Verso una prospettiva di genere nell’uso delle ICT per lo sviluppo - Brenda Zulu

Gender and ICTs experience

Brenda Zulu@ictjournalist

Africa Interactive Media/Zambian Bloggers Network

Presentation Outline

• Key message • Strategy• Gender digital divide• ICT revolution• Gender ICT projects examples

Key message

• Women needed to embrace ICTs• Access to new technologies was a

critical for women and girls. • Embracing ICTs would allow women

and girls to advance themselves.

Strategy

• Train women and youth in ICTs• Build ICT capacity to all Youth, older

persons, women, indigenous peoples, people with disabilities and remote and rural communities

• Raise public conciousness on women’s rights using ICTs as tools

Gender Digital divide

• No country platform for ongoing platform for women on ICTs

• ICT indicators do not consist of gender disaggregated data

• Lobbying and advocacy should be ongoing

• ICT gender projects need to be promoted to help women to fully participate in the Information society

ICT Revolution

• Widening of the gap between urban and rural areas and individuals between men and women

• No equitable access to information and knowledge for all

• Need to improve connectivity• Develop gender disaggregated

indicators to measure the digital divide

Gender/ICT project examples

• CrowdMap: https://womentechafrica.crowdmap.com• Using the power of crowdsourcing & social-

networking Zambia's Women in Technology organisation Asikana Network is creating the world's first comprehensive map of Africa's Women in Technology organisations, projects and initiatives. 

• Lusaka's http://asikananetwork.org/ organises mentoring, training, events and meet-ups for women trying to break into the male-dominated world of ICT in Zambia.

More Examples

• ZARD and the WiDnet Project• ZARD documentation • World Bank Project• Kalomo women project• Tele healthcare project

Ends

• brendazulu2002@gmail.com• @ictjournalist• +260 977 891431• http://brendait.blogspot.com