Brenda Zulu's presentation for the free webinar "Looking for a gender perspective in ICT4D"

1. Gender and ICTs
experience
Brenda Zulu
@ictjournalist
Africa Interactive Media/Zambian
Bloggers Network

2. Presentation Outline
• Key message
• Strategy
• Gender digital divide
• ICT revolution
• Gender ICT projects examples

3. Key message
• Women needed to embrace ICTs
• Access to new technologies was a
critical for women and girls.
• Embracing ICTs would allow women
and girls to advance themselves.

4. Strategy
• Train women and youth in ICTs
• Build ICT capacity to all Youth, older
persons, women, indigenous peoples,
people with disabilities and remote
and rural communities
• Raise public conciousness on
women’s rights using ICTs as tools

5. Gender Digital divide
• No country platform for ongoing
platform for women on ICTs
• ICT indicators do not consist of
gender disaggregated data
• Lobbying and advocacy should be
ongoing
• ICT gender projects need to be
promoted to help women to fully
participate in the Information society

6. ICT Revolution
• Widening of the gap between urban
and rural areas and individuals
between men and women
• No equitable access to information
and knowledge for all
• Need to improve connectivity
• Develop gender disaggregated
indicators to measure the digital
divide

7. Gender/ICT project
examples
• CrowdMap: https://womentechafrica.crowdmap.com
• Using the power of crowdsourcing & social-
networking Zambia's Women in Technology
organisation Asikana Network is creating the world's
first comprehensive map of Africa's Women in
Technology organisations, projects and initiatives.
• Lusaka's http://asikananetwork.org/ organises
mentoring, training, events and meet-ups for women
trying to break into the male-dominated world of ICT
in Zambia.

8. More Examples
• ZARD and the WiDnet Project
• ZARD documentation
• World Bank Project
• Kalomo women project
• Tele healthcare project

9. Ends
• brendazulu2002@gmail.com
• @ictjournalist
• +260 977 891431
• http://brendait.blogspot.com