Author's Keywords: WSIS, Transnational Advocacy Networks, Epistemic Communities, Gender and ICT, Global Governance, Regime Formation	Convention Need a solution for abstract management? All Academic can help! Contact us today to find out how our system can help your annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Cogburn, Derrick. "Gender in the Global Governance of ICT: A Descriptive Exploration of Women in Transnational Policy Networks in the UN World Summit on the Information Society" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152565_index.html>

Cogburn, D. L. , 2006-08-31 "Gender in the Global Governance of ICT: A Descriptive Exploration of Women in Transnational Policy Networks in the UN World Summit on the Information Society" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152565_index.html

Publication Type: Proceeding Abstract: The fiftieth session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women explored the continued efforts by national governments to increase the participation of women in various levels and processes of decision-making and power. True and Mintrom (2001) suggest that a majority of the world’s governments have now instituted mechanisms for mainstreaming gender into national policy. Some argue that in large part, this progress is due to women’s transnational advocacy efforts. However, to what extent have these advocacy efforts been diffused into the ongoing policy contestation around the emerging international regime for the global governance of information and communications technologies (Krasner, 1986, 1991; Cowhey, 1992; Cogburn, 2003; Braman, 2004)? This paper explores the participation of women in transnational policy networks and epistemic communities active in global policy formulation for information and communication technologies taking the first phase of the UN-Sponsored World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and its various preparatory processes as a case study. We examine three key questions: (1) to what degree did women participate in the WSIS processes?; (2) do women differ from men in their participation in transnational advocacy networks and epistemic communities active in WSIS; and finally (3) are the policy preferences of women in WSIS different from men? The paper uses a descriptive analysis of international survey data (N=322) and participant observation. Much to our surprise, we find that on each of these three questions, there are very few differences between the male and female delegates participating in the WSIS processes. The paper concludes with suggestions for a growing research agenda that may enhance the character of multi-stakeholder policy processes.

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