Nancy Hafkin

• PhD, History (Africa)
• Senior Associate at Women in Global Science and Technology (WISAT)

The inaugural report of the EQUALS Research Group surveys the landscape of knowledge on gender equality as it relates to digital access, skills, and leadership. Part One reviews research and data in these three areas as represented in official statistics, academic reports, and grey literature, and assesses the availability of relevant sex-disaggreg...

The chapter looks at the benefits of increased access to information for girls and women as well as the ways in which this access can benefit society as a whole, examining the numerous obstacles that females face in many realms in their quest for information. Examples are provided of best practices in information provision for and Utilization by gi...

This work takes stock of existing ICT indicators disaggregated by sex, assesses data availability and identified main gaps based on an evaluation of needs and demand for such indicators. It also identifies areas covered as well as potential new areas where sex-disaggregated data are desirable and the methodological work needed in order to develop r...

This is a report of the Task Group on Gender (TGG) of the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development to improve the availability of sex-disaggregated data, especially in developing countries. It takes stock of existing ICT indicators disaggregated by sex, assesses data availability and identifies main gaps based on an evaluation of needs and dema...

The Ethiopian diaspora is using the Internet increasingly to reflect on its identity, to forge new communities, and to promote cultural innovation. This essay tracks the close association of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with the emergence of the Ethiopian diaspora since 1980, setting forth a series of brief case studies illustr...

Issues related to the gender digital divide have been prominent in discussions of the information society. However, the paucity of statistical data on the subject makes it difficult, if not impossible, to make the case for the inclusion of gender issues in ICT policies, plans, and strategies to policymakers, particularly those in developing countri...

Technology enables globalization. We hear that soon, anyone, anywhere can access information and communicate knowledge and resources. But who is ‘anyone?’ Where is ‘anywhere?’ Technology holds the promise of overcoming, or the threat of ever widening the massive gender divide. The talks presented here represent a few of the voices from the edge of...

The Ethiopian diaspora is using the Internet increasingly to reflect on its identity, to forge new communities, and to promote cultural innovation. This essay tracks the close association of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with the emergence of the Ethiopian diaspora since 1980, setting forth a series of brief case studies illustr...

This study explores the computer-mediated communication (CMC) practices of the transnational civil society organizations involved in the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Informed by international regime theory, ...

This chapter examines a broad sample of World Bank projects from the ICT sector as well as those with ICT components from other sectors to determine the extent to which they included gender issues. The rationale for undertaking this exercise lies in an examination of the relationship of gender to development efforts. Methodology The study was based...

This paper provides a contemporary historical analysis of the African Information Society Initiative (AISI), the first systematic and comprehensive effort by African governments to bring their countries into the information age. Covering the period 1996- 2002, it is based on interviews, documentary and statistical sources, press reports, parliament...

Exporting Communication Technology to Developing Countries: sociocultural, economic and educational factors by EMMANUEL K. NGWAINMBI Lanham, MD, New York and Oxford: University Press of America, 1999. Pp. 240. US$52.00, US$31.50 (pbk.). - - Volume 39 Issue 2 - NANCY J. HAFKIN

Thesis--Boston University. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 404-422). Photocopy of typescript.

Only the summary is available in French. Incl. bibl.