investigating technology, gender and empowerment
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Buskens, Ineke > (ed.)
- Creator
- Webb, Anne > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Meena, Ruth
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- AFR 1N 2009
- Thesaurus
- technologie, internet, ICT, ondernemers, empowerment, bundel, Afrika
- Description
- This book explores the ways in which women in Africa utilize Information and Communication Technologies 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 an extensive research project, this book features chapters based on original 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.