Using Information Communication Technologies for Gender and *Development in Africa: A Case Study of UNIFEM and FEMNET

201 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.This dissertation argues that for ICTs to be used as a tool to empower women economically, socially and politically, there should be a bottom-up approach where poor, non-literate and rural women act as their own experts by actively using these new technologies in combination with the old (such as radios and videos) to address their own needs.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD