profondement tributaire de l'Onternet qui en constitue l'Infrastructure principale; cette ressource mondiale devrait donc etre gouvernee de maniere permettre la pleine participation des hommes et des femmes d'Afrique. Nous recommandons la prise en compte de la dimension genre des impacts et des implications de politiques sur la gouvernance de l'Internet et que les hommes et les femmes soienf representes sur une base egale dans les structures et institutions de gouvernance globales des TIC. Adapte du Gender WSIS; www.genderwsis.org |
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