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Open Learning Communities for Gender Equity with the Support of ICTs
 
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Project Phases and Activities

Focus on Mozambique
How to Get Started
Presentation of the Manhiça Community
Implementation
Focus on South Africa
How to Get Started
Presentation of Alexandra Township
Implementation

Lessons Learnt: A Step-to-Step Guide

Review of CD-ROM Applications for Learning and Development
ALMA - African Language Material Archives
Digital Anthologies for Development
Electronic Library Series
Enlace Quiche Project
Rural Hygiene in Africa: Nakaseke Virtual Reality
Rural Women in Africa: Ideas for Earning Money

Study on ICT Uses for Lifelong Learning

Gender Equity

Interactive Glossary

13 ICT Projects
Photos
The Manhiça TelecentreYoung Girls at The Alexsan Kopano Educational Trust
Documents
Concept Note
Developing Open Learning Communities for Gender Equity with the Support of ICTs

Websites
Shikshantar (Go)
Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Future (Go)

 
About the Project

In this project local communities in Mozambique and South Africa address issues of malaria, youth unemployment and HIV/SIDA. They (re-)discover local and global knowledge, experiences and wisdom in these areas. They use information and communication technology to develop their own contents and learning tools, which support their individual and collective learning processes. They use local (tele-)centers and transform them into places of meaningful learning and community-building. At all stages they take into account the relations, needs and perspectives of both men and women, girls and boys in an effort to promote equity between them.

KEY QUESTIONS

  • Learner and social-needs driven and not technology driven uses of information and communication technology (ICTs) - How can the use of information and communication technology (ICTs) support meaningful learning for community-building and gender-equity?

  • Active participation rather than passive consumerism in the emerging information societies- How can local communities, especially women and adolescent girls, critically use and actively shape ICT based content to support their learning processes?

  • Beyond service provision to shaping a new landscape of learning opportunities - How can conventional tele- or other community centers become spaces of community learning, which create synergies between local and global knowledge systems?



    OBJECTIVES

  • Promote community-building and learning for gender equity through critical ICT use and content development in critical areas of concern.

  • Show and explore the interrelations between the involvement of user groups in ICT based content development and their individual and community learning processes.

  • Build and share knowledge on ICT uses for meaningful learning and community-building through action research at local and global levels.



    STRATEGIES

  • Assessing individual and collective learning needs and the role of ICT uses in selected communities, both from a gender aware perspective.

  • Facilitating participatory ICT based content development for individual and community learning and positive change.

  • Documenting and sharing experiences and insights.



    ACTIVITIES

  • Local ICT based content development in Mozambique and South Africa

  • Review of application packages for community learning and development

  • Study on ICT uses in basic education for lifelong learning and development

  • Research on gender dimensions in ICT supported learning


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