Gender concerns
Gender and the Digital Divide - Assessing the Impacts of Telecenters
http://www.worldbank.org/gender/digitaldivide/telecenterpanel.html
There are now thousands of telecentres in operation. However, few have considered the differing needs and interests of male and female clientele. Experiences with telecentres in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Middle East & North Africa are shared here, along with discussion of the potential of telecentres to expand access to women.
Imfundo KnowledgeBank paper: "Girls Issues"
http://imfundo.digitalbrain.com/imfundo/web/learn/kb2/?verb=view
"Girls issues" explores the ways in which advances in information and communications technology and their use in education, particularly affect girls and women, focusing on developing countries, where the gender divide is more prevalent than in the developed world.
Gender Barriers to ICT: Identifying Barriers to ICT in Education Based on Gender Differences
http://www.col.org/wdd/
From 1998 to 2001, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) convened four regional expert group meetings to identify barriers to information and communications technologies (ICT) in education based on gender differences. Reports from these meetings are available here, in Acrobat PDF format.
