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The economics of ICT: Challenges and practical strategies of ICT use for women’s economic empowerment
2002, Sonia Jorge
This paper looks at challenges and practical strategies of ICT use for women’s economic empowerment. The author provides recommendations on how to proceed in order to improve the conditions leading to women’s economic empowerment vis-a-vis the use of ICTs. The strategies proposed are to provide community access to ICT; familiarisation with, and employment of Telecommunications Development Funds (TDF) and other universal access policies, particularly by ensuring that women’s organisations and gender and ICT advocates are involved in the process of establishing TDF policies and implementation plans; advocating for and developing government funded training programs; developing special interest content in local languages; and gender-aware participatory methods to assess the ICT needs and demands of women (Adapted from author).