Each year, CTA invites 15-20 experts in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for a 2-3 day consultative Observatory meeting on ICT issues and policies in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The central theme of this year's Observatory meeting was gender in the context of ICTs for agricultural and rural development. The meeting looked at the impact of ICTs from a gender perspective and tried to identify ways in which modern ICTs can help to empower rural women in ACP countries.

The programme of the consultative meeting started with four public lectures on 11 September by well-known experts in the field of gender, agriculture and ICTs. The speakers discussed challenges and opportunities in gender, ICTs and agriculture, and explored policy priorities for upcoming World Summits (e.g. 3rd World Congress on Rural Women; World Summit on the Information Society).

A statement on Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society has been prepared by the participants of the meeting.
[Format:  pdf file ] [workshop papers]