scholarly journals Gender and Technology: A rights-based and intersectional analysis of key trends

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Ceia ◽  
Benji Nothwehr ◽  
Liz Wagner
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Gender And Technology ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Ict For Development

This report employs an intersectional feminist framework to identify and analyze key trends related to gender and technology. It aims to provide a holistic picture of how gender and technology are embedded in and influenced by a myriad of intersecting issues and challenges that complicate how ICT for development (ICT4D) initiatives concretely impact women’s lives. Based on synthesized research, the report provides recommendations for relevant stakeholders on how to approach the field of international development using technology as a tool for social good in ways that benefit the most marginalized members of our global community.

Does IT Help or Not?

2010 ◽  
pp. 78-96
Author(s):  
Antonio Díaz Andrade
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Study Design ◽  
Geographical Isolation ◽  
Peruvian Andes ◽  
Interpretive Case Study ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Ict For Development

The number of initiatives aiming at improving people’s living conditions through the provision of information and communication technology (ICT) has been increasing around the globe during the last decade. However, the mere provision of ICT tools is not enough to achieve such goals as this chapter illustrates through the examination of the existent conditions in Huanico, a remote village in the northern Peruvian Andes. Using an interpretive case study design, the author analyzes and explains why under circumstances of severe scarcity and geographical isolation computers can do little in helping local people. The findings challenge the sometimes over-optimistic stances on ICT benefits adopted by international development agencies and governments. Conversely, it confirms the need to provide basic infrastructure and stresses the importance of establishing priorities correctly before launching any ICT for development initiative.

scholarly journals Community Reaction towards Social Innovation: A Discussion of Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations Theory in Consideration of Community Emotional Response

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
Bryan Hains ◽  
Kristina Hains
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Innovation Theory ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation Theory ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Social Innovations

While originally utilized within the natural and agricultural sciences, the diffusion of innovation theory has been applied across numerous contexts. As we continue to apply this model within Extension education, international development, and other community education contexts around the world, it not only becomes pertinent to examine how it applies towards social innovations – innovations that improve the social good – but also to understand how communities react when adopting social innovations. Within this article, researchers propose an Emotional-Behavioral Influence Model to deepen the understanding as to how communities respond, emotionally and behaviorally, towards social innovations throughout the adoption process. They then overlay the model onto two examples, one urban and one rural, showcasing its application to communities worldwide. Finally, researchers discuss implications for extension professionals as they preflect on implementing social innovations in communities globally. Keywords: Diffusion of Innovation theory; flow; communities; downshifting; social innovation

scholarly journals The gender dimension of communication technologies in Uganda: documenting ICTs in the daily lives of women

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heloise Nicholl
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Gender And Technology ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Development Communications ◽  
Role Of Information

The field of international and development communications entered a new chapter with the emergence of digital information and communication technologies. Information and communication technologies (leTs) have long been a source of study for theorists and practitioners of international development, starting with study of the telegraph, fixed phone, and radio. However with the advent of digital technologies, the size of devices has shrunken while simultaneously their power has expanded. This paper discusses one segment of the development communications paradigm, the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in relation to gender. One focus that demands greater scrutiny is gender. It's important to ask who is benefiting the most from using ICTs in development. For women in particular, using and accessing communications is more difficult than it is for men, a situation that authors of gender and technology studies have coined 'the Gender Digital Divide'.

scholarly journals Developing Women as ICT Users: A Miniature Scoping Review of Gender and ICTs for Development

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Logan D. A. Williams ◽  
Georgia H. Artzberger
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Inductive Method ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Gender And Technology ◽  
Temporal Moment ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

There is room for topical and theoretical expansion in the literature on gender and ICT4D (information and communications technologies for development) to better prepare critiques and policy applications that improve gender equity. A constructivist approach was taken to understand the relationship between gender and technology utilizing insights from science and technology studies. Existing theory on the relationship between gender and technology was conceptualized as three categories: women using ICTs as laborers, women using ICTs for leisure, and ICTs as infrastructure impacting women.Thirty articles from four journals (Gender, Technology, and Development, Information Technology for Development, Information Technologies & International Development, and Gender and Development) were coded using an iterative-inductive method. The sample encompassed all issues published between July 2016 and December 2016. Findings suggest that, in that temporal moment, scholarship on gender and ICT4D conceptualized the gender and technology relationship by illuminating how women use ICTs for: increased communication and spread of information, and increased productivity. Some scholarship focused on justice, gender and ICT4D or gendered fantasies about ICTs. Missing from that temporal moment was scholarship illuminating: women using ICTs as scientific instruments, ICTs allowing women to participate in outsourced jobs, and ICTs commodifying women.

Women's Health in Developing Countries: Beyond an Investment?

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Mohindra ◽  
Béatrice Nikiéma
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
International Development ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
International Programs ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Public Health Strategies

Most international programs and policies devised to improve women's health in developing countries have been shaped by powerful agencies and development ideologies, including the tendency to view women solely through the lens of instrumentalism (i.e., as a means to an end). In a literature review, the authors followed the trail of instrumentalism by reviewing the different approaches and paradigms that have guided international development initiatives over the past 50 years. The analysis focuses on three key approaches to international development: the economic development, public health, and women-gender approaches. The findings indicate that progressive changes have adopted a more inclusive development perspective that is potentially beneficial to women's health. On the other hand, most paradigms have largely viewed improving women's lives in general, and their health in particular, as an investment or a means to development rather than an end in itself. Public health strategies did not escape the instrumentalism entrenched in the broader development paradigms. Although there was an opportunity for progress in the 1990s with the emergence of the human development and human rights paradigms and critical advances in Cairo and Beijing promoting women's agency, the current Millennium Development Goals project seems to have relapsed into instrumentalism.

Toward a Definition of Transnational Girlhood

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Vanner
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Transnational Feminism ◽  
Global South ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Global North ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Global Agenda

In this article, I join a conversation about the definition and value of the term transnational girlhood. After surveying the fields of transnationalism, transnational feminism, and girlhood studies, I reflect on the representation of girls who act or are discussed as transnational figures. I critique the use of the term, analyze movements that connect girls across borders, and close by identifying four features of transnational girlhood: cross-border connections based on girls’ localized lived experiences; intersectional analysis that prioritizes the voices of girls from the Global South who, traditionally, have had fewer opportunities to speak than their Global North counterparts; recognition of girls’ agency and the structural constraints, including global structures such as colonialism, international development, and transnational capitalism, in which they operate; and a global agenda for change.

scholarly journals The gender dimension of communication technologies in Uganda: documenting ICTs in the daily lives of women

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heloise Nicholl
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Gender And Technology ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Development Communications ◽  
Role Of Information

The field of international and development communications entered a new chapter with the emergence of digital information and communication technologies. Information and communication technologies (leTs) have long been a source of study for theorists and practitioners of international development, starting with study of the telegraph, fixed phone, and radio. However with the advent of digital technologies, the size of devices has shrunken while simultaneously their power has expanded. This paper discusses one segment of the development communications paradigm, the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in relation to gender. One focus that demands greater scrutiny is gender. It's important to ask who is benefiting the most from using ICTs in development. For women in particular, using and accessing communications is more difficult than it is for men, a situation that authors of gender and technology studies have coined 'the Gender Digital Divide'.

Women’s Collectives and Social Transformations in South Asia: Negotiations, Navigations and Self-making

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-315
Author(s):  
Lipika Kamra ◽  
Debarati Sen
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
International Development ◽  
South Asian ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Development Workers ◽  
Development Discourses

This introduction to the special issue lays out the importance of studying women’s collectives in South Asia. We argue in this issue that it is particularly important to examine collectives in this moment because transformations in South Asian women’s lives are increasingly described in individual terms in state policy and international development discourses. The emphasis on individual empowerment alone, however, effaces the subtle negotiations that women carry out with state actors, development workers, families, the market and their communities through collectives. The articles in the special issue examine how women’s participation in collectives and collective spaces enables them to imagine transformations in their lives. We also discuss the limitations of collectives-led transformation.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Constantine Michalopoulos
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
International Development ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Women Ministers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Main Development ◽  
Key Policy

The first part of the Introduction summarizes the main development challenges facing the global community in the 1990s and the key policy and programme changes that became the focus of the collaboration among the four women Ministers for International Development: Eveline Herfkens of the Netherlands, Hilde F. Johnson of Norway, Clare Short of the United Kingdom, and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul of Germany, the so-called Utstein Four. The second part describes briefly the content of each of the chapters of the volume.

scholarly journals Guest Editorial: Reinvigorating Project Management Research and Practice: Perspectives from the Non-Profit Sector

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 5119
Author(s):  
John Lannon ◽  
John Walsh
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Business World ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The University ◽  
Humanitarian Work

The genesis of this Special Issue was a conference on “Delivering Social Good: Managing Projects in the Non-Profit Sector” held at the University of Limerick in October 2014.  The diversity that exists within the broad non-profit sector became apparent at this event, as did its increasing projectification and the variety of organizational forms and models resulting from this trend. Tools, techniques, processes and practices inherited from the business world were described, as were methodologies adopted, adapted and specifically designed for work in areas like international development, humanitarian work and community settings. Insights into the lived experiences of project managers in the non-profit sector were also shared, as were a number of diverse conceptualisations of temporary organisations.

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