Gender Impact and Mobile Phone Solutions in Rural Development: : A Case Study in Rural Iringa, Tanzania
Ngumbuke, Fredrick (2010)
Ngumbuke, Fredrick
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2010
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201005179535
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201005179535
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In rural Tanzania, the acceptance of mobile phone technology is skewed more to male gender than women; women are still the untapped market, which means they are not able to fully receive the possible benefits of mobile phone technologies. The goal of this work was to present the reasons and effects of the disparity between men and women. There is a clear and wide gap between genders in the ownership and use of mobile phones.
The work especially looked at the reasons why women own and use less mobile phones than men do; the reasons for women owning and using phones; the benefits women perceive to gain from using and owning mobile phones; the attitudes towards ownership of mobile phones among women; and the impact of mobile phone ownership and usage in gender power relations.
The demographic data was collected via a structured survey, which was thereafter analyzed using simple descriptive statistics: means, frequencies, percentages and cross tabulations. An analysis of the data gave highlights to the stated problem. The findings show that men are culturally taken as main responsible persons in the family, they have more authority over women, men have more income than women and also men use mobile phones for business or work of any kind more than women.
The findings will be of great use to policy makers and developers and development organizations in which innovative, mobile phone-based systemic solutions could be developed or modified to reach as wide segment of the community as possible in less developed countries. The major focus could be in usability, applicability, feasibility and making the ideas transparent and transferable across different stakeholder groups
The work especially looked at the reasons why women own and use less mobile phones than men do; the reasons for women owning and using phones; the benefits women perceive to gain from using and owning mobile phones; the attitudes towards ownership of mobile phones among women; and the impact of mobile phone ownership and usage in gender power relations.
The demographic data was collected via a structured survey, which was thereafter analyzed using simple descriptive statistics: means, frequencies, percentages and cross tabulations. An analysis of the data gave highlights to the stated problem. The findings show that men are culturally taken as main responsible persons in the family, they have more authority over women, men have more income than women and also men use mobile phones for business or work of any kind more than women.
The findings will be of great use to policy makers and developers and development organizations in which innovative, mobile phone-based systemic solutions could be developed or modified to reach as wide segment of the community as possible in less developed countries. The major focus could be in usability, applicability, feasibility and making the ideas transparent and transferable across different stakeholder groups