GENDER AND TELECENTRE

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Comment by Dr. Barbara Fedock on August 10, 2009 at 8:32am

Jan,

I would like to do research on a comparison of achievement levels based on gender. From working with females in the past, I feel that the data will show that females are eager learners who benefit from online education.

Barbara

Comment by Jan Herder on August 9, 2009 at 5:37pm

Hi, this study confirms that females are eager learners and greatly benefit from the use of ICT in distance education.
http://taskforce.wigsat.org/?q=faq/show/12#q_25
I wonder if your experience shows girls excelling when given the opportunity to have equitable access to ICT's?
Jan

Comment by DR. SYED MD. ZAINUL ABEDIN on August 2, 2009 at 11:55pm

The comment by Dr. Barbara is very encouraging.I request her to advance the program she intends to introduce.
Best luck,
Zainul

Comment by Dr. Barbara Fedock on July 30, 2009 at 12:51pm

Research shows that in many urban-rural global communities, females fail to complete at least a middle school education. Most girls are under-served, a factor that often influences the cycles of poverty affecting many communities.

In some of my recent grant writings, I have focused on under-served females. I have written several grants requesting funding for scholarships for secondary female students to take Personal Learning Center International (PLC/i) online, low cost, quality high school courses. The Web site is http://www.plc.edu. At this point, funding has not yet been awarded.

PLC/i creates safe e-communities in which girls are equal, as are all students. Females, as well as all students, learn how to build commuty, how to agree to disagree, how to think critically, how to problem solve, and how to engage in real world application projects in the 21st Century.

Perhaps if some of the females in your community can take PLC/i online courses, they will apply the principles learned in the online e-community to build better Telecentre communities. As Liaison to the UN for PLC/i, I am willling to create a Web site for girls from all global communities who are enrolled in PLC/i courses to join a special discussion forum. Using formative assessments, surveys, and examination of discussions, I will disaggregate the data and post it in this forum to help Telecentres best facilitate the needs of females.

To find the key for successful Telecentre operations for females, females must have an opportunity to engage in critical thinking skills, to problem solve in a secure environment that builds a sense of community, and to voice their opinions in a manner that promotes equality.

Barbara Fedock

Comment by Sall-Jean Shackleton on July 8, 2009 at 7:57am

Hi all, thank you for the interesting dicsussion.
here in South Africa, my organisation has launched a campaign to reach young people about safe spaces using mobile social networks. It's called "Keep your Chats Exactly That". We launched this campaign because your women in our girls project were telling us that they were being harassed and felt uncomfortable in online/mobile spaces.

Our girls use our training facility computers for access, as do female community members (we don't really have a traditional tele-centre) . Our centre is only open to men once a week because we did find that the centre was used predominantly by men and women stopped coming. I have heard form tele-centre managers that having a 'women and girls' only access day improved their numbers of women and girls using the tele-centre - I wonder if other people know if this has had the same affect elsewhere?

Comment by DR. SYED MD. ZAINUL ABEDIN on June 20, 2009 at 6:44am

I earnestly hope that Madam Claire will kindly add one discussion of her choice.The group will invariably be enriched by the talented contribution from personalities like Madam Claire.
Thanks for active participation of the learned members of the community.
Best luck.
Zainul

Comment by Niranjan Meegammana on June 14, 2009 at 5:56pm

Dear Friends
I started a Discussion on a Telecenter e Conference Pilot
We are looking for Asia - Pasific - Africa - Lathin America - North America - Arabian ++ partners (Telecenters and Networks)

http://www.telecentre.org/forum/topics/e-conferencing-21st-century


Like to have more people on board to see feacibility.

Women in ICT4D is a special session we want to have


Niranjan Meegammana
http://www.shilpasayura.org

Comment by Ananya Raihan on June 5, 2009 at 2:23pm

I really appreciate launching of the group. I think we have to invite mainstream gender advocates into the group.

We may launch a campaign to integrate gendr-basaed approach in developing, desigin, implementing, and evaluating any ICT4D project.
Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) can be a very good tool for this. Please go to the link to know more about GEM:http://www.apcwomen.org/gem/?q=frontpage

Comment by Jannat on June 5, 2009 at 10:04am

The comments given by Claire and Chandita seem very much relevant for the proper functioning of the telecentres.Especially Claire refers to the real problems faced by the women engaged in telecentres.I appreciate her points and concerns.The deliberation may generate some valuable suggestions which will help the women to overcome the gender based problems being faced in the the telecentres.

Comment by Chandita Mukherjee on June 3, 2009 at 1:06am

Dear Claire
Thanks for your comments!
You have rightly pointed out the dual pulls in the lives of women and how the family is very important for the stability of an individual. The good thing about digital technologies is that they allow us to work at any time and the work can be taken to the home. This makes combining work and home duties more manageable for women compared to traditional office, factory or farm-based work.
Other comments, folks?
Chandita

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