{"id":268,"date":"2022-10-18T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpmu.mau.se\/nmict22group4\/?p=268"},"modified":"2022-10-19T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:18:09","slug":"mobile-connected-women-empowered-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmu.mau.se\/nmict22group4\/2022\/10\/18\/mobile-connected-women-empowered-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile connected women = empowered women?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Technology is fostering individuality, leveraging democratic participation, and it has expanded women\u2019s voices around the world, supporting global change movements and activism campaigns^{1<\/sup><\/a>. A paradigmatic illustration of this is the #BringBackOurGirls social networks\u2019 movement around Boko Haram\u2019s kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria back in 2014}^{2<\/sup><\/a> (read more about it}here<\/a> or here<\/a>) or, more recently, the movement of retaliation about the repression of women in Iran (see Ivona\u2019s article<\/a> on the subject).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Mobile phones in particular have gained undisputed prominence for their potential to reduce inequalities and enable transformative change. Increasing popularity, widespread connectivity, and the portability of a device that meets people\u2019s needs where they are, whatever their social, cultural and economic conditions ^{3<\/sup><\/a>, make mobile technology a big promise in addressing development challenges, perfectly summed up by Melinda Gates in the video below.<\/p>\r\n}

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