Broadcasting Women

The Advancement through Interactive Radio (AIR)
project focuses on a new approach for increasing the
status and empowerment of women in developing
communities, with wider application to the field of
Information and Communication Technologies for
Development. AIR enables women, who are the primary
economic driving force in community development, to talk back to the community radio station, in order
to better facilitate participation as well as demand
and produce information that contributes to their
advancement.

Women are frequently excluded from the access to, and
benefits of, Information and Communication
Technologies for Development (ICTD), which negatively
impacts both women s and community development.
Community radio, enhanced to provide the means for
listeners to communicate with broadcasters,
represents a potential way to address this exclusion.
This research makes the case for further ICTD
interventions that are focused on women and community
radio, while addressing key research questions about
gender, voice and empowerment.

Autorentext

Sarah Revi Sterling, Ph. D. is the Director of ICTD GraduateStudies at the ATLAS Institute of the University of Colorado. Herresearch focuses on the role of Information and CommunicationTechnologies in developing regions, especially as they relate togender and community empowerment.

Klappentext

The Advancement through Interactive Radio (AIR)project focuses on a new approach for increasing thestatus and empowerment of women in developingcommunities, with wider application to the field ofInformation and Communication Technologies forDevelopment. AIR enables women, who are the primaryeconomic driving force in community development, to"talk back" to the community radio station, in orderto better facilitate participation as well as demandand produce information that contributes to theiradvancement.Women are frequently excluded from the access to, andbenefits of, Information and CommunicationTechnologies for Development (ICTD), which negativelyimpacts both women's and community development.Community radio, enhanced to provide the means forlisteners to communicate with broadcasters,represents a potential way to address this exclusion.This research makes the case for further ICTDinterventions that are focused on women and communityradio, while addressing key research questions aboutgender, voice and empowerment.