Reaching the Unreached: ICTs and Adult Education for the Empowerment of Rural Women [Paperback]

Though the contribution of rural women to development is tremendous, support for them has been overlooked for far too long. The book explores the situation of rural women and the various measures that have been taken to support them. Based on case studies from Ghana, the book looks at two critical tools - Adult Education and Information, and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for enhancement of rural women. It is anticipated that if the full potential of Adult Education is harnessed and the ICTs as an educational media is fully utilized, rural women will not continue to be educationally and digitally divided from their urban counterparts.O. Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong Kwapongholds a Ph.D. from the University of Ghana and she has studied as a special doctoral candidate at Harvard University. She is currently a lecturer at the Institute of Adult Education at the University of Ghana. In her work for the empowerment of women, Dr. Kwapong has worked for both governmental and non-governmental organizations. Her studies have focused in areas of gender and development, information and communication technologies, and open and distance learning.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Situation of Rural Women
Chapter 3 Efforts at Improving the Situation of Rural Women
Chapter 4 Adult Education for Development-International Perspectives
Chapter 5 Women's Empowerment
Chapter 6 Policy Approaches and Implementation Strategies for Women's Empowerment
Chapter 7 Empowerment among Women of Mo Communities of Ghana
Chapter 8 Adult Education for Empowerment of Women of Mo
Chapter 9 Studies and Cases of ICT's and Adult Education of Women's Empowerment
Chapter 10 A Model for Using ICT for Empowerment of Rural Women through Adult Education
Chapter 11 ICT's and Adult Education for Rural Women: Assessing Willingness to Pay for Information Delivery
Chapter 12 Assessing Willingness to Pay for Information Delivery: Discussion of Regression Results
Chapter 13 PoliclSW