Fyi
- please don’t respond to me, but to Anita (contact given below)… best wishes
to all! Jethro
From:
Elaine Mercer
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:28 PM
To: Gender Working Group
Subject: FW: URGENT Gender and Media/ICT contacts in Central Asia
Dear all
Anita needs some urgent help finding gender
experts/organisations in Central Asia that work on media and ICTs (see message
below). She is currently working on the Beijing +15 review and needs
this info by this Friday May 1st. If you have any ideas
please contact her directly [log in to unmask]
Thanks
Elaine
(Anita is a member of the BRIDGE advisory board, she is
the executive director of IT for Change, an NGO located in Bangalore, India. )
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BRIDGE - Gender
and Development
The Institute of Development Studies, UK
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From: Anita
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Sent: 28 April 2009 10:37
To: BRIDGE International Advisory Committee
Subject: [iac2] [Fwd: RE: urgent]
Dear
friends
This
comes with a request .. Can you suggest any expert or organisation in Central
Asia who can help us with some data on media and ICTs for the Beijing plus 15
review. We need inputs by end of this week .. Friday...
Anybody involved in human rights and gender work will be great; also any
academics that you know? The 2 questions we want answered are as follows:
1. What are the big issues in the changing media and ICT landscape today, that have implications for gender, equity and social justice - be they relating to infrastructure, technological innovations, media ownership, regulation, knowledge, content, representation...... (It would be great to have examples, case studies, best practices, good and retrograde policies, that explain your points)
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2. What are the policy issues here? What have policies not addressed and should address?
The context
of the UNESCAP process is as follows:
The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is
organizing a high-level meeting in September 2009 as a regional review of
the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (“Beijing +15â€Â). In
that connection, we are organizing an expert group meeting 13-15 May 2009
in Bangkok to hear from people with expertise in various areas as well as
from various sub-regions of Asia-Pacific in order to a) identify and
analyze emerging and persistent challenges for the region relevant to
achieving gender equality; b) propose an organizational and conceptual
framework for the high-level meeting.Â
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