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Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

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  • Anita Gurumurthy

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities all over the world. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations whereby women frequently experience relative disadvantage. Amid this inequality are individuals and organisations that are working to use ICTs to further gender equality. These are the issues addressed by the BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and ICTs. The first section of this article consists of extracts from the Overview Report in the Pack. It describes ways in which women have been able to use ICTs to support new forms of information exchange, organisation, and empowerment. The second section, taken from the textbox ‘Telecentres: Some Myths’, describes three assertions which frequently lead to problems in all forms of investment in development-related information exchanges with poor or less powerful groups, not only those relating to telecentres and women.

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  • Anita Gurumurthy, 2006. "Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(6), pages 611-616, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:16:y:2006:i:6:p:611-616
    DOI: 10.1080/09614520600958298
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