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Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Communication and technology
ISBN : 9780889369030
Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa
Author : Doctor Ineke Buskens,Doctor Anne Webb
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Doctor Anne Webb,Doctor Ineke Buskens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783600441
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,Doctor Anne Webb
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848136064
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,Nancy Taggart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Digital divide
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111092511
Author : Wunyabari O. Maloba
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : National liberation movements
ISBN : UCSC:32106019144267
Extrait de la couverture : " The revolutionary movements covered in this book occurred in: Algeria, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The book describes and analyzes the nature and impact of women's participation in these revolutionary movements. How did these revolutionary movements define women's liberation? What is the linkage between feminist theories of liberation and national liberation? Did the national liberation movements betray women? And what has been the fate of the original commitments (and impulses) toward women's liberation and gender equality?"
Author : Trauth, Eileen M.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1451 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781591408161
"This two volume set includes 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Information technology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112676924
A selective review of studies and projects
Author : Tan, Felix B.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 4194 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781599049403
"This collection compiles research in all areas of the global information domain. It examines culture in information systems, IT in developing countries, global e-business, and the worldwide information society, providing critical knowledge to fuel the future work of researchers, academicians and practitioners in fields such as information science, political science, international relations, sociology, and many more"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Awino Okech
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030463434
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.
Author : Adomi, Esharenana E.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781615208487
The Handbook of Research on Information Communication Technology Policy: Trends, Issues and Advancements provides a comprehensive and reliable source of information on current developments in information communication technologies. This source includes ICT policies; a guide on ICT policy formulation, implementation, adoption, monitoring, evaluation and application; and background information for scholars and researchers interested in carrying out research on ICT policies.
Author : Mary Ann Tétreault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Revolutions
ISBN : 1570030316
Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World evaluates the effect of political upheaval on the way that women live and on the most basic of social organizations - the family. 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. In some instances, gender issues were used to mobilize men in support of individuals and parties seeking political power in the new order, and in other cases, attempts by revolutionaries to spearhead changes in gender relations became focal points for counter-revolution. The contributors note why and how women themselves sometimes oppose changes in gender relations, and how that opposition affects post-revolutionary politics.
Author : Mansah Prah
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789970252343
Since gender entered the development discourse in the Seventies, African countries have increasingly taken the concept on board in policy and practice. This concern may be due to either one or a combination of the following factors: the ideological positioning of African countries, demands by their donors and development partners, and demands by organised local groups and NGOs. Gender in the development discourse ought to transform power relations between men and women and shift them to social relations that reflect their equal access to productive resources, opportunities and social and material benefits. The result of such actions should be an achievement of comparable status of women and men. This volume, initiated by OSSREA, seeks to examine in more depth, issues regarding the gender-power imbalance in sub-Saharan African countries, with a specific focus on the eastern and southern African regions. The chapters in this book present research that examines and analyses the effectiveness and efficiency of gender mainstreaming policies, strategies and projects developed and implemented by national and international actors. The themes inter-weave with each other although they address gender issues in specific countries and specific contexts. This can be explained by the shared colonial and post-colonial heritage of African countries. It is useful, therefore, to view the structure of the book as a spiral of inter-connected issues that address similar themes, approaching them from different levels. Purely for ease of reading, the contributions have been organised into three parts, with over arching themes that at first glance may seem not to fit well together. A theme that runs through all the chapters is the persistence of patriarchal values and attitudes in Africa and its constraining effect on the achievement of gender equity and equality.
Author : Caroline Sweetman
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0855984228
This collection of articles from Gender and Development considers technologies of many kinds, including those intended to save womens labour, to enable them to control their fertility and to learn and communicate using computer technology.
Author : Raj Bardouille,Royal Colle
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443802291
Africa faces serious challenges in the world of globalisation. One of the most serious and basic of these challenges is that of information and communication technologies. Meeting the range of social, economic and political goals in the contemporary world requires the meeting of the information challenge. This volume - primarily the product of a specialist meeting at Cornell University - provides both overview and detail on how this challenge can be and is being met.