By Minke Valk, Sarah Cummings, Henk van Dam, Helen Hambly Odame
All over the world, details and verbal exchange applied sciences (ICTs) have replaced the lives of people, agencies, and, certainly, complete international locations. ICTs may have profound implications for ladies and males when it comes to employment, schooling, well-being, environmental sustainability, and group development.
Because of systemic gender biases in ICTs and their functions, ladies are way more most probably than males to adventure discrimination within the new info society. then again, resource-poor and non-literate girls and their corporations are conscious of the ability of data applied sciences and conversation tactics, and are utilizing them to increase their uncomplicated wishes and strategic pursuits, increase their livelihoods, and support them in attaining their human rights.
Gender and ICTs for improvement brings jointly case reports approximately girls and their groups in constructing international locations and the way they've been encouraged by means of, and feature used, ICTs in improvement. An advent through Helen Hambly Odame, now on the college of Guelph in Canada, previously with the overseas carrier for nationwide Agricultural study, presents a world evaluation of the problems, and a framework for responding to the case studies.
This booklet, the 7th of those worldwide Sourcebooks, positive aspects 5 significant case reviews which learn the various ways that ladies were capable of utilize electronic opportunities:
* e-commerce in Bhutan;
* entrepreneurship by means of ladies employees in China;
* post-conflict verbal exchange utilizing radio and ICTs in Sierra Leone;
* sustainable fisheries construction in Ghana; and
* info alternate on the topic of HIV/AIDS within the Caribbean.
The broad and updated serious bibliography of print and on-line assets makes this a very worldwide sourcebook at the subject. released in organization with package Publishers.
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Weavers in eastern rural areas tend to use chemically dyed raw materials imported from India, so that the final products have less traditional value and the colour soon fades (UNDP Bhutan website). Besides, since they do not have access to information on market demand, they design their products based on their own inspiration without timely feedback from the market, and take the high risk of travelling all the way to the capital, Thimphu, without sufficient knowledge, in order to sell their products at a lower price than desirable after a year’s effort.
Assessment of readiness for e-business in Bhutan revealed that the basic legal and regulatory framework not only for e-business but also for private business in general does not yet exist. The ICT Act was drafted but is yet to be enacted so there is no esignature policy in force. Also, since there is no contract law, there is no dispute resolution mechanism. In these circumstances, few profitable online shops by Bhutanese are actively in use (Wangdi 2004). Some who tried to establish an online catalogue of products with a telegraphic remittance in the past closed the website since it is not profitable given few hits by customers, despite the high cost of maintaining the website without professional web design skills.
One of the emerging issues in the information revolution experienced by Africa is whether or not women are able to access and utilize ICTs. This debate simply reflects the microcosm of existing gender relations, whereby women are socialized towards non-technological roles and career choices. g e n d e r a n d I C Ts f o r d e v e l o p m e n t Development through radio 52 Popularly known as radio listening clubs, the concept of development through radio (DTR) has been applied in Southern Africa for well over 10 years.
