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Title: Need Analysis: the ICT and Gender Issues

Title: Need Analysis: the ICT and Gender Issues. Nwanesi Peter Karubi & Goy Siew Ching Univeristy Malaysia Sarawak (FSS). Do women count In ICT?. Or Do we just Accept the notion that; W omen, take care AND M en, take charge Yet if;

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Title: Need Analysis: the ICT and Gender Issues

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  1. Title: Need Analysis: the ICT and Gender Issues Nwanesi Peter Karubi & Goy Siew Ching Univeristy Malaysia Sarawak (FSS)

  2. Do women count In ICT? Or Do we just Accept the notion that; Women, take care AND Men, take charge Yet if; You educate one man, you educate a person but if you educate one woman, you educate the whole community

  3. But then; • Who benefits from ICTs? • Who is dictating the course of ICTs? • Is it possible to harness ICT’s to serve larger goals of equality and justice? • Is it in any way fundamental to the issues of gender equal right; access to, and Voice?

  4. Yet • ICTs carries strong possibilities for empowerment of the excluded and powerless. • Because this technology (ICT) has many unique dimensions.

  5. ICT has the potential to empower women as well as give them ‘voice’, or right to be heard • ICT provides not only a platform for collective voice, it allows women to access to a vast array of valuable and relevant resources, which can be beneficial in their communities

  6. Fundamentally, Orang Asli women’s collective voices (which they don’t have at the moment) will enhance chances of their needs being included in the policy making of both the state and central governments. • Therefore, ICT provides them a channel to market their products to both local and international markets

  7. ICT provides not only a platform for collective voice, it allows women to have access to a vast array of valuable and relevant resources, which can be beneficial in their communities. These range from health information on child birth and rearing, nutrition to e-commerce to market their hand crafts and arts, and others.

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