ICT Publications (Scroll down to see more details)

Gender and ICT Policy Advocacy http://www.apcwomen.org/projects/policy_advocacy

ICT’S for grassroots by International Telecommunication Union http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict_stories/themes/grassroots.html

New technologies creating new opportunities for women by Sophia Huyer
http://archive.wigsat.org/cswhuyer.pdf

Gender Issues in ICT policy in Developing Countries: An Overview by Nancy Hafkin
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/ict2002/reports/Paper-NHafkin.PDF

Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) by International Telecommunication Union
http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-D/index.aspx

Mobile for good
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict_stories/

African content providers : http://allafrica.com/publishers.html

African ICT issues: top news: http://allafrica.com/urbanissues/

Food and agriculture :top news: http://allafrica.com/agriculture/

Farmers go to market via cellphones http://www.manobi.sn/sites/za/index.php?M=9&SM=19&Cle=63

IK Practices Database http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/ikdb/search.cfm

Quick guide: Prominent initiatives promoting the development of low-cost computing devices for developing countries http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.282.html

ICT and Rural Livelihoods
http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.359.html

ICTs can be powerful development tools
http://www.infodev.org/en/Page.Why.html

Low cost and free technologies
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=D04AB1F8-17A4-0F78-310F5F4479DEEE86

Can ICT empower people?
http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5871&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Micro-Payment Systems and Their Application to Mobile Networks
http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.43.html

Community radio and empowerment
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22022/11472542151Steve_Buckley.doc/Steve%2BBuckley.doc

Spreading the impact of community radio stations across Zambia
http://www.iicd.org/articles/iicdnews.2004-12-14.1069141762

Mobile Banking: Knowledge Map and Possible Donor Support Strategies
http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.169.html

Constructing Open learning communities to inspire a changing world.
http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/lwf/dl/simulation.pdf

From the APC WNSP Gender Evaluation Methodology web site: “Internet and ICTs for Social Change” p.3. Link: http://www.apcwomen.org/gem/Gender_ICT/index.htm

Quick guide: Alternative models to provide connectivity in low- and no-bandwidth environments: http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.109.html

Global Governance Initiative, Executive Summary 2004, p.2 Link: http://www.weforum.org/pdf/Initiatives/GGI%20summary%20010604.pdf

NEPAD, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development
From the official NEPAD web site. Link: http://www.touchtech.biz/nepad/files/en.html

Publications by Sophia Huyer http://list.matrixlinks.ca/pipermail/ictforruralwomen/2004-January/author.html

Open Source Case Studies and Trends for NGOs
http://www.sangonet.org.za/conference2007/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=1

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I T and I ‘C’ T 4 D related Publications

MEERA JOSEPH “Evolution of UML for real-time object-oriented modeling”; SAIEE Elektron, Vol 20 No.5 May 2003, Pg 42-43.

MEERA JOSEPH “The UML for Data modelers”; SAIEE Elektron, Vol 21, No. 4, April 2004 issue, Pg 72.

MEERA JOSEPH “Java for Engineers and Scientists”; SAIEE Elektron, Vol 22 No.5, May 2005 pg 59,60.

MEERA JOSEPH “Software Engineering: Agile Manifesto”; SAIEE Elektron, Vol 22 No.9, Sep 2005 pg 70-71.

JOSEPH, M.K. AND ANDREW, T.N. 2006. "An Overview of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Initiatives in Rural Africa Towards Empowerment", IST-Africa 2006 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds). IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2006, ISBN: 1-905824-01-7

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

JOSEPH, M.K. AND ANDREW, T.N. June 2008, “Participatory Approaches for the Development and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for rural farmers” IEEE Xplore library, Paper to be presented for ISTAS 08 conference.

Poster presentation
MEERA JOSEPH “Information Retrieval Evaluation and Analysis of Search Engines”; Poster for the 6th Annual WWW Applications conference in Sep 2004 (International conference - Johannesburg)

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About me

I Meera K. Joseph am currently working as a senior lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, with a special research interest on ICT for women’s development (ICT4WD). This blog will allow me to share my research interest with you. If you have similar interests that need to be uploaded in my blog you may post a mail to me. I have linked some You Tube videos that are specific to women empowerment using ICT

I am actively involved in the Women in Engineering event and F1 in schools project at University of Johannesburg. I am currently doing my Doctoral degree with special focus on appropriate ICT for women empowerment.

During my last 8 years I was seduced by Information Technologies working as tutor in different countries and shifting to web developer for many departments at the University. I teach and/or coordinate many subjects for our faculty.

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