http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/49686 Mon, 20 May 2013 04:06:31 GMT 2013-05-20T04:06:31Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45568 Title: Implicancias del uso de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación en municipios rurales : un estudio de caso en Ayacucho, Perú Authors: Kanashiro, Laura León Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45568 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45564 Title: Public access to ICT and employment : case of the impact of public access to ICT skills on job prospects in Rwanda Authors: Damascène, M. Jean; Theodomir, M. Abstract: The modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is widely seen by countries as a major drive for their socio-economic development. This is demonstrated by huge investments put in ICT projects. Despite such investments, less is done to evaluate the impact of the access to ICT in specific sectors such as employment. This paper presents a study which intends to evaluate the impact of ICT skills acquired from public access ICT venues on job prospects in Rwanda. A mixed method approach is adopted to carry out the investigation. The study is in progress such that the paper does not present any findings, but the study is expected to contribute to the improvement of our understanding of the impact of public access to ICT and to have a potential public policy impact. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45564 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45563 Title: Internet centers/usage by Burmese ethnic migrants in Mae Sod : traversing the borders of Internet divide and recasting ethnic identities Authors: Dacanay, Nikos Abstract: This paper, taken from an on-going research on the use of Internet centers by marginalized women in the Thai- Burma border, reflects upon the various means of appropriation of the technology. The Internet has ostensibly liberating effects on these women, but this paper proposes that there is more to the feeling of being free in the virtual world. There is currently a “project” of affirming, claiming, and molding traditional ethnic identities through the use of Internet. The paper imagines this as revolutionizing the discursive mode of resistance and rebellion by these marginalized women against the military regime in Burma. Using their agentic qualities, the women transform their social scripts as “marginalized” and “displaced” into “empowered” women who are informed, educated, and aware of their human rights. Set in the border town of Mae Sod in Tak province Thailand and against the backdrop of an omnipresent – but mute - population of illegal migrants from Burma, the discursive inferior-superior relationship between Thais and Burmese, and the complex networking of bodies and organizations providing humanitarian and development aid in the border, this paper looks at the symbiotic relationship between the use of the Internet and the re/construction of ethnic identities. The paper argues that the incomplete and ongoing self-making ethnic identity project shapes how Internet is used as much as how Internet is also shaping this identity project (i.e. construction of virtual identities, appropriation of modern identities, repairing ethnic identities, etc.) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45563 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z