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Author : Ineke Buskens
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1848131925
Based on the outcome of an extensive research project, this book features chapters based on original primary field research undertaken by academics & activists who have investigated situations within their own communities & countries.
Author : Doctor Anne Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1783600446
What is the link between information communication technology and women's empowerment in today's development context? How can ICT facilitate the pursuit of a better world? Exploring the rich complexity of the contexts in which they live and work, the authors of Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East offer a multitude of perspectives and experiences, avoiding simplistic answers and solutions. Based on analyses from twenty-one research teams in fourteen countries, this much-needed, human-centred contribution to the fields of gender, development and information communication technology questions, demonstrates and suggests what it takes to wield the emancipatory potential of ICT.
Author : Ineke Buskens
Publisher :
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release :
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781350218161
Based on the outcome of an extensive research project, this book features chapters based on original primary field research undertaken by academics & activists who have investigated situations within their own communities & countries.
Author : Doctor Ineke Buskens
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136069
The revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has vast implications for the developing world, but what tangible benefits has it bought, when issues of social inclusion and exclusion, particularly in the developing world, remain at large? In addition, the gender digital divide is growing in the developing world, particularly in Africa - so what does ICT mean to African women? African Women and ICTs explores the ways in which women in Africa utilize ICTs to facilitate their empowerment; whether through the mobile village phone business, through internet use, or through new career and ICT employment opportunities. Based on the outcome of a extensive research project, this timely books features chapters based on original primary field research undertaken by academics and activists who have investigated situations within their own communities and countries. The discussion includes such issues as the notion of ICTs for empowerment and as agents of change, ICTs in the fight against gender-based violence, and how ICTs could be used to re-conceptualize public and private spaces. ICT policy is currently being made and implemented all over Africa, but the authors argue that this is happening mostly in the absence of clear knowledge about the ways gender inequality and ICTs are impacting each other and that by becoming alert to a gender dimension in ICT developments at an early stage of the information revolution, we may be able to prevent greater scaled undesirable effects in the future.
Author : Marie-Hélène Mottin-Sylla
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0857490311
Excision, or female genital mutilation (FGM), in Africa is no longer the private concern only of women; it is a social and political issue that concerns both men and women and this book reports on an innovative research and action project amongst girls and boys in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal. The project explores whether young people's use of information technology could contribute to the abandonment of FGM. In the age of the internet, beliefs and practices of FGM are shifting, particularly among young people. The results of this project show how, in the era of globalized citizenship, a cross-sectional vision that puts young people and gender at the center of development can produce real change.
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Communication and technology
ISBN : 0889369038
Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa
Author : Assata Zerai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351363654
How can we promote people-centered governance in Africa? Cell phones/ information and communications technology (ICT) are shown to be linked to neoliberal understandings of more democratic governance structures, defined by the Worldwide Governance Indicators as: the rule of law, corruption-control, regulation quality, government effectiveness, political stability/no violence, and voice and accountability. However, these indicators fall short: they do note emphasize gender equity or pro-poor policies. Writing from an African feminist scholar-activist perspective, Assata Zerai emphasizes the voices of women in two ways: (1) she examines how women's access to ICT makes a difference to the success of people-centered governance structures; and (2) she demonstrates how African women's scholarship, too often marginalized, must be used to expand and redefine the goals and indicators of democratice governance in African countries. Challenging the status quo that praises the contributions of cell phones to the diffusion of knowledge and resultant better governance in Africa, this book is an important read for scholars of politics and technology, gender and politics, and African Studies.
Author : Ndayizigamiye, Patrick
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1799829855
Technology has been hailed as one of the catalysts toward economic and human development. In the current economic era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, information acquisition, transformation, and dissemination processes are posed to be the key enablers of development. However, in the context of developing countries, there is a need for more evidence on the impact that ICT has on addressing developmental issues. Such evidence is needed to make a case for investments in ICT-led interventions to improve people’s lives in developing countries. Perspectives on ICT4D and Socio-Economic Growth Opportunities in Developing Countries is a collection of innovative research on current trends that portray the ICT and development nexus (ICT4D) from economic and human development perspectives within developing countries. While highlighting topics including mobile money, poverty alleviation, and consumer behavior, this book is ideally designed for economists, government officials, policymakers, ICT specialists, business professionals, researchers, academicians, students, and entrepreneurs.
Author : Edith Ofwona Adera
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1552505391
'ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction' presents a conceptual framework to analyse how poverty dynamics change over time and to shed light on whether ICT access benefits the poor as well as the not-so-poor. Essential reading for policymakers, researchers, and academics in international development or ICT for development.
Author : Ineke Buskens
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781350224025
Agentic ICT use: the aspiration for emancipation versus the power of gender traditions -- Developing critical voice in and through safe ICT-created space -- ICT-enhanced relating and becoming: personal and social transformation -- Methodology.