United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW).

Gender and ICTs has been a topic of interest for INSTRAW for some time. During 2002, the Institute carried out a virtual seminar series on Gender and ICTs with background papers and a very rich discussion on topics such as: gender neutrality of ICTs, enabling and disabling environments, engendering management and regulation, and ICTs as tools for bridging the digital divide and empowering women. Please see here .

A synthesis paper entitled "Overcoming the Gender Digital Divide:
Understanding ICTs and their Potential for the Empowerment of Women" bringing together the background papers and the discussion has been published and limited copies will be distributed at the gender table of the WSIS. The text of this paper (pdf format) is also available through the INSTRAW website

INSTRAW also prepared a special collection of resources, a database of on-line articles and publications of relevance to the topic. This can be found here.