Empowering Women Through ICT

This book is the first of its kind in putting together the optimistic voices of techno-idealists, critical social science perspectives on technology and a range of empirical material on the impact of ICTs on the lives of women via its diffusion in the urban and rural spaces of work, consumption, e-governance and the new kinds of social identities it has fostered in India. This book collects an authoritative core of research investigating the notion that information communication technologies have the potential to improve the lives of people and contribute to enhancing social conditions in developing countries through such concepts as the knowledge society, open education, and e-governance. This premier book will enable libraries to support research in a variety of disciplines that interact with ICT and its impact on the development of women.