The rapid technological changes caused by ICT have a strong impact on global societies. This will lead to changes in the traditional role patterns. In this paper we focus on an academic master course to create gender awareness in ICT development with a special emphasis on developing countries. First we analyze the impact of ICT on society, and derive requirements from society on the introductio...

Gender wise analysis of data brings out biological, behavioural and social variables which indicate inequality in the health parameters in male and female sex. There is discrimination against women. Right to birth is denied by sex selective elimination, right to survival is denied by the neglect of girl child resulting in declining trend of child sex ratio which has reached an alarming low leve...

Gender is one of the most important considerations in public health research and program implementation. Basic issues such as protecting women from violence, upholding their rights to property and equality in access to health, education, employment, and political participation are important to society and for public health. Gender inequality exists both within and outside the health system and ...

The authors gratefully acknowledge support for the preparation of this report from the Directorate General for Development (DGVIII) of the European Commission. However, the views expressed and any errors or omissions are those of the authors and not of DGVIII.

Along with the growing need for intercultural and translingual communication in an increasingly globalized world, machine translation (MT) becomes more and more important both in assisting language professionals in their daily work and in helping non-professionals understand and create texts in foreign languages. Based on the frequent assumption that it is machine translation's aim to replace h...