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NEW
YORK (AL
and KAH for APC) – Smallholders in the desert region of Huaral depend
on irrigation cooperatives to water their crops. For ten years one coop
association has been developing an information system based on
telecentres to help them to make informed agricultural decisions. But
the system is being under-utilised and they decided to find what was
going wrong. Using APC’s Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) they found
that older people and women over 40 were being left behind. While
decision-making spaces are still mainly all-male, at least some issues
identified by women are now on the table.
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MONTEVIDEO (Orlando Arratia and AL for
APCNews) – The Bolivian
government is focusing on telecentres as a means of bringing internet
access to the population, especially in rural and marginalised areas.
But according to researcher Orlando Arratia, the structural problems
that currently limit connectivity cannot be resolved until the
government adopts a national broadband policy. More
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PRAGUE (GenderIT.org for APC) – The Beijing
conference in 1995
left participants feeling hope and anticipation for the change that was
about to come for women and girls across the world. Fifteen years
later, the Beijing + 15 conference in New York city is taking look at
how close we have come to ending violence against women. The
GenderIT.org team tracks the elusive “J-spot”, (section J in the UN
Beijing action platform that calls for action in the area of media
policy on gender issues, the image of women in the media, and increased
participation in decision making) and analyses its progress. While
headway has been made in these major areas, somethings also seem to
have been overlooked – emerging issues related to privacy and security,
especially how new technologies like cell phones can infringe on
privacy and personal safety were not addressed. This issue of
GenderIT.org digs a littler deeper into the conference, the action
platform and what’s to come. APC at the UN Commission on the Status of
Women. More
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NEW YORK (Sex Work Awareness for APC) – APC
has teamed up with
Sex Work Awareness in a study to look at content filtering systems in
public libraries with internet access in the United States, with an eye
towards reproductive health and sexuality. Find out more and take the
survey!. More
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