Posts on the topic "gender "
26/04/2012
With the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of Girls in ICT, the e-Agriculture team had the opportunity to meet with Marina Cherbonnier, YPARD's Web and Communications Officer, and discuss how Information and Communication...
26/04/2012
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), a part of the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs mentions Pag la Yiri's community radio initiative as a good example in the "Deepening Participation and Improving Aid Effectiveness Through...
25/04/2012
The 4th Thursday of every April has been designated as the International Day of Girls in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), with the purpose of raising awareness of the importance of involving girls in ICT fields, and to promote the benefits...
16/04/2012
Pag la Yiri is a women organisation in the Southeast of Burkina Faso that, together with IICD set up the first radio station in the region that informed the population about agriculture, health and culture in local languages.
In February of this year,...
05/04/2012
Background
The Fostering Agricultural Competitiveness Employing Information Communication Technologies(FACET) project is managed by FHI 360 and funded by USAID/AFR/SD/EGEA, the team that oversees the design and implementation of USAID’s Feed...
28/03/2012
ICTs can be the source of empowerment to women, but they are not a silver bullet that will overcome traditional disparity based on gender.
Follow the link below for a video, speaker bios and power point slide.
In the video, featured speakers Siobhan...
08/03/2012
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) has been working for more than three decades on how to improve the livelihoods of women in agriculture. Their research shows that by improving women’s access in key areas (e.g. resources,...
07/03/2012
Mary is a smallscale farmer in Mumbwa accessing market information through satellite connectivity and mobile telephony provided by Connect Africa
Video interview and story by: Georgina Smith, Connect Africa
Mary Mumba is a smallscale farmer who...
06/03/2012
The term "digital divide" refers to the gap between individuals, households, businesses and geographic areas at different socio-economic levels with regard both to their opportunities to access information and communication technologies (...
06/03/2012
More and more people today use the mobile phones for accessing information and news, conducting financial transactions as well as for a range of professional and personal reasons. And as increasingly, information is found and accessed online and via...
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