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ICTs for Feminist Movement Building: Activist Toolkit (Just Associates, the Association for Progressive Communications and Women’sNet, 2015)

September 3, 2015

This toolkit draws on the experience and contexts of women activists in southern Africa and beyond. The toolkit aims to assist activists to think through their communication strategies in a way that supports movement building. It offers a practical guide to writing a communication strategy and reviews a number of tools (ICTs) and technology-related campaigns which can be used in organising work.

The toolkit is also about feminist practice and how to use tools and communicate in ways that are democratic, make women’s voices stronger and louder whilst challenging stereotypes and discriminatory social norms. The authors hope it will assist activists in making creative, safe and sustainable choices in using ICTs in communication strategies and consider:

  • experiment and be creative in the way you communicate
  • think about how communications can help to build movements for social justice
  • develop a feminist communication strategy for your organisation that amplifies women’s voices and supports them to tell their own stories
  • think about which ICTs to use and when
  • adopt a feminist approach to your use and understanding of ICTs
  • communicate in ways that challenge gender stereotypes
  • think through safety and security concerns that women activists face when using technology
  • understand how power works in design, governance and access to ICTs and challenge inequality in our world
  • design a workshop for your organisation on ICTs and communications.

Filed Under: ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Norms Analysis Tagged With: Feminism, Social Change, Southern Africa, Stereotypes

Learning how to harness Information Communication Technologies for Development (DFID Research Analysis, 2015)

September 3, 2015

The ICT4D programme, which was co-funded with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), examined the positive and negative impacts that ICT can have on the lives of the poor. Research findings are helping to inform emerging policy that looks to empower the world’s poorest people through technology. For example, in Bangladesh, action research effectively demonstrated how a planned national tax on mobile phone usage would have effectively ‘cut off’ half of the poor population. The programme has improved the global knowledge base of how connectivity can be positively harnessed for social and economic development.

Click here for full findings.

Filed Under: ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Research Communication & Uptake, Research Papers

Open Mic Nepal project – tracking perception and rumours circulating on the ground among earthquake-affected communities.

September 3, 2015

By providing local media and outreach workers with facts, Open Mic aims to create a better understanding of the needs of the earthquake-affected communities and to debunk rumours before they can do any harm.

Open Mic Nepal is presented by Internews and #quakehelpdesk implemented by Accountability Lab and Local Interventions Group.

 

Filed Under: Humanitarian, Humanitarian Communications, Nepal Tagged With: Earthquake, humanitarian, Media

A Theory-Based Framework for Media Selection in Demand Generation Programs – The Health Communication Capacity Collaborative HC3 (2014)

August 26, 2015

Synopsis: This guide is a resource to help increase the demand for the 13 reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) commodities identified as underutilized by the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities (UNCoLSC) for Women’s and Children’s Health. The guide provides step-by-step information and practical tools to guide media selection (i.e., communication channels) for demand generation activities using a theory-based approach. The guide has a focus on information and communication technology (ICT) and new media channels, as there is little current guidance available regarding the selection of these channels.

Bibliographic Reference: The Health Communication Capacity Collaborative HC3. (2014) A theory-based framework for media selection in demand generation programs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs.

Click here to Download French Version: http://www.healthcommcapacity.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Media-Selection-in-Demand-Generation-Programs-French.pdf

Filed Under: Media Development, Publications (published in print and/or online)

Supporting women’s agro-enterprises in Africa with ICT : a feasibility study in Zambia and Kenya (World Bank Group 2015)

August 26, 2015

The relationship between gender and agriculture has been studied intensively over the years, and many agricultural interventions now include gender as a crosscutting issue or “mainstream” gender throughout their operations. Studies of the relationship between gender and the use of ICTs in agriculture have started to appear only quite recently, however. The Africa Region of the World Bank views ICTs as potentially transformative technology for rural development and seeks to incorporate the use of ICTs throughout its portfolio of projects. This study was designed to examine the feasibility of integrating ICTs into two large investment programs: the Irrigation Development and Support Project (IDSP) in Zambia and the Kenya Agricultural Productivity and Agribusiness Project (KAPAP). The specific goal was to examine how ICT-based interventions might be designed to strengthen women’s participation in commodity value chains under the two projects.

Filed Under: Economic & Livelihoods, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Kenya, Zambia

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