Women & ICT: Education and Employment Issues and Opportunities in Developing Countries

Technology enables globalization. We hear that soon, anyone, anywhere can access information and communicate knowledge and resources. But who is ‘anyone?’ Where is ‘anywhere?’ Technology holds the promise of overcoming, or the threat of ever widening the massive gender divide. The talks presented here represent a few of the voices from the edge of this new “flat world” working tirelessly to ensure that technology-enabled globalization fulfills its promise and that no woman or girl — indeed no one — is left to struggle in isolation on the wrong side of an abyss.