In March 2003, the 47th session of the United Nations Commission for Women published its Agreed Conclusions that focused on the importance of increasing women's access to and use of ICT. The areas particularly identified by the Commission as important include education and training for women and girls in ICT and via ICT; and support to women's economic activities.

Why a CoE on GDISP?

A framework that constructs ICTs as a constitutive element of a new systemic social architecture, rather than just as a set of useful tools, provides a better possibility for understanding their transformatory nature. Within such a framework, it is necessary to understand and acknowledge the gender dimensions of these changes and to suitably engender information society (IS) policies.