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community ict
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EKOWISA runs the following programmes in meeting
its vision of using ICTs to promote the development of a gender
sensitive knowledge based society:
• Community
ICT Project
The project catalyzes the creation and exchange of local
content through building the community’s capacity to effectively
utilize information and communication technologies (ICTs) in generating,
storing and disseminating locally relevant information and knowledge
in local languages. Participating communities are at one high density
low income urban site in Highfields, and two rural sites, Mhondoro
and Mutoko. 80% of the community participants are women at each
site.
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• The
E-nable Project
The project strategy has five complimenting elements that build
strongly towards an inclusive policymaking process as well as gather
feedback from urban and rural community groups. The project includes
the establishment of an ICT consultative forum of civil society
organizations that effectively engages in the ICT policy formulation
process. The project also carries out research and produces information
primers used as part of the resource material in raising awareness
amongst civil society actors about various ICT policy and practice
issues. Some of these information primers have been very useful
to policy makers themselves and the private sector. The project
includes activities that engage and encourage community groups to
create and disseminate local content using several, relevant ICT
tools.
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• Southern
African Database for Women Entrepreneurs (SADWE)
This regional platform for participating women entrepreneurs and
women’s organisations involved in entrepreneurship development
focused on the strategic and effective use of ICTs for economic
empowerment. EKOWISA developed and published a database of local,
national and regional women entrepreneurs from Zambia, Zimbabwe,
South Africa benefiting from using ICTs for their enterprises. This
database is accessible to women entrepreneur traders in the diasporas:
UK Canada, USA, Asia and Middle Eastern countries. The project held
workshops for women entrepreneurs and created linkages with women
economists, and other critical stakeholders involved in fair and
international trade.
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• Southern
African Network for Women Economists (SANWE)
The project encourages the engagement of women economist academia,
the media, women entrepreneurs to work together by researching,
publishing and applying policies that have been analyzed through
a gender lens. SANWE has done the following activities:
• Carry out and promote gender sensitive research on micro/macroeconomics;
• Train and re-tool women economists (capacity building) on
gender issues;
• Lobby for and advocate gender sensitive economic policies
at national, regional and global level and,
• Promote networking and collaboration with women’s
organizations and other organizations focusing on gender and economists.
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Women's
ICT Training Centre
The women’s ICT training
centre is being established by E-Knowledge for Women in Southern
Africa (EKOWISA). This project is inspired by current non-use or
minimal use of ICTs by women due to gender based disadvantages such
as levels of literacy and education, lack of productive resources,
lack of time due to the multiplicity of women’s roles in society
and cultural assertions that ICT is male domain. ICT illiteracy
is prevalent among all types of women e.g. professional women to
housewives.
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