African women and ICTs : investigating technology, gender and empowerment / edited by by Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb.
2009
396 B976
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396 B976
Title
African women and ICTs : investigating technology, gender and empowerment / edited by by Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb.
Language
English
Author
Added Author
Imprint
New York : Pretoria, South Africa : New York : London ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, Unisa Press ; Zed Books ; 2009.
Description
ix, 222 p. ; 235 cm.
Summary
[Publisher 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 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword / by Heloise Emdon
Introduction / Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb
Doing research with women for the purpose of transformation / Ineke Buskens
Women's use of information and communication technologies in Mozambique : a tool for empowerment? / Gertrudes Macueve ... [et al.]
Considering ICT use when energy access is not secured : a case study from rural South Africa / Jocelyn Muller
Rural women's use of cell phones to meet their communication needs : a study from northern Nigeria / Kazanka Comfort and John Dada
Egyptian women artisans facing the demands of modern markets : caught between a rock and a hard place / Leila Hassanin
When a gender-blind access policy results in discrimination : realities and perceptions of female students at the University of Zimbabwe / Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Elizabeth Mlambo and Precious Mwatsiya
An alternative public space for women : the potential of ICT / Leila Hassanin
Using ICTs to act on hope and commitment : the fight against gender violence in Morocco / Amina Tafnout and Aatifa Timjerdine
The names in your address book : are mobile phone networks effective in advocating women's rights in Zambia? / Kiss Brian Abraham
Mobile phones in a time of modernity : the quest for increased self-sufficiency among women fishmongers and fish processor in Dakar / Ibou Sane and Mamadou Balla Traore
Women entrepreneurs in Nairobi : examining and contextualizing women's choices / Alice Wanjira Munyua
Internet use among women entrepreneurs in the textile sector in Douala, Cameroon : self-taught and independent / Gisele Yitamben and Elise Tchinda
ICTs as agents of change : a case of grassroots women entrepreneurs in Uganda / Susan Bakesha, Angela Nakafeero and Dorothy Okello
The mobile payphone business : a vehicle for rural women's empowerment in Uganda / Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo
Professional women empowered to succeed in Kenya's ICT sector / Okwach Abagi, Olive Sifuna and Salome Awuor Omamo
Reflections on the mentoring experiences of ICT career women in Nairobi, Kenya : looking in the mirror / Salome Awuor Omamo
Our journey to empowerment : the role of ICT / Ruth Meena and Mary Rusimbi
Epilogue / Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb.
Introduction / Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb
Doing research with women for the purpose of transformation / Ineke Buskens
Women's use of information and communication technologies in Mozambique : a tool for empowerment? / Gertrudes Macueve ... [et al.]
Considering ICT use when energy access is not secured : a case study from rural South Africa / Jocelyn Muller
Rural women's use of cell phones to meet their communication needs : a study from northern Nigeria / Kazanka Comfort and John Dada
Egyptian women artisans facing the demands of modern markets : caught between a rock and a hard place / Leila Hassanin
When a gender-blind access policy results in discrimination : realities and perceptions of female students at the University of Zimbabwe / Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Elizabeth Mlambo and Precious Mwatsiya
An alternative public space for women : the potential of ICT / Leila Hassanin
Using ICTs to act on hope and commitment : the fight against gender violence in Morocco / Amina Tafnout and Aatifa Timjerdine
The names in your address book : are mobile phone networks effective in advocating women's rights in Zambia? / Kiss Brian Abraham
Mobile phones in a time of modernity : the quest for increased self-sufficiency among women fishmongers and fish processor in Dakar / Ibou Sane and Mamadou Balla Traore
Women entrepreneurs in Nairobi : examining and contextualizing women's choices / Alice Wanjira Munyua
Internet use among women entrepreneurs in the textile sector in Douala, Cameroon : self-taught and independent / Gisele Yitamben and Elise Tchinda
ICTs as agents of change : a case of grassroots women entrepreneurs in Uganda / Susan Bakesha, Angela Nakafeero and Dorothy Okello
The mobile payphone business : a vehicle for rural women's empowerment in Uganda / Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo
Professional women empowered to succeed in Kenya's ICT sector / Okwach Abagi, Olive Sifuna and Salome Awuor Omamo
Reflections on the mentoring experiences of ICT career women in Nairobi, Kenya : looking in the mirror / Salome Awuor Omamo
Our journey to empowerment : the role of ICT / Ruth Meena and Mary Rusimbi
Epilogue / Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb.
ISBN
1848131925 (pbk.)
9781848131927 (pbk.)
1848131917 (hbk.)
9781848131910 (hbk.)
9781848131927 (pbk.)
1848131917 (hbk.)
9781848131910 (hbk.)
Location
Library Reading Room 396 B976
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