Tag Archives: gender
The “Culture of Rape” and the Try to Tackle It with ICT
India is not a good country for women’s safety and rape or molestation are present across the everyday life. The movie “India’s daughter“, which soon has been banned in India, portrays the rape and murder of the 23 years old medical student in Delhi. She was brutally gang raped and murdered on a bus at […]
Soap operas are changing the world one episode at the time
Taru is a young educated woman who worked in Suhagpur village’s center, an organisation that provides health services, carries self-help activities and fights injustice by mobilising community action. She is idealistic, intelligent and polite. A Bihari from a higher caste, she befriended the likeable Shashikant who is also involved in social work, but […]
Participatory photography, to which extend is participatory?
I guess we all commonly have heard about a ‘photo voice’, ‘talking picture’ or visual voices’, a technique of participatory photography that puts the camera in the hands of the people that are encouraged to document and share their own reality through photos. Inspired by the Freirean technique of mutual dialogue (presented in my previous […]
The Digital Divide in India: A Gender Perspective
The digital divide is a major threat to use ICT appropriately for development issues. Especially, the gender divide is still a huge issue when it comes to ICT use and excludes women widely from the participation in the digital sphere. A recent rule of a rural muslim panchayat might seem unbelievable from a the perspective of […]
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