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Remote Connections to Empowerment

Navigating the Gendered Digital Divide in Gondar, Ethiopia


Bachelor Thesis, 2014

56 Pages, Grade: 1st Class with Distinction(93%)


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Table of Contents

Statement

Acknowledgements

Table of Figures

Preface

Abstract

Acronyms

Introduction

Chapter One: Conceptual Field
The ‘D’ in ICT4D: Tied to technological determinism and economic growth
Gender in ICT4D: “Add women and stir”
Diluted Empowerment
Identifying and Bridging the gap in ICT4D
Reconceptualising Empowerment in ICT4D: Incorporating choice and ‘jugaad’

Chapter Two: Research Location

Chapter Three: Methodologies
Sampling: Representativeness and limitations of chain-referral methods
Ethnography: Reflexivity and practice
Interviews and Focus Groups
Researching the Youth: triangulating PRA methodologies
Voicing the Silent Women

Chapter Four: An Uneven Landscape of Access

Telecommunications Infrastructure: A monopoly market
Education in Gondar: Stretched resources and unequal provision
Urban-Rural Digital Divide

Chapter Five: The Gendered Digital Divide
Cultural Constraints to ICT access: “The man, he controls the mouse”
Heterogeneity of Women’s Experiences: Tsega and Tadila

Chapter Six: Navigating the Digital Divide

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix

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Title
Remote Connections to Empowerment
Subtitle
Navigating the Gendered Digital Divide in Gondar, Ethiopia
College
University of Cambridge
Course
BA Geography - Gender and Development
Grade
1st Class with Distinction(93%)
Author
Year
2014
Pages
56
Catalog Number
V281113
ISBN (eBook)
9783656746010
ISBN (Book)
9783656746003
File size
13397 KB
Language
English
Notes
This dissertation explores the gender dimension to ICT4D within Northern Ethiopia. It specifically focuses on the multi-faceted barriers to ICT access, and the resulting effect this has upon the social landscape. The dissertation was submitted for a BA in Geography at the University of Cambridge, and was marked at 93%. The dissertation has since won the nationally prestigious Gladstone Memorial Prize, the William Vaughan Lewis Prize, the Jessie Forbes Prize, the Eleanor Sidgwick Memorial Prize, and was nominated for the RGS Gender and Feminist Geography Research Group Dissertation Prize
Keywords
ICT, gender, geography, human geography, gender geography, feminist geography, ICT4D, development, development geography, ICT access, barriers to ICT, digital divide, women, Africa, Ethiopia, Gondar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Alice Apsey, 1st Class, Gladstone Memorial Prize, Jessie Forbes Prize, William Vaughan Lewis Prize, Eleanor Sidgwick Memorial Prize, International Development, African Women and ICTs, Buskens and Webb, Hafkin and Taggart, empowerment, disempowerment, ICT education, Amhara, inequality
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Alice Apsey (Author), 2014, Remote Connections to Empowerment, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/281113

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