ICT for development:

• International Taskforce on Women and ICTs


• Gender and e-Government:
  
  
  1. Information and communications technology and gender equality: new opportunities and challenges for public administration to implement the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals - Prepared for the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, ECOSOC, United Nations by WIGSAT in collaboration with FLACSO-Argentina, for the 9th session of the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration, 19 April to 23 April 2010, New York.
  
  
  2. Facilitation and presentation on Gender and ICT in e-Governance, UN DESA Workshop on E-Government, Addis Ababa, September 2009
  
  
  3. Handbook and Action Plan on Gender and e-Government in Africa Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Canada School of Public Service e-PolNet Resource Centre, 2008
  
  
  
  
• Contributions on gender equality to the FAO-IICD ICT for Livelihoods conceptual framework (current).


• PanAfrican Research Agenda on the Pedagogical Integration of ICTs – Member, scientific committee and resource on gender issues, February, 2008-Present


• Women in the Information Society in From Digital Divide to Digital Opportunity: Measuring Infostates for Development – Sophia Huyer, Nancy Hafkin, Heidi Ertl and Heather Dryburgh, Orbicom and Statistics Canada, 2005.


• Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society, Nancy Hafkin and Helen Hambly, CTA (ACP-EU), 2002.

Technology for development:

• Trading Stories: Experiences with Gender and Trade - Mariama Williams and Marilyn Carr, Editors, Commonwealth Secretariat 2010.


• Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets – Marilyn Carr, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2005. (Contains case studies on women, technology and global value chains).


• Minding the Gap: Technology, Development and Poverty Reduction – Marilyn Carr, Tony Marjoram and Sophia Huyer, UNESCO, forthcoming.


• Women in Agriculture (Synthesis Report), Sophia Huyer, Co-Author, International Assessment of Agriculture Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), World Bank.

Science, technology and innovation:

• Engendering the Knowledge Society: Measuring Women's Participation – Sophia Huyer and Nancy Hafkin, Orbicom, 2007


• Gender Equality and S&T Knowledge and Policy at the International Level – Sophia Huyer, Organization of American States (OAS), 2004.

State of the Art Reviews:

• Gender, Information and Development: An Analytical Study, USAID, 2001


• Gender Dimensions of Agricultural Biotechnologies, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), 2004


• Women and Non-Timber Forest Products: A Review, IFAD, 2007

Reviews of programming and institutional structures:

• Partnership on Higher Education in Africa- contribution on gender issues in staffing of African Universities, February-April 2010


• Lessons on Gender in ICT Applications: Case Studies of infoDev projects


• Gender review of World Bank ICT projects, 2002

Advice and facilitation for governments and agencies on gender mainstreaming of policies and programming:

• Gender and e-Government, including development of the Action Plan on Gender and e-Government in Africa Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Canada School of Public Service e-PolNet Resource Centre, 2008


• Support to the Organization of American States (OAS) on development of recommendations on gender, science and technology for the Summit of the Americas, 2004.

Policy analysis and research:

• Cyberella or Cinderella: empowering women in the knowledge society, Nancy Hafkin and Sophia Huyer, eds., Kumarian Press, 2006.


• Gender issues in ICT policy in developing countries: an overview. UNDAW, 2002.

Training policy makers and development practitioners:

• Gender mainstreaming workshops implemented for: Bellanet, infoDev, Acacia (IDRC), GAB-UNCSTD, OAS.

Development of training and educational materials:

• Information Toolkit on Gender Indicators in Engineering, Science and Technology, UNESCO, 2007.


• Labour saving Technologies and Rural Women: An Overview, contribution to a Sourcebook on Gender in Agricultural Livelihoods, IFAD/World Bank/FAO, forthcoming


• Contributions on women, technology, market access and global value chains in ‘Gender and Trade: An Action Guide’ Commonwealth Secretariat, 2007

See Reports and Publications for a complete listing of reports and presentations.

Networking and Knowledge Sharing:

• Moderation of webinar: Gender issues in e-health in Developing Countries, for the PanAsian Collaborative for Evidence-based e-health Adoption and Applications (PANACeA)


• Moderation of the e-network on Gender, ICTs and E-Government, Economic Commission on Africa (ECA).


• Moderation of the INSTRAW Virtual Seminar Series on Gender and ICTs.


• WIGSAT-L and ICTforRuralWomen e-lists.


• Hosting of TWOWS Update and TWOWS Network, membership listservs for the Third World Organization of Women in Science.


• Hosting of WomenforScience-Africa - A planning list for the Women for Science Working Group of the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC).