Women represent just over half of Zimbabwe’s population and the sustainability of our country’s development efforts hinges on women’s equal participation in the social, political and economic fabric of the nation.
After realising that women’s economic empowerment is key to achieving long term economic development and reducing poverty, the government of Zimbabwe recently launched the Broad Based Women’s Economic Empowerment Framework (BBWEE).
The framework has a number of interventions and strategic goals to enable women to participate in society, politics and economics but chief among all these aims is to improve access to technology for women.
The importance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in stimulating socio-economic development is widely recognised.
Magaret Zinguze, director of E-Knowledge for Women in Southern Africa (EKOWISA), says: “ICTs can create new types of economic activities, employment opportunities and improvements in service delivery of healthcare among other services.”
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