[Reader-list] [Fwd: Call for articles for ICT Update issue on women and ICTs in agricultural or rural development]

[Patrice Riemens]

FYI.


[[Would kindly like to request for input to get articles to this call
- which is also available online at
http://wougnet.org/2012/06/ict-update-call-for-articles-on-women-and-icts/.
The last issue on Gender and ICTs was in 2002 -
http://ictupdate.cta.int/%28issue%29/8, and it will be interesting to
capture developments over the last decade. Regards, Dorothy]]


ICT Update magazine is looking for articles for our forthcoming issue
on Women and ICTs.



We would like to hear from anyone working on agricultural or rural
development projects that emphasize the role and position of women in
African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, where ICTs (mobile phones,
computers, GIS, email, internet, radio, TV, etc) are used to improve
employment opportunities or to encourage an interest in traditional
agricultural practices.

We are looking for projects that focus on empowerment, female rural
entrepreneurship, capacity building, etc. If you are involved in such
a project then please get in touch with brief details on the
technology you use, how young people are involved, and how it
contributes to the rural development in ACP countries. We can then
send an article outline and list of questions to cover in the
article, or organise a time for a telephone interview.

Also if you know interesting ICTs for women in rural areas, or
background information, recently published reports, papers or other
documents, on the issue, please let us know. We want to distinguish
new trends, want to know if women have more access to ICTs compared
with some years ago and in relation to men, with what kind of ICTS
they mostly work, and how ICTs can improve the empowerment, job
possibilities, female entrepreneurship etc. of women in rural areas
in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.

If you can help us, please contact us. Also for more information,
send an email to

Evert-jan Quak: evert-jan at contactivity.com
Chris Addison: addison at cta.int


ICT Update (http://ictupdate.cta.int) is a bimonthly printed
bulletin, web magazine, and accompanying e-mail newsletter focusing
on the use of information and communication technologies in
agriculture in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. It is
published in English and French, by CTA (Technical Centre for
Agricultural and Rural Cooperation) in Wageningen in the Netherlands.



Evert-Jan Quak
Editor ICT Update
Contactivity bv
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2312 AV Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)71 514 1166

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