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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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Foreword 9
- Introduction 12
- 1 Doing research with women for the purpose of transformation 20
- ONE: ICT tools: access and use 30
- 2 Women’s use of information and communication technologies in Mozambique: a tool for empowerment? 32
- 3 Considering ICT use when energy access is not secured: a case study from rural South Africa 44
- 4 Rural women’s use of cell phones to meet their communication needs: a study from northern Nigeria 55
- 5 Egyptian women artisans facing the demands of modern markets: caught between a rock and a hard place 67
- TWO: Female-only ICT spaces: perceptions and practices 76
- 6 When a gender-blind access policy results in discrimination: realities and perceptions of female students at the University of Zimbabwe 78
- 7 An alternative public space for women: the potential of ICT 88
- 8 Using ICTs to act on hope and commitment: the fight against gender violence in Morocco 99
- 9 The names in your address book: are mobile phone networks effective in advocating women’s rights in Zambia? 108
- THREE: Using ICTs: making life better? 116
- 10 Mobile phones in a time of modernity: the quest for increased self-sufficiency among women fishmongers and fish processors in Dakar 118
- 11 Women entrepreneurs in Nairobi: examining and contextualizing women’s choices 130
- 12 Internet use among women entrepreneurs in the textile sector in Douala, Cameroon: self-taught and independent 144
- 13 ICTs as agents of change: a case of grassroots women entrepreneurs in Uganda 154
- 14 The mobile payphone business: a vehicle for rural women’s empowerment in Uganda 165
- FOUR: Creating new realities 178
- 15 Professional women empowered to succeed in Kenya’s ICT sector 180
- 16 Reflections on the mentoring experiences of ICT career women in Nairobi, Kenya: looking in the mirror 194
- 17 Our journey to empowerment: the role of ICT 204
- Epilogue 218
- Notes on contributors 221
- Index 228
- A 228
- B 228
- C 228
- D 228
- E 228
- F 229
- G 229
- H 229
- I 230
- J 230
- K 230
- L 230
- M 230
- N 231
- O 231
- P 231
- R 232
- S 232
- T 232
- U 233
- V 233
- W 233
- Z 233