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Telecentres use in rural communities and women empowerment: case of Western Cape

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dc.creator Alao, Abiodun
dc.creator Lwoga, Tandi Edda
dc.creator Chigona, Wallace
dc.date 2019-05-13T15:49:11Z
dc.date 2019-05-13T15:49:11Z
dc.date 2017-05-22
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T08:35:09Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T08:35:09Z
dc.identifier http://dspace.cbe.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/188
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/79347
dc.description Women are still facing exclusion in the use of telecentres, largely because of cultural perceptions that they are responsible for the home; telecentres are also widely perceived appropriate for men to find employment. This paper presents an analysis of the benefits women derive from using telecentres. This study explores how telecentres empower women in the rural communities by analysing three telecentres in the rural setting of Western Cape, South Africa. A qualitative approach involving semi-structured interviews was used to gather indepth details on individual empowerment of the rural women. The results obtained show that some rural women used the telecentres to enhance economic standards, which resulted in individual empowerment in social, psychological, information and economic dimensions. This study highlights the potential of telecentres in empowering women and proposes that the government and NGOs consider the telecentre as a means of addressing gender digital divide issues
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher College of Business Education
dc.subject Telecentres, women empowerment, gender, rural communities, ICT use, Western Cape.
dc.title Telecentres use in rural communities and women empowerment: case of Western Cape
dc.type Article


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