Source: The Nation
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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
Ana Abelenda, Editor of Choike, presenting the project
The I-K-Mediary Network is an emerging global network of organisations that play a knowledge and information intermediary role in development. These organisations all aim to increase access to and use of research in development contexts by providing portals, gateways or reporting services.
Choike has recentrly engaged in the newtwork and has participated in the 3rd I-K-Mediary Network meeting that took place in Brighton Nov 4-6 2009. Participants included:
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Young Egyptian women are using blogs and online radio stations to beat the censors and to fight for equality. Despite making up only 24% of the workforce in Egypt, 30% of women use the internet. Source BBC. See more
Global Information Society Watch 2008 (or GISWatch), published in print and online by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), the Third World Institute (ITeM), and Dutch development organisation Hivos, collects the perspectives of ICT academics, analysts, activists and civil society organisations from across the globe in over 50 reports. (more…)
Choike.org updates Social Watch Blog
