[UgaBYTES] What to expect from Mobile Platforms

[Ndaula Sulah]

Kiringai

Thanks for sharing this research it is quiet revealing.

Best regards,
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Sulah




On 12/17/09, Kiringai Kamau <kiringai at willpower.co.ke> wrote:
> Dear All,
> This article on mobile money and where the developers of M-PESA are headed
> is interesting as we all seek to promote telecentre sustainability through
> services. We can achieve this best by linking with what is available on this
> ever more popular ICT - the mobile phone...
>
> http://technology.cgap.org/2009/07/14/what-you-dont-know-about-m-pesa/
>
> Kiringai Kamau
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org
> [mailto:ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org] On Behalf Of Kiringai Kamau
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 5:22 PM
> To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org; 'kentel'
> Subject: Re: [UgaBYTES] Gender and ICTs
>
> Francis,
> Thanks for this post which is a good job on the effort of the GEM
> Proponents.
>
> I would have three questions for the Proponents:
> 1. How did they define ICTs, for it seems to narrow on some mainstream ICT
> resources?
>
> 2. Having been involved in Women Entrepreneurship Development I am certain
> of the considerable gains in Women Empowerment, through ICTs and otherwise.
> I notice however that there are gaps in the integration of the technology
> based empowerment. One notes for instance that Women's use of telephone, a
> rather basic ICT portrays an element of cultural dimension - so many phones
> ring in their bags without the owner noticing that it is their phone
> ringing. Some even alert others that their phones are ringing, while indeed
> it is the phone of the one alerting others whose phone is ringing. The
> question then is: Was the cultural dimension of the ICTs ever featured in
> the research to see why women seem to lack as much interest in integrating
> the technologies in their option prioritization?
>
> 3. Some elements of normal life such as money transfer seem to create more
> interest in ICTs even among women. Were services that are offered through
> ICTs gender annotated in the study so that a clearer outcome of the research
> could point what direction service provision on ICTs needed to address women
> to sway their interest?
>
> Much as I appreciate the great interest aroused by this research I admit it
> would be interesting to peep into the raw research results tabulation
> against the research tools that drove the research so that I am able to
> comment much on what the research seems to be saying.
>
> Good outcomes nevertheless and good evening.
>
> Kiringai
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org
> [mailto:ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org] On Behalf Of Mwathi Francis
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:36 PM
> To: ugabytes; kentel
> Subject: [UgaBYTES] Gender and ICTs
>
> The development of information and communications technologies (ICTs) offers
> a great number of new opportunities for men and women. However, unless such
> possibilities are backed by the deliberate formulation of policies that may
> ensure equal gender participation, responsibilities, education and training
> in ICTs, as well as by family support policies at the workplaces where the
> information economy is deployed, old gender biases will persist.
>
> The number of Internet users throughout the world towards the end of 2002
> was 591 million, according to the 2003 Report on E-business and Development
> at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
>
> Likewise, the Internet is no longer a scene where only men are prominent, as
> currently the number of women users is constantly growing, having reached
> about 45% of world totals, and 50% in the industrialised countries.
>
> Despite such advances, ICTs are not neutral to gender. Inequality between
> men and women subsists in that respect and is significantly high in the less
> developed countries  which should be taken into account by all analyses of
> development possibilities. Such differences are barriers that widen the
> already existing gap.
> Read On <http://ugabytes.org/nod/?q=node/669>
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