ICT4D for women: Opportunities and risks
- Thursday Dec 10,2009 01:05 PM
- By editor
- In Analysis and research
Are women passively waiting for policymakers to decide their fate with respect to access to ICTs? “No” says Helen Hambly Odame, Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Design & Rural Development at the University of Guelph in Canada. She writes, “Women are not ‘waiting’ for access to ICTs, but rather using ICTs when they are available to get around the constraints they face in politics, society and economy.” See full text
Communication. Information society, inequality, Women rights, WSIS
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