What do dot-ORG projects in Mali, Brazil, Macedonia and Uganda have in common beyond the fact that they all involve the provision of some form of information technology? They have all designed strategies that take gender into account, strategies that ensure that women have the same opportunities as men to access and utilize information technology.
This article discusses a selection of four dot-ORG projects from a gender perspective. In Mali, the CLIC project is helping to address a range of issues affecting womens ability to take advantage of IT opportunities, including infrastructure, skills and access for poor women. In Brazil, Programa para o Futuro focused more specifically on providing IT employability training to young disadvantaged men and women and stressed gender awareness throughout the programs development and implementation. In Uganda the Village Phone project replicated the success of the Grameen Village Phone model of Bangladesh, allowing more than 1,000 women to become small entrepreneurs through phone rental services.
More
|
