Economic Empowerment
Blogs for African Women Project Gets Nigerian Women Hooked on Technology
APC Africa Women Member Wins Harambee Prize
Blogs for African Women (BAWo) has taken hold of the Nigerian blogging spirit to strengthen women's activism. Oreoluwa Somolu, BAWo's founder, sees blogging as a way to get women “hooked on technology”, and gain important skills for community and NGO leadership at the same time. Networking for Success, BAWo's second initiative getting women into the blogosphere, has just been awarded an Harambee Small Grant to increase BAWo's collaboration capacity.
Paddling in Circles While the Waters Rise: Gender Issues in ICTs and Poverty Reduction
Can ICTs help reduce poverty? After so many decades of development theory and practices, why is poverty on the rise?
Annonce du 3e appel à candidatures de GenARDIS
Un fonds de subvention pour traiter les questions de genre dans le domaine des technologies de l’information et de la communication pour l’agriculture et le développement rural en Afrique, dans les Caraïbes et le Pacifique (Pays ACP).
Gender, Agriculture and the Information Society: announcing Round 3 of GenARDIS
The GenARDIS Small Grants Fund to address Gender Issues in Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP Countries) has announced its Call for Applications.
ICT and job flexibility: a solution for women's employment?
A recent conference on Women's Perspectives in the Labor Market in the Czech Republic touched on a sore nerve: does the job flexibility of ICTs facilitate women working, or does it enable women's exploitation? The panel on Women and IT brought together researchers, representatives from companies, internet and computer trainers, and women information technology (IT) specialists, all with varying views on this debate.
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IT and women – can they satisfy one another?
Have you just ended your maternity or parental leave? Have you been out of the labour market for a longer period? Have you just finished your degree? Are you interested in IT or want to try something new? Do you want to find out if IT could be an option?
A Gender-responsive Information Society: A Priority in the Asia-Pacific Beijing +10 Agenda
The following is a report from the Asia-Pacific Women's Watch onsite report of the B+10 Intergovernmental High Level Meeting organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission of Asia Pacific. Daily reports from the HLM will be available through the APWW-mailing list, and will also be made available from the APNGO-Forum website at http://ap-ngo-forum.isiswomen.org
A Gender-responsive Information Society: A Priority in the Asia-Pacific Beijing +10 Agenda
Gender and ICT Policy Advocacy: implications for the women's movement
Achievements: The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 is generally regarded as a watershed in understanding of information technology as a powerful tool that women could use for mobilization, information exchange, and empowerment. Beijing was also the first international conference at which substantive issues relating to women, information and communication technology were debated, albeit somewhat on the margins of the core agenda.
APC Africa Women Member Researches Women, Empowerment and ICTs in Africa
Kutoma Wakumuna, who is currently undertaking a PhD in Gender and Information Communication Technologies at Coventry University, is interviewed by Sylvie Niombo, APC Africa Women Co-coordinator.
Kutoma Wakumuna is a Zambian woman researching women and ICTs. She recently joined the APC Africa Women (AAW) network. She has published several research papers on gender and ICTs and also contributed to a case study for the “Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development" project coordinated by the University of Manchester's Institute for Development Policy and Management.
