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African Women and ICTs : Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment

2009

Challenging though this brief may have been and probably still is, it has undoubtedly been this same brief which has led to the success of GRACE as a viable researcher network contributing not only to the debates on ICT4D from a gender perspective in Africa, in the South and wider afield, but also to the pool of solid and sustainable research capacity in the field of ICT4D and gender. [...] The authors bring together a questioning of the place of ICTs in the lives of women in Africa who are getting on with the daily struggle for greater autonomy and equality with the perceptions of the women themselves, and a context that predominantly focuses attention on the promises of ICTs for development rather than the ongoing divisive in equalities. [...] This situation is problematic if societies as a whole are to benefit from ICTs and use them to further their development, and if the vision of development pursued is to equitably reflect and fulfil the interests and needs of the population, not only of those in positions of power. [...] The research questions and methodologies and the research training, as well as the ongoing mentoring and support pro gramme accompanying the research, were grounded in the principles of critical emancipatory research (Buskens 2002; Buskens and Earl 2008). [...] But this is the challenge undertaken by the authors in this volume – to structure their research, and then their own analysis and interpretation, to try to make sense of the research participants’ perceptions and pursuit of empowering change in the context of their current realities and their dreams.
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Authors

Ineke Buskens, Anne Webb

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Includes bibliographical references and index
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305.42096
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22
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9781552503997 9781848131910
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HQ1240.5.A35
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A379 2009eb
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1 electronic text (ix, 222 p.)
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Canada
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(CaBNVSL)slc00222388 (OCoLC)321068837 (CaOOCEL)425606
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