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CALGARY (LC for APCNews) – While
in Africa and Latin America telecentres are trying to cater to the
needs of both sexes by making them more accommodating to women,
telecentres in the Philippines are trying to make them more inviting to
men. A study which looked at one rural and one fishing community using GEM
– the APC’s Gender
Evaluation Methodology – has helped
telecentre managers learn why men are staying away. APC talks to Angelo Juan Ramos of
the Philippine telecentre network that carried out the study to find
out how GEM
uncovered surprising results that will help telecentres appeal to
everyone.
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CALGARY
(LC for APCNews) – “If a boy wants to attend a computer course
community members encourage him but if a girl wants to go elders ask
her why she wants to complicate her life,” says Dhaka-based Mahmud
Hassan. In a country where one in every two males accesses information
online yet only three in a hundred Bangladeshi women do, access for
schoolgirls is not just about the availability of computers and
classes. For girls, it requires the support of the entire community and
flexible school schedules as revealed by a study using APC’s Gender
Evaluation Methodology (GEM).
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JOHANNESBURG
(LC for APCNews) – In March GenARDIS
grant winners met for the last time after more than a year of
innovative research and work to improve rural women’s lives in
countries like Ethiopia, the Dominican Republic and Zambia. With
projects as diverse as community radio drama groups, pest control
through information access and using technology to promote women’s
inheritance and land rights, projects were as diverse as the countries
they came from. But as this third round of small grants winds down,
participants are determined to scale up their work. More
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Politicians aren’t always aware that sound
research that could help them make better policy decisions is out there
waiting to be used. On the other hand, social
networking websites are experiencing an
explosive growth worldwide and Latin America is no exception. This new
initiative from APC and
Latin American telecomms research network DIRSI
will bring together researchers and activists to see if it is possible
to influence policy debate using blogs, wikis, Facebook, Twitter and
more in Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay. More
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