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Changing selves, changing societies : women, gender and ICT in Africa and the Middle East
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Buskens, Ineke Webb, Anne |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Just as in GRACE 1, the research capacity development in GRACE 2 was the crux of the three longer-term objectives of the initiative: the formation of a gender and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) research network, the establishment of a research base, and public policy influence. The GRACE 2 Project built on the work of GRACE 1 on several levels: 1) the regional scope expanded to include the MENA region bringing the total number of teams to twenty-one; 2) the project’s methodological strategy was grounded in an action research logic which accommodated in addition to qualitative research also quantitative and participatory research methods and processes; and 3) endeavors to disseminate the research findings were expanded and intensified. The eight sub-project investigations in Africa, as well as the thirteen sub-projects in MENA focused on a wide range of ICTs and involved a wide variety of different women users, and in some cases developers, who faced very different challenges and opportunities. Explicating the specific nature of each ICT under investigation, the specific situation of the women engaging this ICT, and the way this relationship developed and evolved, enabled us to speak to the interaction between gender and ICTs, and the direction for potential change in concrete, specific and in-depth ways. It also stimulated us to induct mid-level theoretical concepts to approach women, gender and ICT and contribute to the understanding of both women’s plights and journeys of empowerment in the Knowledge Society. Through the Research Support Grant we have brought together the understandings and analyses that emerged in GRACE 2 into a book manuscript that will be published by Zed Books, and co-published online by IDRC. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/52190/IDL-52190.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
