An Evaluation of Buwama CMC and Kawolo Telecentre from a Gender Perspective

Summary

Telecentres were established to promote rural access to information so as to foster rural development. However, technologies are socially constructed and thus have different impacts on women and men. Women’s capacity to exploit the potential of the new ICTs as tools for empowerment is constrained in different ways. Some constraints are linked to factors that affect both women and men for instance technical infrastructure, connection costs, computer literacy and language skills, exacerbated in many cases by gender based determinants which particularly disadvantage women.Read more