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Free Software for Free Women
New technologies are challenging the way we live, the way we conduct business, the way we educate ourselves and our children. Women from solidarity economy groups recognise the need to learn to use them as a tool in their work. But what about free software? Is there any relationship between solidarity economy and free software?
The Free Concept: the Gender Law
We live in an age which is submitted to the impressive development of communication techniques and technologies, which effects spread out to the social, economic, political and cultural fields, and have serious implications on the very future of our democratic life. We observe an over-concentration of resources that reinforce the setting up of monopolies and private oligopolies in the sector of communication. This statement is very close to the fact that technological development is essentially developed like a full part of the globalization process. Information and communication represent an economic sector as such, with high benefit rates, which products must be given a price like goods.
Statement on Communication Rights
Communication plays a central role in politics, economics, and culture in societies across the globe. Information and communication technologies, together with the political will to implement communication rights, can provide vital new opportunities for political interaction, social and economic development, and cultural sustainability. The means to achieve these ends include universal access of all to the means of communication and information and to a diversity of media throughout the world.
Gender and ICTs: Overview Report
New technologies in the information and communications arena, especially the Internet, have been seen as ushering in a new age. There is a mainstream view that such technologies have only technical rather than social implications. The dramatic positive changes brought in by these information and communication technologies (ICTs), however, have not touched all of humanity. Existing power relations in society determine the enjoyment of benefits from ICTs; hence these technologies are not gender neutral. The important questions are: who benefits from ICTs? Who is dictating the course of ICTs? Is it possible to harness ICTs to serve larger goals of equality and justice?
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