1. .PIRONGRONG RAMASOOTA FACULTY OF COMMUNICATIONS ARTS CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY Women and Girls in ICTs

2. Women and ICTs in Thailand In 2011, there were more female Internet users than male Internet users. From 2005 to 2011, female Internet users increased from 12.2% to 23.9%, while the same growth for male Internet users was recorded at 11.8% to 23.5%

3. Percentage of Male and Female Internet Users 2005 - 2011 Source: National Statistics Office Percenta ge Mal e Fema le

4. Internet and computer skills: Men and Women  Women have higher Internet and computer skills compared to men. Research found that Internet and computer skills of Thai women were higher than Thai men in every region.

5. Percentage of Population aged 15-24 with ICTs skills 2005 - 2007 Percent age 200520062007 Source: National Statistics Office

6. Percentage of Population aged 15-24 with ICTsS skills 2005 - 2007: by regions Region s All Bangkok Central North Northeast South 20052006 2007 All Source: National Statistics Office

7. Women in ICTs Sector Statistics from 2007 to 2011 showed that women working in ICTs sector were far less in number than men. In 2011, 90.5% of ICTs workforce were men (446,805), while women were responsible for only 9.5% (46,758 )

8. Percentage of ICTs Workforce by gender in 2011 Source: National Statistics Office

9. Women in ICTs Sector There were fewer women working in ICTs sector, particularly in lower skill jobs, such as technicians and machinists. In high skill jobs, the number of women were about half the number of men.

10. Number of ICTs Workforce by gender: 2007-2011 Source: National Statistics Office 200520062007 High Skill Low Skill Number

11. Research on Women and ICTs  Girls in Cyberspace : Opportunities and Risks by National Institute of Child and Family Development There are differences in ICTs usage of girls living in metropolitan and rural areas, in term of amount of time spent. MetropolitanRural 1.Internet1.Mobile 2.Mobile2.Internet 3.Computer Game

12. Research on Women and ICTs  Risks encountered by girls and boy: Girls are more prone to risks such as accessing sexual content, online chatting, deception and drugs. While, boys are prone to a problem of addiction to ICTs.

13. Research on Women and ICTs  Girls’ use of ICTs Girls both from metropolitan and rural area constructively use ICTs, such as searching for data and knowledge, enhancing English skill, reporting news and making websites. Women dropping out of ICTs career? Current research on girls and ICTs tend to be limited to use and risks encountered. None addresses the question as to why women have dropped out from a career in ICTs. One past research suggests that conventional wisdom and stereotypes on the masculine character of science and technology discourages women from working in ICTs while ICTs work itself requires flexible hours and demanding workload and responsibilities that women find difficult to cope.

14. Women in charge of ICTs (1) Jirawan Boonperm, permanent- secretary of Ministry of ICTs Thailand is also a woman.

15. Women in charge of ICTs (2) Patama Chantaruck was Managing director of Microsoft Thailand Stepped down in Mar 2011 to lead $9B business division in Redmond, WA

16. Women in charge of ICTs (3) Supajee Suthampan was general manager of Global Technology Services at IBM Asean Appointed as Thaicom's CEO in Mar 2011

17. Women in charge of ICTs (4) At DTAC, a Norwegian telecommunications concern in Thailand, there is only one woman (out of 8 management members) working in top level management team, while at its rival AIS, a Thai-turned Singaporean mobile service provider, there is one woman (out of 9) working in the Board of Directors.

18. Government project aiming at improving status of women in ICTs  e-Women Project The Ministry of ICTs, in conjunction with telecentre.org foundation, aims to promote ICTs skills in women, namely, ICTs literacy through community ICTs center Telecentre.org recruits women who are leader in ICTs use from ICTs community center. This group of women are those who are successful in using ICTs to foster their quality of life.

19. Government project aiming at improving status of women in ICTs The selected women are sent to participate in the Most Outstanding Telecentre Woman Manager 2011 The Ministry of ICTs considered this project a successful initiative to prepare women for technological change.

20. CGEO – government project to improve gender equality Chief Gender Equality Officer (CGEO) has gained Cabinet’s approval on 31 July 2001. According to this initiative, all Ministries and Departments are to appoint one at the executive level the Chief Gender Equality Officer (CGEO) and establish Gender Focal Point (GFP). Civil Service Commission to set up criteria for CGEO and GFP. The objectives are to promote gender equality in Thai Civil Service System and create networks of gender equality in Thai Civil Service System.

21. CGEO – government project to improve gender equality Mission of CGEO Set up policy and Supervision : Gender perspectives to be integrated in all organizational structure and mission Support : Learning/training in gender mainstreaming in their agency as well as collection of sex-disaggregated data Be trained in gender mainstreaming

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