Hello from Jamaica, were I'm participating in the design of an ICT community program
Strangely here the problem is the opposite. In rural areas 70% of the cybercafes/telecenter users are women, in capital town it is around 50%, but those who do apply for training are 75% women. It's general in the country, for example, 70% of the students of the University of West Indies in Jamaica are women. This is of course starting at schools, where most boys quit early, and girls continue. So the problem here might be to design strategies to get more men, particularly boys and teens, into empowering them-self's, in and through ICTs, and get them off the street, where crime is often their only option... Any country had to deal with similar situation? yacine Karen Higgs wrote: > > APC WNSP AND GKP GENDER AND ICT AWARDS > > Information and communications technologies (ICTs) play a growing role > in the world's societies, and have the potential to help disadvantaged > groups increase their participation in the civic, social, political, and > economic processes critical to achieving change. ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
