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Gender Perspectives in Introduction to Access

Gender Perspectives in Introduction to Access. Gender Module #2 ITU Workshops on Sustainability in Telecommunication Through Gender & Social Equality. Presentation #1:. The ‘Dirty Little Secret’ About Access. Outline. Definitions Universal Service Universal Access Other Key Concepts

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Gender Perspectives in Introduction to Access

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  1. Gender Perspectives in Introduction to Access Gender Module #2 ITU Workshops on Sustainability in Telecommunication Through Gender & Social Equality

  2. Presentation #1: The ‘Dirty Little Secret’ About Access

  3. Outline • Definitions • Universal Service • Universal Access • Other Key Concepts • Information Revolution • Convergence • ICTs • (Advanced) Information Society • Digital Divide

  4. Outline 2 • Link Between Telecom & Development • Moving Beyond Technological Determinism • ‘The Dirty Little Secret’… • Implications • Questions

  5. Definitions • Universal Service: Availability of a phone service for the individual subscriber • Statistically measured as the percentage of households with a telephone • Universal Access: Being able to use a telephone; the affordability and availability of a public phone

  6. Key Concepts • Information Revolution: The globalizing trend in networked digital ICTs currently interacting with other variables to transform the ways in which individuals, corporations, public and private organisations create, process, utilise and disseminate information and, ultimately, reconfigure knowledge for the purpose of adding value to their ongoing interactions • (Babb 2003)

  7. Key Concepts 2 • Convergence: The confluence of the once-distinct telecommunication, broadcasting, and computing sectors based on the digitization of technologies and services • ICTs: Information and Communication’s Technologies. New digital ICTs like the Internet are capable of delivering multimedia content

  8. Key Concepts 3 • (Advanced) Information Society: Shares many commonalities with the knowledge society • It is a society that supports knowledge formation • It owes much to the evolution of digital ICTs • It seeks to address the challenge of social justice • Requires information not only to be plentiful but accessible to the entire society

  9. Key Concepts 4 • Digital Divide: The significant/growing rift between those who have access to new digital ICTs/evolving frameworks & those who do not • Some argue the divide is based on gender, race and socio-economic status, with women, people of colour and the poor largely shut out of the evolving information society

  10. Telecommunication & Development • Is there a correlation between investment in telecom & development? • Causality runs both ways ICT investments Economic growth ICT investments Economic growth Heather Hudson, 1997

  11. Product Cycles • ICT policy-making product cycle has moved… • …From utopian pronouncements to critical analyses • Many policy-makers euphoric about ICT potential… • …But scholars are becoming more critical • Yet, there is still a strong belief that new digital media hold tremendous promise for development Ernest J. Wilson III, 1997

  12. If You Have a Hammer… • To someone with a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail… • It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail… -- Abraham Maslow

  13. Beyond Technological Determinism • Each society has its own strengths/weaknesses • Different levels of receptivity to technology/change • Every developmental issue facing less advanced economies is not equivalent to Maslow’s nail • Nor is its solution necessarily to be found in the hammer of a specific technology/technological application • i.e., the new digital ICTs/Internet & the services/applications they make possible…

  14. The ‘Dirty Little Secret’…

  15. Education, Education, Education • Access is not just about the technology • Access is also about education & learning: • Basic to advanced literacy • Basic to advanced computer skills • Basic to advanced critical-thinking skills • Social learning

  16. Behavioural Cognitive Environmental Social Learning Theory • People learn through interactions with society, using modelling to shape their own lives and those of others

  17. Implications The Impact of Social Learning on Education, Equality, Inclusion and Access

  18. Questions • Give examples of some ways in which the success and/or failure of access strategies might be influenced by a person’s or community’s level of education, literacy and/or social learning? • Give examples of some ways in which gender equality and inclusion in telecommunication’s sectors might be influenced by a person’s or community’s level of education, literacy and/or social learning?

  19. Questions 2 • Give examples of some ways in which the digital divide is reinforced by a person’s or community’s level of education, literacy, social learning, and/or economic development? • What are your solutions/strategies for addressing these challenges?

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