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This study examines the intersection of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and gender issues, emphasizing women's underrepresentation in ICT fields. It questions societal norms that dictate gender roles in education and technology. The research highlights how increasing women's access to ICT can empower communities and promote gender equality. It explores the potential of ICT to provide women with a platform for their voices, access to valuable resources, and opportunities for economic participation, ultimately transforming their role in decision-making processes.
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Title: Need Analysis: the ICT and Gender Issues Nwanesi Peter Karubi & Goy Siew Ching Univeristy Malaysia Sarawak (FSS)
Do women count In ICT? Or Do we just Accept the notion that; Women, take care AND Men, take charge Yet if; You educate one man, you educate a person but if you educate one woman, you educate the whole community
But then; • Who benefits from ICTs? • Who is dictating the course of ICTs? • Is it possible to harness ICT’s to serve larger goals of equality and justice? • Is it in any way fundamental to the issues of gender equal right; access to, and Voice?
Yet • ICTs carries strong possibilities for empowerment of the excluded and powerless. • Because this technology (ICT) has many unique dimensions.
ICT has the potential to empower women as well as give them ‘voice’, or right to be heard • ICT provides not only a platform for collective voice, it allows women to access to a vast array of valuable and relevant resources, which can be beneficial in their communities
Fundamentally, Orang Asli women’s collective voices (which they don’t have at the moment) will enhance chances of their needs being included in the policy making of both the state and central governments. • Therefore, ICT provides them a channel to market their products to both local and international markets
ICT provides not only a platform for collective voice, it allows women to have access to a vast array of valuable and relevant resources, which can be beneficial in their communities. These range from health information on child birth and rearing, nutrition to e-commerce to market their hand crafts and arts, and others.