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DOT-COMments Articles by Intervention: ICT and Women
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Title: The Yemeni High School Internet Pilot Project
Issue: December 2005, Issue 14
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: The Yemeni High School Internet Project is a three-year initiative funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative, through USAIDÂ’s dot-EDU project. This article provides an overview of the project's progress towards reaching its objective of improving teaching and learning through ICT, with a strong emphasis on increasing girls' access to ICT.
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Title: Gender Strategies in dot-ORG Projects
Issue: May 2005, Issue 11
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: What do dot-ORG projects in Mali, Brazil, Macedonia and Uganda have in common beyond the fact that they all involve the provision of some form of information technology? They have all designed strategies that take gender into account, strategies that ensure that women have the same opportunities as men to access and utilize information technology.
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Title: Mali: Selected Snapshots of the 12,000 CLIC Clients (dot-ORG)
Issue: March 2005, Issue 10
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: After 10 months of operation, most of the Community Learning and Information Centers that were established under the dot-ORG pilot funded by USAID/Mali are taking off. Early challenges in building a client base and establishing reliable Internet connections have been overcome, yet other challenges remain ahead.
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Title: Piloting PDAs to Improve Data Collection and Monitoring of Health Projects in Nepal
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: USAID/Nepal and USAID/Asia and Near East Bureau (ANE) are funding the dot-ORG Nepal Health Monitoring Pilot Project to explore the use of ICTs for health monitoring. With SATELLIFE and other dot-ORG partners, the project is testing hand-held computers or personal digital assistants (PDAs) and global positioning systems (GPS) to be used by community health workers to quickly and accurately collect important survey data on vitamin A distribution.
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Title: Semi-Literate Mekong Women Learn Using Video Compact Discs
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: dot-EDU is using low-cost video compact discs (VCD) to help reach at-risk youth in South East Asia in this core-funded pilot activity. The project is designed to gauge the success of applying this versatile and ubiquitous technology to meet critical learning needs of young women who cross the Mekong in search of a more exciting and financially rewarding life in Thailand.
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Title: Using Cellular Phones in Uganda for Rural Income Generation and More
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: Under the Village Phone Uganda (VPU) Project, Grameen Foundation USA has teamed up with MTN Uganda to extend cell phone coverage throughout rural Uganda. dot-ORG is working with Grameen on strategic planning, training and monitoring and evaluation of the program.
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Title: Women in Technology Cisco Scholarship Program Proving Popular
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: With several weeks remaining until the deadline, more than 2000 women from Asia and North Africa have initiated or submitted applications for the Women in Technology (WIT) Scholarship Program. These women are competing for an estimated 450 spaces in the Cisco Networking Academy.
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Title: dot-GOV Provides Low-Income Women with Technology Skills
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: ot-GOV recently awarded a subcontract to the Institute for International Education (IIE) to implement a collaborative project with CISCO Networking Academies that provides information technology training to low-income Asian and African women. Over 430 scholarships will be provided to women in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia and Sri Lanka. The women will be trained at CISCO's Networking Academies located in each country. For every $1 USAID invests in the networking academies, CISCO invests $8.
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Title: Multiple Learning Channels to Attain Education For All in India
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: USAID/India, the Education Development Center and resource partners have developed a three year project to improve the reach and quality of primary school education in Chhattisgharh, Karnataka and eventually Jharkhand State. The Technology Tools for Teaching and Training (T4) in India project will provide teachers with in-service training to improve content and methods, and multichannel instruction in English, Math and Science using media ranging from interactive radio to a mobile video unit.
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Title: Applying the Bangladesh Village Phone Program to Uganda in support of Women Entrepreneurs
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: The Academy for Educational Development/dot-ORG, Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) Uganda, a network of microfinance institutions, and the Grameen Technology Center along with its other investors, are partnering to launch Village Phone Uganda (VPU).
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Title: Strategies to Cross the Gender Digital Divide
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: DOT: DOT-COM
Summary: Information and communication technology (ICT) offers potent tools to overcome obstacles women and girls typically face, and opens new opportunities in education, political participation, health care, and income generation. For example, ICT bridges communication barriers by allowing women to access many of these opportunities without having to leave their homes, villages, or communities. To realize this potential, ICT activities must recognize and address gender differences that affect ICT access, usage, and benefits. Recognition of these barriers starts at the policy level and continues through to final evaluation. Without such explicit consideration of gender equity, ICT activities may inadvertently exacerbate rather than bridge the gender digital divide.
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Title: Strengthening Moroccan Women's Participation in Politics
Issue: Fall 2002, Issue 1
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: In July 2002, USAID/Morocco and dot-ORG began a three-month information and communications technology (ICT) training project, aimed at enhancing the political participation of Moroccan women. Forty six women political candidates and NGO representatives participated in two three-day training events where they learned how to use ICTs to enhance political campaigns, strengthen advocacy skills, carry out Internet research for informed decision-making, and better serve their communities.
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