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Mobiles equipped with cameras are being used to peep up girl’s skirts as they climb on board buses. The same “emergency alert” button to send a distress signal from a cell phone is also connected to a global positioning system signal that allows women’s movements to be closely monitored by their spouses. Hundreds of Indian women denounce street sexual harassment in the Blank Noise Project Blogathon, many snapping shots of “Eve-teasing” aggressors.

Can ICTs help reduce poverty? After so many decades of development theory and practices, why is poverty on the rise?

This feminist talk was first presented by Jan Moolman at the research meeting the ‘Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society’ that was organized by IT for Change, and took place in Bangalore in February 2012. In her contribution, she shared her views on some challenges that impact on feminists solidarity and ability to organize.

When I first read the title of this session, my answer to this question was: EVERYTHING! … and let me tell you a story about why I think so.

APC WNSP’s Gender Evaluation Metholodology (GEM) was first elaborated in 2001 and has been applied throughout Latin America in a myriad of rural and urban settings where ICTs have been used in diverse and creative ways – but what has this meant for the women and girls such projects aim to support? GEM can help you determine whether your project or initiative is really improving the lives of women and promoting positive change in the community you are working in.