Welcome to ICT4WD blogspot

Welcome to ICT4WD blogspot
Women empowering themselves in community center

ICT for rural women's development

by Meera K. Joseph

This research portal is a fruit of Meera Joseph’s commitment to empowering rural women using Information and Communication Technologies. ICT should not lead to mere urbanizations of rural areas, but the empowerment of rural community. The rural areas are needed for earth’s sustainability and rural women are the main resources for agricultural sector and indigenous knowledge. Rural women are marginalized and denied basic access to education and health and often banned from decision-making processes in the community. This portal focuses on the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed at the U N Millennium Summit in Sep 2000 were:
•Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
•Achieve universal primary education
•Promote gender equality and empower women
•Reduce child mortality
•Improve maternal health
•Combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases
•Ensure environmental sustainability
•Develop a global partnership for development

Make sure you acknowledge me if you use this blog (Blog: www.ICT4WD.blogspot.com ). All web page links were accessed on 26th May 2008.

ICTs used by rural women for empowerment


1. Radio, TV and New Media More.., Freeplay Radios More..
2. Computers and other ICT equipment in Community Learning Centre More..
3. Mobile phones – SMS, 3G, GPRS, MMS More..
Eg: Read-Easi language pack with Zulu, Afrikaans, Sotho and Xhosa modules, in addition to English More..
4. Videos - you tube links (/video bar), take back the tech links
5. PDA
6. Internet, e- forum, email and Newsletters like – Anasooya , Pambazuka News
7. FOSS

Authors publications:

JOSEPH, M.K. AND ANDREW, T.N. Aug 2007, “Convergence opportunities and factors influencing the use of internet and telephony by rural women in South Africa and India towards empowerment”; Home Informatics and Telematics: ICT for the next billion, Proceedings of IFIP TC 9, WG 9.3 HOIT 2007, Springer; ISBN: 978-0-387-73696-9

Contact me

Consultations on ICT for rural women empowerment to me by rural women or women’s organisations will be for free until further notice. Click here to contact me.Please feel free to contact me if your organization caters for rural women empowerment using ICT. If you have similar research interests that need to be uploaded or any misinformation in my blog you may post a mail to me.

My Vision: To create a PORTAL FOR RURAL WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT

Friday, June 20, 2008

ICT for socio-economic development of rural women

ICT for socio-economic development of rural women

Digitaldividend: http://www.digitaldividend.org/about/about.htm

(Sister site: http://www.nextbillion.net/resources ) ICTs used to create social and economic "dividends" in poor communities.

ITC’s women empowerment http://www.itcportal.com/ruraldevp_philosophy/women.htm

Microfinance: The remote transaction system http://digitaldividend.org/case/case_rts.htm

Social software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software

Rural Outreach Programme (ROP): (Radio Uganda) http://www.comminit.com/en/node/118305/306; http://www.ropkenya.org/about.htm

GenderIT.ORG http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=i90481-e--1

infoDev http://www.infodev.org/en/index.html

Grameen Bank (microcredit) http://www.grameen-info.org/bank/moa.html

Finding Markets Online: e-commerce in Senegal www.taftaf.com

SEWA Trade and Facilitation Centre http://www.sewa.org/ http://www.sewatfc.org/

Tarahaat http://www.tarahaat.com/

Vodacom's community cell phones
http://www.nextbillion.net/node/1426/print

Women's net http://www.womensnet.org.za/

Virtual Souk www.unpan1.un.org

M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) http://www.mssrf.org/

African crafts website: http://www.africancrafts.com/

Rural Indian Artisan’s marketplace http://www.drishteehaat.com/

Posted by By Meera K. Joseph at 6/20/2008 03:27:00 AM 3 comments

ICT for capacity building, open source

ICT for capacity building, use of open source

Femnet http://www.femnet.or.ke/

Business Information Services (BIS) Project –Tanzania http://www.iicd.org/projects/articles/IICDprojects.import10

Drishti http://www.drishtee.com/role.html

Gyandoot http://gyandoot.nic.in/

Tarahaat www.tarahaat.com

Women's net http://www.womensnet.org.za/

A non-profit organisation focused on the localisation, or translation, of Open Source software into South Africa's 11 official languages http://translate.org.za/

http://www.apc.org/actionapps/
Tansen community multimedia centre, Nepal http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=42485&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Posted by By Meera K. Joseph at 6/20/2008 03:23:00 AM 0 comments

e-governance

E-governance links

Rural Outreach Programme (ROP): Uganda http://www.comminit.com/en/node/118305/306

Gender based e-governance
http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/134321/1/

OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) http://propoorict.ekduniya.net

http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/135896/1/

MPCC –South Africa http://www.southafrica.info/services/government/mpcc.htm

Universal Service Agency
http://www.info.gov.za/aboutgovt/contacts/bodies/usa.htm

“Freedom, Democracy and Gender Equality”: Sierra Leone http://www.slcgg.org/home.htm

Oral Testimony (OT) http://dci-canada.org/RPNov2006.pdf

Posted by By Meera K. Joseph at 6/20/2008 03:19:00 AM 0 comments
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