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Development and Promotion of Handbook on ‘Technology for Women’

Fatema Begum Labony, Bangladesh

Fatema Begum Labony

In March 2009, D.NET organized a national workshop on achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and the focus was mainly on the development and promotion of a handbook ‘’Technology for Women’’- whose aim is to encourage women to meaningfully participate in technology development through appropriate processes.

The book is designed to target grass root organizations that will in turn encourage and train rural women on how to use relevant knowledge acquired through the use of digital technologies. The content included in the handbook isn’t something new; it was previously invented but wasn’t fully utilized for its appropriate roles. Therefore, the handbook will be a broad-spectrum effort whose intent will be to involve ‘women and technology in the mainstream for development in ICT’ synonymously.

Women have a unique role in human civilization because its success is indebted to their maternal role not ignoring their economic role both in their homes, business/communities and work stations. Women too therefore are perceived as regulators for achieving social development. The instruction book will be an accomplisher in the roles that they play in their communities for progress.

Women are also encouraged to be innovators of technologies; this will help to erase gender inequalities that exist in the digital world as it’s mostly men presumed to do this. The handbook was published with help from the Gender Fund of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). It gives emphasis on health, education and empowerment of women in all aspects.

The writer is a Research Associate Development Research Network.

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