ICTs as an Inclusionary Imperative: A Seminar on Gender and Information Communication and Information Technologies

This paper was presented at a seminar on ‘Gender and Information and Communication Technologies’ organised by the Institute for Social Studies Trust in Bangalore in 2006. It points out that ICTs are reshaping personal and institutional relationships, and the new public reality that ICTs have helped create needs to be seen as a new site for feminism.

In this backdrop the author discusses the recent depoliticisation of gender and consequent obscurement of the the agenda of feminist struggle. She argues that while retaining old forms of exploitation, the new information society paradigm also provides an opportunity for feminism to exploit the disruptive potential of ICTs for institutional shifts that are gender equal, and also allow women to reclaim transformatory politics.

Publisher: ICT for Change
Year of Publication: 2006