Policy Advocacy

GenderIT.org is an online policy monitor for gender and ICT issues, where ICT policy is examined from the perspective of key areas of concern in women’s movements, such as economic empowerment and violence against women. It responds to the need to have examples of national policy, gender-sensitive language, tools for lobbying, and an understanding of the impact of poor or positive policy all within easy access, a need expressed by ICT advocates and policy makers alike.

In 2001 while working at Agenda, a South African feminist academic journal, we produced an edition titled ‘Globalisation: challenging dominant discourses’. The journal problematised the realpolitik of a global neo-liberal economic system that was marked by developing countries’ indebtedness, the rise of the market and the devastating consequences of structural adjustment policies for women of the global South.

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