Women in Action articles from August 2008

Women in Action archives from August 2008

Editorial.(Editorial)
August 1, 2008... In the context of interrogating the ICT-centric development framework, Isis International conducted a 3-year 5-country study on how intermediary groups use communication tools for grassroots women's empowerment. Together with Aalochana in...

PC4D or People's Communications Development: how intermediary groups use communication tools for grassroots women's empowerment.(Isis International)(Report)
August 1, 2008... People's Communications for Development (PC4D) was envisioned and implemented in the context of interrogating the information and communication technology (ICT)-centric development frameworks. Led by Isis International, the research was...

Peoples' Communications for Development PC4D: constructing diverse paths to development.(Isis International)(Aalochana)
August 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Isis International together with Aalochana of India, CMDI of Thailand, femLINKPACIFIC of Fiji, and HELP of Papua New Guinea embarked on a...

Notions of empowerment amoung grassroots women in India, the Philippines, Thailand, and Fiji.(Report)
August 1, 2008... Across the countries of India, Thailand, the Philippines, and Fiji, grassroots women share more commonalities than differences in terms of how they view emit. While NGO language and economic, social, and cultural circumstances categorise these...

Women performing empowerment in India.(talking points)
August 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The last few years have seen the emergence of India as a rising geo-political player from the South, along with China and Brazil. It has also become an information technology hub, that its own National Association of...

PC4D: a pacific perspective.(Report)
August 1, 2008... For femLINKPACIFIC, participating in the research project was an opportunity to delve into the realities of why "we do the work we do." Not only was the research project a critical way to identify the most appropriate means of information and...

When nothing mainstream works: Thai women manage despite the media.(Case study)
August 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thailand is among the Southeast Asian countries whose media landscape is fraught with so much struggles. In the last few years alone, Thailand became a perfect case of an alarming media ownership, where news of...

Communication tools in interacting with grassroots women in Asia Pacific countries.(community & independent media)
August 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] New information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been introduced as central to empowerment and development. But the research conducted by Isis International challenged this new ICT-centric development...

If I had a microphone ...(community & independent media)
August 1, 2008... "In the past I was frightened when I had to speak in front of a crowd. Now I speak with confidence and without fear, thanks to my involvement with Khoun Community Radio for Development. I am quite well-known now in Khoun District and people...

PC4D Philippine launch: when women celebrated communications.(community & independent media)(Isis International)
August 1, 2008... On its celebration of International Women's Month, Bahay ni Isis International Women's House was a full house. In the afternoon of 10 March 2888, over 100 guests flocked to Isis for the launch of People's Communications for Development (PC4D),...

India launch: 25 April 2008, Pune, India.(photo essay)(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Aalochana Executive Director Simrita Gopal with Isis Coordinatorforthe Governance, Citizenship and Communications Programme Marion Cabrera. Articles on the PC4D Indian launch which saw print in the media, the Digital Edition and MH. ...

Thai launch: 31 july 2008, Bangkok, Thailand.(photo essay)(Isis International)(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Isis board member and IPS News Asia-Pacific regional director Johanna Son shared the history and work of Isis International. Civil Media Development Institute Executive Director Uajit Vitrojtrairatt with guest speakers Post Today editor...

Pacific launch: 11 march 2008, Suva, Fiji.(photo essay)(Photograph)
August 1, 2008... Isis Resource Development Officer Lalen de Vela and the University Librarian of the University of South Pacific Sin Joan Yee pulled out the books and other PC4D materials. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

The primacy, of the social sphere.(isis reviews)(Media Technology and Society--A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The thesis of People's Communication for Development (PC4D) brings to mind the theory of former documentary filmmaker and journalist, now media and cultural studies professor, Brian Winston concerning the history of...

Commentaries: precisely one of the problems with many ICT4D funding programmes is their insistence on seeking development solutions that take technology as their starting point.(isis reviews)(Information and Communication Technologies)
August 1, 2008... Indeed, despite repeated and often predictable failures, it is remarkable that many governmental and multilateral-supported development programmes continue to pump considerable funds into connectivity-related programmes in dispossessed...

Examining the PC4D approach--redeeming ICTs in development: communication is the primary process of any social system or architecture. Its central importance to the project of 'social change' that development and gender equality efforts represent is also obvious.(we've got male)(Information and Communication Technologies)
August 1, 2008... It is therefore not at all surprising that when there are some paradigmatic changes in the technologies for, and thereby the possibilities of, communication, serious debates, and contestations open up among the involved actors. I see the...

Susanna George talks about the thinking behind PC4D.(one on one)(Isis International )(Interview)
August 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Susanna George, former executive director of Isis International takes a retrospective look at the processes that motivated the conceptualisation of PC4D. She likewise reflects on the research's conclusion, which...

FOSS: fostering knowledge, development and communities.(community & independent media)(Free Open Source Software)
August 1, 2008... People's Communications for Development (PC4D) may not have found new information and communications technologies (ICTs) empowering for grassroots women, owing to the practical constraints of equipment cost, intermittent electricity, and...