By Patricia Litho. Is there a direct connection between empowerment and access to information and communication technologies? Patricia Litho interrogates this question through the CEEWA ICT project case study in rural Uganda. She examines the conceptualisation of empowerment, and its relationship with infrastructure, skills, connectivity, access and participation. Much of the discourse on women and information and communication technologies (ICTs) seems to indicate that as a result of using thes more...
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By Graciela Selaimen, GenderIT, 2006. Summary -
In this interview with GenderIT, Olga Paz of Colnodo, a Colombian member of the Association for Progressive Communication (APC), explains that in her country there is still no clear gender perspective on national information and communication technology (ICT) policies. Further, there is still a ways to go in achieving an understanding of the role of ICT as a political and strategic issue that can be productive for social organisations and women's more...
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Successful research results globally indicate that there is no doubt 'Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) improve rural people's livelihoods' (IDRC/Acacia Prospectus 2006-2011). In a rural community context, this phrase is widely understood to mean traditional and modern electronic tools that include telephony, both mobile and fixed, community radio transmissions, Television broadcasting, cinemas, computer hardware, software and the Internet that help to access and use quality info more...
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The Women's Interagency HIV Study, is funded by the National Institutes of Health and is a collaborative, multi-center, longitudinal study designed to comprehensively investigate the natural history and the spectrum and time course of the clinical manifestations of HIV infection in women. There are 3000 HIV-infected women and 1000 HIV-uninfected high-risk women enrolled in the study nation wide and 400 HIV-infected women and 140 HIV-uninfected women enrolled locally.
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Our Lives Matter: Sex Workers Unite for Health and Rights highlights the creative ways in which sex workers in eight countries have organized to defend their human rights and health.It also describes how these groups have challenged unfair incarceration, violence, extortion, eviction, and humiliation; fought for equal access to health care services; and called for sex work to be officially recognized as work.
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The recent spike in food prices, like other natural and human crises, is liable to harm women disproportionately. In this brief, researchers from IFPRI, an international food policy research organization, identify policy responses to the crisis tailored specifically to women’s needs, including greater involvement of women in planning and distributing food aid, agricultural assistance for female small farmers, and improved access for women to credit and markets.
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An activist-couple from Tamil Nadu, an American journalist, a Swiss-born doctor and an activist from Somalia were named on Wednesday as this year’s winners of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “alternative Nobel.” They will share a 2 million kronor (about Rs. 1.34 crore) cash award that will be split in four parts. A Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull founded the awards in 1980 to recognise work he felt was being ignored by the Nobel Prizes. American reporter Amy G more...
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