ICT4D in Women Empowerment Projects

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by Laura Saxer

We have read about many ICT4D related projects with the aim to educate and empower women. Often, you can read about such ambitious projects, addressing a wide range of gender issues in a certain development context and intending to solve them all through implementing ICTs. That’s prior to the projects’ realisations.

And then? How many of you have read about a good practice example where the goals of the project have actually been met?

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Reflections about ICT4D and Participatory Media

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by Laura Saxer

Inspired by an article about blogging for ICT4D [1] I felt that in this context we need room here for some reflection and critical discussion about blogging in general and this blog in particular: What does blogging mean for whom? Who is reading blogs? Who is publishing their thoughts in blogs? Is this contributing to development and social change?

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