[UgaBYTES] What to expect from Mobile Platforms

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Dear Kiringai,

Thank you for the valuable message.

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From: Kiringai Kamau <kiringai at willpower.co.ke>
To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org; kentel <kentel at list.kenyatelecentres.org>
Sent: Fri, December 18, 2009 6:26:10 AM
Subject: [UgaBYTES] What to expect from Mobile Platforms

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.
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