Remote Connections to Empowerment

Details

Titel

Remote Connections to Empowerment

Untertitel

Navigating the Gendered Digital Divide in Gondar, Ethiopia

Hochschule

University of Cambridge

Veranstaltung

BA Geography - Gender and Development

Note

1st Class with Distinction(93%)

Autor

Alice Apsey (Autor:in)

Jahr

2014

Seiten

56

Katalognummer

V281113

ISBN (eBook)

9783656746010

ISBN (Buch)

9783656746003

Dateigröße

13397 KB

Sprache

Englisch

Anmerkungen

This dissertation explores the gender dimension to ICT4D within Northern Ethiopia. It specifically focuses on the multi-faceted barriers to ICT access, and the resulting effect this has upon the social landscape. The dissertation was submitted for a BA in Geography at the University of Cambridge, and was marked at 93%. The dissertation has since won the nationally prestigious Gladstone Memorial Prize, the William Vaughan Lewis Prize, the Jessie Forbes Prize, the Eleanor Sidgwick Memorial Prize, and was nominated for the RGS Gender and Feminist Geography Research Group Dissertation Prize

Schlagworte

ICT, gender, geography, human geography, gender geography, feminist geography, ICT4D, development, development geography, ICT access, barriers to ICT, digital divide, women, Africa, Ethiopia, Gondar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Alice Apsey, 1st Class, Gladstone Memorial Prize, Jessie Forbes Prize, William Vaughan Lewis Prize, Eleanor Sidgwick Memorial Prize, International Development, African Women and ICTs, Buskens and Webb, Hafkin and Taggart, empowerment, disempowerment, ICT education, Amhara, inequality