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African Women And ICTS: Investigating Technology, Gender And Empowerment

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Website: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-13594...
 
Author: Edited by Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb
 
Date published: Mon, Mar 30, 2009
 
Keywords: women and technology, women's empowerment, gender equity
 
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The revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has vast implications for the developing world, but what tangible benefits has it brought 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 do ICTs mean to African women?


to read more, go to http://awid.org/eng/Women-in-Action/New-Resources/A-New-Publication-IDRC-African-Women-and-ICTs-Investigating-Technology-Gender-and-Empowerment

 

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