This article contains a list of downloadable versions and book titles, which I have considered important for the self-education in the area of ICTs. Feel free to add new resources to the provided ones! The structure of the article is following:

 Recommended authors
 Recommended publishers
 Recommended book titles
 Web-resources with manuals and teaching stuff
 Gender and ICT specialised materials
 Free Software related
 More specialised IT related
 Others

Recommended authors

 Bruce Schneier

— Crypto-Gram Newsletter
— Applied Cryptography, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-11709-9, 1996
— Secrets & Lies, Digital Security in a Networked World, ISBN 0-471-25311-1, 2000, Hardcover - 432 pages - $29.95
— Beyond Fear, Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World, $25, ISBN 0-387-02620-7, 2003
— Essays

 Manuel Castells:

— Volume I: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. The Rise of the Network Society. ISBN 1-55786-616-3 — ISBN 1-55786-617-1, 1996
— Volume II: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. The Power of Identity
— Volume III: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. End of Millenium

 Jakob Nielsen - On web usability

— Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
— Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
— Usability of Websites for Teenagers
— Durability of Usability Guidelines
— Papers and Essays by Jakob Nielsen

 Eric Raymond
 Richard Stallman
 Brus Perens

Recommended publishers

 O’Reilly
 The Penguin Press

Recommended book titles

 Communicating in the Information Society, edited by Bruce Girard, ISBN 92-9085-045-0, 2003 - publication, prepared for the Geneva WSIS. There is a part about Gender and ICTs, written by Daphne Plou.
 Digital Divide Civic Engagement Information Poverty, and the Intenet Worldwide, Pippa Norris, ISBN 0-521-80751-4, 2001

Gender and ICT specialised materials and books

 Article on gender and ICTs (in French only)
 Article on Free Software and gender issues (in French only)
 Article on cyberfeminism (in French only)
 Gender Setting. New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy, Margaret Gallagher, ISBN I 85649 844, 2001
 The Democratization... of Communication, edited by Philip Lee, ISBn 0-7083-1323-X, 1995
 Women and Internet: Croatian Perspective, Kristina Mihalec and Nevenka Sudar,ISBN 953-6967-08-1, 2003
 Women in Sync, Toolkit for Electronic Networking. 3 parts: Women Working in ICTs; Networking for Change; Acting Locally, Connecting Globally. APC-WNSP, 2000
 Net Gains. A joint research project of the APC, African Women and Femnet, 2000

Free Software basics

 The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond, 1999
 OpenSources, Voices from the Open Source Revolution, ISBN 1-56592-582-3, 1999
 Moving to Linux. Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!, Marcel Gagné, ISBN: 0-321-15998-5, 2003

More specialised IT related

 CRYPTO, Secrecy and Privacy in the New Code War, Steven Levy, ISBN 0-713-99346-4, 2000

Web.design

 All the books of Jakob Nielsen (about net usability)
 Recommended books on Web.design

Others

 Password: Women, a film of IIAV, made by: Rinske Bosch. Produced by The Kasander Film Company, 2004

 Weaving the Web. The Past, Present and Future of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, ISBN 1-58799-018-0, 1999