Information Society Watch

http://www.apcwomen.org/
Through their programme work areas - training, participatory research, policy and advocacy in the area of gender and information technology, information facilitation, regional programme support, the APC WNSP aims to respond to these inequities and offer opportunities to women from many regions of the world.

http://www.CollectiveJourneys.org/
CollectiveJourneys is an online project that aims to document the history of women's information and communication organisations and the roles they played vis-à-vis the women and other social movements; and collate and highlight innovative works of women's information and communication organisations in supporting and strengthening women's movements focusing on southern formations

http://www.genderit.org/en/
GenderIT.org emerged from the Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme's advocacy work in information and communications technologies (ICTs). GenderIT.org is the result of months of researching, classifying, interpreting and monitoring ICT policies which affect women around the world, but specifically in four regions – Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central Eastern Europe and Latin America. It aims to develop an information resource/knowledge sharing site for gender and ICT advocates, civil society organisations and policy makers that wish to be active in gender and ICT policy. Additionally, it seeks to empower women’s organisations and networks in collaboration with other civil society actors to take action on ICT policy issues and develop ICT policy that meets their needs.

http://www.isiswomen.org/
ISIS is a feminist NGO formed in 1974 and is dedicated to women’s information and communication needs. ISIS creates channels for communication, networking and information sharing. The organisation focuses on those advancing women’s rights, leadership and empowerment in Asia and the Pacific.

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/gender/
The ITU gender issues department aims to narrow the gendered digital divide. The site provides information on their history and projects, and different reports on gender and ICT issues.

http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/sigis/
The Strategies of Inclusion: Gender and the Information Society (SIGIS) website provides the results of a major European project conducted during 2000-3 that analysed 30 initiatives and related processes for women’s inclusion in ICTs. The aim was to study the strategic features of inclusion, partly to learn from relative successes, and partly to provide a knowledge base to support and encourage development of new inclusion efforts. This knowledge goes towards safeguarding the development of an information society for all, and to improve the chances of success of commercial ICT projects.

http://www.siyanda.org/
Siyanda is an on-line database of gender and development materials from around the world. It is also an interactive space where gender practitioners can share ideas, experiences and resources. Siyanda aims to be an ever growing resource to support practitioners in implementing gender programmes and in mainstreaming gender equality concerns, whether they are gender specialists or not.

http://www.sidint.org/
This website explains the history of the joint partnership between the Society for International Development (SID) and UNESCO, their project activities with accompanying links since 1997, and projected activities for the future. The Women on the Net project works to assist the ways women are using the Internet for their empowerment. WoN provides a space for analytical and practical activities for women’s groups to engage in ICTs for better and stronger communication, networking and advocacy. The SID site also contains links to the organization’s international programming, publications and networks. A multicultural gender perspective is to be incorporated into the work of SID.

http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/
The Centre for Women and Information Technology (CWIT), established at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in July 1998, is dedicated to providing global leadership in achieving women's full participation in all aspects of information technology (IT). Women's participation in IT will strengthen the workforce, raise the standard of living for many women, and help to assure that information technology addresses women's needs and expands the possibilities for their lives. This site has a comprehensive resources on Women and IT.

http://www.wigsat.org/
This site provides information on research and advocacy around critical gender, science and technology issues and information and communications technology activities with global or South-based initiatives.

http://www.womenictenterprise.org/
The Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development project is coordinated by the University of Manchester's Institute for Development Policy and Management. The project is funded by the UK Department for International Development's Knowledge and Research programme.This website provides online guidance and networking about women's ICT-based enterprises in developing countries. It provides links to practitioner handbooks, workshop reports and other resources.

http://www.worldbank.org/gender/digitaldivide/
The Gender and the Digital Divide Seminar Series looks at the impact of ICTs on gender relations and the innovative ways that ICTs are being used to overcome gender inequalities to bridge the digital divide. The site offers summary reports of previous seminars.