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Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Communication and technology
ISBN : 0889369038
Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa
Author : Ineke Buskens
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,98 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 : Mary Ann Tétreault
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570030161
The contributors use a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze how women as a class have experienced specific twentieth-century revolutions. They identify the issues that prompted women to participate in the struggles, the roles they played, the contributions they made, and their hopes for better lives for themselves as women in the post-revolutionary society.
Author : Doctor Anne Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 21,85 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 : Doctor Ineke Buskens
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 35,13 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 : Nancy J. Hafkin
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Digital divide
ISBN :
Author : Wawasi Kitetu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 2869784007
This sixth volume of the CODESRIA Gender Series is a collection of discourses, perspectives, practices and policies on the role of the female gender in science and technology, particularly in the African context. Although widely advocated as the indisputable foundation for political and economic power in the modern world, science and technology remains marked by various layers and dimensions of gender inequality that work to the disadvantage of girls and women. Despite the fact that a lot of awareness has been created, and gender issues are now more readily acknowledged by various development initiatives in Africa, participation in science and technology still remains a hurdle as far as girls and women are concerned. A common theme that runs through the book is how feminine identities, ideologies of domesticity and gender stereotypes, and the inadequacy or lack of clear policies facilitate the invisibility of women in science and technology. This notwithstanding, women have never ceased devising clever and ingenious ways that would enable them to master nature, from the margins. The book provides a window onto the current state of female participation in science and technology in Africa, along with an analysis of the historical backgrounds, current educational and professional contexts, and prospects for the future. While it is evident that more research needs to be done, with more groups in different regions, this volume brings together a rich and inspiring collection of qualitative insights on gender, science and technology in Africa. The CODESRIA Gender Series acknowledges the need to challenge the masculinities underpinning the structures of repression that target women. The series aims to keep alive and nourish African social science research with insightful research and debates that challenge conventional wisdom, structures and ideologies that are narrowly informed by caricatures of gender realities. It strives to showcase the best in African gender research and provide a platform for emerging new talents to flower.
Author : Patricia Stamp
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0889365385
Technology, Gender and Power in Africa
Author : Michael Kevane
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588262387
Kevane explores gender issues in Africa in the context of the continent's poor economic performance.
Author : Awino Okech
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030463435
This book brings together conceptual debates on the impact of youth-hood and gender on state building in Africa. It offers contemporary and interdisciplinary analyses on the role of protests as an alternative route for citizens to challenge the ballot box as the only legitimate means of ensuring freedom. Drawing on case studies from seven African countries, the contributors focus on specific political moments in their respective countries to offer insights into how the state/society social contract is contested through informal channels, and how political power functions to counteract citizen’s voices. These contributions offer a different way of thinking about state-building and structural change that goes beyond the system-based approaches that dominate scholarship on democratization and political structures. In effect, it provides a basis for organizers and social movements to consider how to build solidarity beyond influencing government institutions. Chapters 3, 5, and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.