Title :
Information technology for learning and development for women in rural India
Abstract :
Tel-Nek is a not for profit project started in May 2001 in Bidadi, a small town, 35 km from Bangalore. The project is mainly funded by the Basque Autonomous Community through its Cooperative for Development Fund (FOCAD). In India, the implementing partner of the Tel-Nek project is Anchorage, an NGO primarily working in the area of digital divide. Tel-Nek´s main objective is to foster community growth through training semi rural women in New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) in local language adopting the suitable contextual form.
Keywords :
information technology; training; Anchorage; Bangalore; Basque Autonomous Community; Bidadi; Cooperative for Development Fund; FOCAD; Indian women; NICT training; Tel-Nek; communication technology; digital divide; information technology; learning; rural India; semirural women; Agriculture; Animals; Cities and towns; Communications technology; Context; Employment; Ergonomics; Government; Information technology; Natural languages;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2004. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2181-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2004.1357735
