Gender and digital divide 2000–2008 in two low-income economies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Kenya and Somalia in official statistics

Brännström, Inger

doi:10.1016/j.giq.2011.03.004

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“…Also, we seek to identify the factors that explain the DGD in the region. As Hafkin and Huyer () correctly observed some years ago (see also United Nations, : 20), the situation has not changed appreciably since then (Brännström, ), while the DGD continues to attract considerable popular interest and commentary, passionate theorizing and sweeping policy prescriptions based largely on anecdotal evidence and a narrative encapsulated within the male worldview of the role of ICTs (United Nations, ), like many other endemic puzzles in Africa, systematic scholarly treatment has not kept pace, primarily because of data limitations. Where data are available at all (e.g., Intel, ), they are frequently confined to macro‐level records which preclude disaggregation and micro‐level analysis of the type we report here (see Deen‐Swarra et al., 2012 for an important exception).…”

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The Digital Gender Divide: Confronting Obstacles to Women's Development in Africa

Alozie¹,

Akpan‐Obong²

2016

Development Policy Review

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The African Union has declared 2010–2020 as the African Women's Decade to accelerate African women's development. However, to achieve the decade's goals, African countries must acknowledge the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in consolidating human capital. This research investigates gender disparities in access and use of ICTs in sub‐Saharan Africa and finds that men are more likely to own and use the technologies. Education, socioeconomic status, domesticity and traditionalism are all linked to ICT use. However, the gender gap does not arise as a result of differential returns to these factors for men and women. Rather, it materializes when fewer women have the resources, or are more disadvantaged in accessing and using ICTs. Implications are discussed.

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The Digital Gender Divide: Confronting Obstacles to Women's Development in Africa

Alozie¹,

Akpan‐Obong²

2016

Development Policy Review

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“…It was, therefore, suggested that solving the problem of the digital divide is just accommodating access to ICT. Ignoring that access is only the first step, and there is no guarantee of continued use [39,40]. However, when the researchers began to go beyond the access differences, the original definition declined and the concept of the digital divide was extended [38].…”

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Modeling the Measurements of the Determinants of ICT Fluency and Evolution of Digital Divide Among Students in Developing Countries—East Africa Case Study

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During the last decade, information and communication technology has brought remarkable changes to the education style of developed countries, especially in the context of online learning materials accessibility. However, in developing nations such as the East African (EA) countries, university students may lack the necessary ICT training to take advantage of e-learning resources productively. Therefore, the comprehension of the key factors behind ICT fluency is a significant concern for this region and all the developing countries in general. This paper applies the Concentration Index and proposes a Logistic Regression based model to discover the key determinants of ICT fluency and to explore the evolution of the digital divide among EA students within the four years of undergraduate studies. To identify the principal determinants, data composing of 1237 participants is collected from three different universities in EA within a one year period. The experimental results indicate that the digital divide among students decreases quite fast from the first year to the fourth year. Regression computational findings show that the key determinants of ICT fluency are the student urban/rural origin, computer ownership, computer experience, class year, and major. The findings provide heuristic implications for developers, practitioners, and policy makers for an improved ICT environment implementation in EA and the developing nations in general.

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“…This moderate preference for virtual concepts was based on the assumption that these provide better potential for up-scaling of the use of such concepts. However, the use of digital interactive media presumes access to such media that may not be available globally (DiMaggio et al 2001, Fuchs and Horak 2008, Brännström 2012. Easily reproducible physical interaction concepts (Oujia Drawing) might be better to achieve scale in such conditions.…”

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A sense of change: media designers and artists communicating about complexity in social-ecological systems

Vervoort¹,

Keuskamp²,

Kok³

et al. 2014

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ABSTRACT. To take on the current and future challenges of global environmental change, fostering a widespread societal understanding of and engagement with the complex dynamics that characterize interacting human and natural systems is essential. Current science communication methods struggle with a number of specific challenges associated with communicating about complex systems. In this study we report on two collaborative processes, a short workshop and longer course, that aimed to harness the insights of interactive media designers and artists to overcome these challenges. The two processes resulted in 86 new interactive media concepts which were selected by the participants and organizers using set criteria and then evaluated using the same criteria by a panel of communication and media design experts and a panel of complex systems scientists using the same criteria. The top eight concepts are discussed in this paper. These concepts fell into the categories of serious games, group interaction concepts, and social media storytelling. The serious games focused directly on complex systems characteristics and were evaluated to be intuitive and engaging designs that combined transparency and complexity well. The group interaction concepts focused mostly on feedbacks and nonlinearity but were fully developed and tested in the workshops, and evaluated as engaging, accessible, and easy to implement in workshops and educational settings. The social media storytelling concepts involved less direct interactions with system dynamics but were seen as highly accessible to large scale audiences. The results of this study show the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration between complex systems scientists, designers, and artists. The results and process discussed in this paper show the value of more structural engagement of interactive media designers and artist communities in the development of communication tools about human and natural systems change.

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Gender and digital divide 2000–2008 in two low-income economies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Kenya and Somalia in official statistics

Cited by 42 publications

References 16 publications

The Digital Gender Divide: Confronting Obstacles to Women's Development in Africa

The Digital Gender Divide: Confronting Obstacles to Women's Development in Africa

Modeling the Measurements of the Determinants of ICT Fluency and Evolution of Digital Divide Among Students in Developing Countries—East Africa Case Study

A sense of change: media designers and artists communicating about complexity in social-ecological systems

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