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Hafkin, Nancy and Sophia Huyer, editors. Cyberella or Cinderella: empowering women in the knowledge society. Kumarian Press.

Why the world isn't flat enough: bringing more women contributors and beneficiaries into information technology. Presentation to EMC Women's Leadership Forum and Global Women's Leadership Network, Pleasanton CA, 9 February 2006.

Measuring Infostates for Development: Gender-Specific Data and Indicators on ICT Use and Needs, Panel at the World Summit on the Information Society, November 17, 2005, Tunis.

Women, ICT and the Information Society: Global Perspectives and Initiatives. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 126. Proceedings of the international symposium on Women and ICT: creating global transformation 2005, Baltimore, Maryland.

New Technologies Creating New Opportunities for Women, Presentation at the panel Reflections on the 2003 Agreed Conclusions on Women and ICT: Current Efforts and Opportunities, Side Event, 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, New York, March 7, 2005.

Gender, ICT and the Information Society: A Global View and Digital Opportunity or Digital Exclusion: Best Practices in Using ICTs for Gender Equality in Africa, presentations at the conference Women and ICT: Challenges and Opportunities on the Road to Tunis, Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge, Arusha, Tanzania, October 20-22, 2004, organised by the WSIS East Africa Gender Caucus.

INSTRAW Virtual Seminar Series on Gender and ICTs. Background papers include work by Nancy Hafkin, Are ICTs Gender Neutral? A gender analysis of six case studies of multi-donor ICT projects", based on worked undertaken by WIGSAT for infoDev, and the synthesis paper, Overcoming the Gender Digital Divide: Understanding ICTs and their Potential for the Empowerment of Women by Sophia Huyer and Tatiana Sikoska.

Gender, ICTs and Education, June 2003.

Meeting of Experts on Gender and Science and Technology in Latin America on August 24-25, 2004, organised by the Office of Science and Technology, the Inter-American Commission of Women of the Organization of American States, and the Gender Advisory Board of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development. The initiative is part of the project Gender and Science and Technology: Proposals for integrating a gender perspective in science, technology, engineering and innovation policies in the Americas (SEPIA IV). Expert papers were commissioned with funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Poverty Eradication and the Knowledge Society, Presentation at the workshop Science and Technology for Social Development, Organisation of American States, Jamaica, March 3-5, 2004

The Leaky Pipeline: Gender Barriers in Science, Engineering and Technology, Presentation at the World Bank Gender and the Digital Divide Series, February 5, 2002.

Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society. Nancy Hafkin with Helen Hambly Odame, Gesa Wesseler, and Isolina Boto. International Service for National Agricultural Research Briefing Paper no.55, September 2002.

Gender issues in ICT policy in developing countries: an overview. Paper presented to United Nations Department for the Advancement of Women Expert Group Meeting on information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women. Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 2002.

Knowledge, Technology and Development: A Gendered Perspective by Shirley Malcom, Director, Education and Human Resources Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Gender Equity, Telecommunication Development and the ITU - CIDA submission to the 1998 ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference in Valetta, Malta, March 23-April 1, 1998. Prepared for Tony Zeitoun and Marie Powell at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

Supporting Women's Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Sustainable Development, prepared for the ACACIA project, IDRC, 1997

List of selected papers from the Eighth International Conference of the Gender and Science and Technology Assocation held in Ahmedabad, India, January 1996.