Do copyrights and patents limit access to HIV/AIDS knowledge and treatment in...
The UNAIDS 2008 report confirms that Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the region most seriously affected by AIDS in the world. As part of the response to this pandemic, access to informationi and...
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University women struggle for knowledge access in Africa
The future female leaders of Africa are up against major barriers to knowledge access, which could mean lost opportunities in university learning and teaching the statei-of-the-art research most...
View ArticleChallenges of communal copyright: Traditional and indigenous knowledge
Copyrighti and patents legislation has spread rapidly over the past century. This has a particular impact on indigenous women and the holders of traditional knowledge, as copyright ignores the...
View ArticleCopyright? Copyleft? Why does it matter? An interview with Heather Ford
GenderIt writer Mavic Cabrera-Balleza interviewed Heather Ford, Founder of the African Commonsi Project, a South African NGO with the goal of mobilizing communities through active participation in...
View ArticleICTs: Women, free software, copyrights,… forgotten by Mauritanian legislators...
Fatma Mint Elkory Oumrane takes a look at the progress Mauritania is making in encouraging open accessi to materials, its copyrighti regime and how these impact on women. She examines the role of...
View ArticleTIC : Femmes, logiciels libres, copyrights, …les oubliés du législateur et du...
Les logiciels libres sont une vraie solution aux problèmes de fracture numérique qu’engendre le sous -développement. En effet, il est désormais indéniable qu’ils ont, avec l’implication des femmes et...
View ArticleReaction to the Gender Findings from Africa’s Access to Knowledge Research
GenderIT.orgi writer and a Research Officer at Canada`s International Development Research Centre, Kathleen Diga tracks the journey of the African Copyright & Access to Knowledge (ACA2K)research...
View ArticleEROTICS: Sex, rights and the internet - an exploratory research study
Download the report under 'Attachment' below. Below you will find also details about publisher and the year of publication.Descarga el informe de síntesis de EROTICS disponible en españolread more
View ArticleCritical Issues Pertaining to the Gender Dimension of Biotechnology Policy
This paper surveys existing research on the impact of biotechnology in a number of important areas relevant to development policy and gender such as agriculture, health, traditional knowledge and...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Organizations Online : Risks, Ethical Dilemmas, and...
Domestic violence service organizations are increasingly using the World Wide Web to provide information, secure resources, promote advocacy campaigns, and, more recently, to provide direct services...
View ArticleGender dimensions of intellectual property and traditional medical knowledge
This paper examines the discussion on intellectual property rights (IP) for traditional knowledge (TK) in medicine from a gender perspective. It argues that a gender analysis of these issues adds to...
View ArticleIntellectual PROPERTY RIGHTS in Africa
Articles on intellectual property rights in Africa have been brought together by the International Environmental Law Research Centre. The site includes papers translated from Arabic, and topics covered...
View ArticleAfrican Copyright & Access to Knowledge Project
The African Copyright & Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) Project examines the relationship between national copyright environments and access to knowledge in African countries. The project is probing...
View ArticleA Women's 'Commons'? An Exploratory Dialogue on the Potential of the...
The idea of the 'commons' has been contestedly understood as being both a principle of understanding content and creative products, and a community that supports the sharing of information and...
View ArticleIntegration of ICTs in the Health System: Basic Services and Risks to Privacy
How can a health care system respond to the gender-specificities in terms of providing accurate and timely information & services? And in what way can ICTs augment or challenge this effort?...
View ArticleCybercrime laws are not enough, there is also a need for education
The different forms of online violence against women should be covered by criminal legislation to provide adequate protection and redress. However, laws are not enough. There is also a need for...
View ArticleBuilding digital technologies
Why are there less women in technology or ICTs? The participation of women in building technologies is a complex and difficult issue to address. It ranges from the field of public policy to cultural...
View ArticleTools for movement builders: ICT Toolkit and We Rise – Just Associates
Central to the toolkit is how to develop a feminist communication strategy whilst making safe and sustainable choices amongst the array of available ICT tools. Rooted in the experience and contexts of...
View ArticleThe (mobile) games women play
Games on mobile phones are often a disregarded area of study, because it is relatively cheap and less glamorous than video games. But global consumer spending on mobile gaming in 2015 was estimated to...
View Article[COLUMN] Finding solutions: Using ICTs to face the climate emergency
In her fourth column, Sonia Randhawa looks at whether ICTs can play a role in finding solutions to climate change. However while ICTs seem like an ideal technology for building networks and connections...
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