Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
Mobiles in-a-box: Tools and Tactics for Mobile Advocacy
Tactical Technology Collective
This toolkit is a collection of tools, tactics, how-to guides and case studies designed to inspire advocacy organisations and present possibilities for the use of mobile telephony in their work. From choosing an audience, to privacy and security issues and also countering technological challenges, Mobiles in-a-box provides effective solutions to enable you get started with using mobiles in your advocacy efforts.
Guide to managing ICT in the voluntary and community sector
ICT Hub, 2007
This guide is aimed at staff and volunteers from voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) who want to manage their ICT better. It is intended particularly for staff and volunteers from small and medium-sized organisations and especially for those people who don't have access to "paid for" technical advice and support. The main sections reflect some of the key issues that VCOs face in managing ICT, from policies and procedures to keep things running; and how to produce an ICT strategy to putting realistic costs into funding bids. Case studies help to illustrate how others have taken up the challenge of ICT and there is plenty of signposting to other information, especially to useful websites.
e-Agriculture.org
e-agriculture.org is a global initiative to enhance sustainable agricultural development and food security by improving the use of information, communication, and associated technologies in the sector. The overall aim is to enable members to exchange opinions, experiences, good practices and resources related to e-agriculture, and to ensure that the knowledge created is effectively shared and used.
Gender and ICT
UNDP-APDIP, Elsevier, 2007
This publication looks at ICT for development through a gender lens and discusses ICT within a gender equality framework. Getting access to ICT potentially offers a number of benefits for women. Through ICT many women have gained access to valuable information they wouldn't have gained otherwise. Technology is however, not neutral to the context it is being applied in. Where ICT has been perceived to be gender neutral the ICT sector still remains primarily a male domain. Although women are starting to use ICT for a variety of purposes, women are mainly viewed as consumers of ICT. This e-Primer examines why it is necessary also to view women as ICT producers, developers and decision makers, in order to ensure further equal participation of women in the Information Society.
Managing and sharing agricultural information with IMARK
FAO, in collaboration with over 30 partner and contributing organisations
The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a partnership-based e-learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks world-wide in the effective management of agricultural information. IMARK consists of a suite of distance learning resources, tools and communities on information management. IMARK is being developed as a series of modules on CD-ROM and on the Internet, offered free of charge, which will introduce the latest concepts, approaches and tools for information management. Each IMARK module focuses on a specific area of information management. All modules are or will be produced in five languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese.
Current modules:
- Management of Electronic Documents
- Building Electronic Communities and Networks
- Investing in Information for Development
- Digitization and Digital Libraries
Supporting women’s ICT-based enterprises: A handbook for Agencies in Development
IDPM/DFID, 2005
A handbook for development agencies designed to assist anyone working to support women’s ICT-based enterprises, specifically micro and small-scale enterprises in developing countries. It looks into the management and operational issues of women’s ICT-based enterprise, with an overall aim to deliver more and better women’s ICT-based enterprises.
Download (
- 82p) or order from DFID
The Gender Digital Divide in Francophone Africa: A Harsh Reality
ENDA, 2005
Women have one chance in three less than men to benefit in the African Information Society. Research on six countries conducted by the Gender and ICT Network, connections between gender and ICTs were found to be widely unrecognised. Looking at control, content, capacities and connectivity, the research measured gender disparities that are present with regard to access, use and mastery of ICTs. The publication presents the main results of the research on the “Gender digital divide in Francophone Africa: data and indicators”, which was carried out in 2004–2005 by the Gender and ICT Network (Réseau genre et TIC), with the sponsorship of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Ottawa, Canada).
WOUGNET CD 2005
WOUGNET (Women of Uganda Network) is an NGO which was initiated in May 2000 by several women's organisations in Uganda to develop the use of ICTs among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively. Its goal is to improve living conditions for women by enhancing their capacities and opportunities for exchange, collaboration and information sharing. WOUGNET is Dimitra's partner organisation for Eastern Africa (covering Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia and Uganda).
The WOUGNET CD was produced in response to a call to increase the diversity of media with which information is exchanged and disseminated. The CD includes the entire WOUGNET website (as of 31 December 2004), the 2004 WOUGNET Update Newsletters, and the reports of WOUGNET workshops held in 2004. It is expected that a new edition of the WOUGNET CD will be produced annually.
To obtain a copy, write to info@wougnet.org or call +256-41-256832 .
Feminia - African women media professionals claim their space on the Internet
Feminia, an African women's network of media professionals, has created and launched her own virtual environment. The Feminia website is a platform for publication and exchange of articles, programmes, experiences and knowledge about women's issues, discussions, training and effective networking. Topics that are dealt with include: women at the top, defying traditions, gender mainstreaming, the price women pay in times of war in Darfur, HIV/Aids and the vulnerability of girls, interviews with e.g. "Bayam- Sellams", Cameroonian market women who are driving forces behind the countries economy.
As with the Feminia network itself, the website is not limited by traditional boundaries between Francophone and Anglophone readers. Some of the articles are English, some in French, depending on the preferred language of the contributing member.
Gender and ICTs for development. A global sourcebook
KIT Publishers, 2005
Around the world information and communication technologies (ICTs) have changed the lives of individuals, organizations and indeed, entire nations. This book is a collection of case studies about women and their communities in developing countries, and how they have been influenced by ICTs. ICTs can have profound implications for women and men in terms of employment, education, health, environmental sustainability and community development.
