Conference Resources: Information Access for Rural Women

The Conference Resources page provides links to documents and websites that have been compiled by conference organizers or contributed by conference participants for the online conference Information Access for Rural Women. Resources are available in English and French.

Resources in English

Rural Access to Information and Communication Technologies: The Challenge of Africa
http://www.telecommons.com/reports.cfm?itemid=122

Rural ICT Access: Digital Divide Annotated Bibliography Database
http://www.telecommons.com/reports.cfm?itemid=213

Bridging the Information Gap: ICTs and Grassroots Women Entreprenuers (CEEWA-Uganda ICT Project Annual Report 2001)
Download WORD document.

Women in Agriculture and Modern Communication Technology: Proceedings of a Workshop
http://www.husdyr.kvl.dk/htm/php/tune98/index2.htm

Information and Communication Technologies for rural development and food security: Lessons from field experiences in developing countries, Hilda Munyua
http://www.fao.org/sd/CDdirect/CDre0055b.htm

World Association for Christian Communication - Women's Programme
http://www.wacc.org.uk/our_work/womens_programme/women_index.html

Article 19: The Global Campaign for Free Expression
http://www.article19.org/

The Communication Initiative - Communication Interventions for Sustainable Development
http://www.comminit.com/

"Making Waves" - Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change
http://www.comminit.com/making-waves.html

Development Through Radio (DTR) Radio Listening Clubs, Zambia
http://www.comminit.com/stimpactpanos/sld-4049.htm

A CD-ROM for Rural Women in Africa: Development of a New Information Tool
http://www.wougnet.org/News/cdupdate.html
Luganda version of the CD-ROM: http://www.iwtc.org/luganda.html

Women Farmers Advancement Network - WOFAN
http://www.rnw.nl/development/html/wofan020123.html

Arican Network for Health Knowledge Management and Communication
Download AfriAfya Newsletter (PDF format).

The Network of Rural Women Producers, Trinidad & Tobago
Download WORD document.

Gender-sensitive Irrigation Design Project
http://www.hrwallingford.co.uk/projects/DFID-KAR/projects/files/R6876.html
Download "Don't get lazy" : Gender-sensitive irrigation design poster. (PDF format)

Wireless School Internet Connectivity (School-based telecenters), Anthony Bloome, Anglophone Africa Coordinator for the World Bank's World Links for Development Program
Download from TechKnowLogia: International Journal of Technologies for the Advancement of Knowledge and Learning. (Subscriber registration required. Registration is free.)

Uganda School-Based Telecenters: An Approach to Rural Access to ICTs, Meddie Mayanja. (Also featured at http://www.TechKnowLogia.org - July-September 2002 issue.)
Download PDF document.

One Village One Computer Project, Maharashtra, India
http://www.akruti.com/1v1c/1v1c.htm

Women's Voices in Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.itdg.org/html/icts/womens_voices2.htm

Helen Keller Africa Program
http://www.hkworld.org/programs/where/africa.html

Community Empowerment and Social Inclusion (CESI)
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/communityempowerment

Forgotten Children
http://www.forgottenchildren.net

Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network
http://www.zwrcn.org.zw

Resources in French

Projet Dimitra: "Femmes rurales et Développement"
Download WORD document.
Download (2 MB) Bureau du Reseau National "Femmes rurales & Developpement"

Femmes rurales chefs de famille en Afrique Subsaharienne, Fatou Sow
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/x0237f/x0237f00.htm

Projet UNESCO: "Donner des moyens d'action aux femmes rurales au niveau communautaire"
http://www.unesco.org/africa/portal/sciences_sociales_2.html#femmes_rurales

NEPAD : Les femmes de la sous-région en conclave à Dakar
http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200204050538.html

Projet Dimitra de la FAO
http://www.fao.org/sd/dimitra

Contact Information

For further information about the conference, please send e-mail to ruralwomen@wougnet.org

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Last update: July-19, 2002