African Women and ICTs Creating New Spaces

This book explores the ways in which women in Africa utilize Information and Communication Technologies to facilitate their empowerment; whether through the mobile village phone business, through internet use, or through new career and ICT employment opportunities. Based on the outcome of an extensive research project, this timely books features chapters based on original primary field research undertaken by academics and activists who have investigated situations within their own communities and countries. The discussion includes such issues as the notion of ICTs for empowerment and as agents of change, ICTs in the fight against gender-based violence, and how ICTs could be used to re-conceptualize public and private spaces.

INEKE BUSKENS is a Cultural Anthropologist and was Head of the Centre for Research Methodology at South Africa's Human Science Research Council for 5 years. She founded Research For the Future in 1996 and now works as an independent international research and process facilitation consultant. ANNE WEBB is a feminist qualitative researcher rooted in participatory action research approaches.

Introduction
Growth and Development Trends, 1960-present
Structural Change and Economic Growth
Has Trade Integration Caused Greater Divergence?
Macroeconomic Policies and Growth Divergence
Governance, Institutions and Growth Divergence
Conclusion
Appendices
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African Women and ICTs Creating New Spaces with Technology

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