期刊名称：European Journal of Business and Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2235-767X
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
期号：3
页码：01-15
出版社：European Society of Business and Social Sciences
摘要：Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have improved theway businesses are run while creating new avenues for empoweringentrepreneurs especially women. In the context of developing countries,due to the fact of digital divide as well as digital exclusion women havedisproportionate access to ICTs and digital opportunities and they are lessequipped to avail the benefits that ICTs are offering. As ICTs have appeared tobe empowering means for women in general, this paper attempts to bring forthhow ICTs can be leveraged to empower women entrepreneurs by drawing fromrecent developments in the realm of policies and practices in Bangladesh andelsewhere. In Bangladesh, ICTs have received much wider political appeal anddifferent policies and programs are swelling with broader goal ofdigitalization. However, women still face problems in accessing and using ICTs.This paper shows that leveraging ICTs for women entrepreneurs could havelarge implication for women empowerment and economic independence ofrural and marginalized women in Bangladesh. Drawing from recentexperiences in Bangladesh and other developing countries in Asia and Africa,this paper argues that both targeted and broad-based measures are requiredto create conditions that adequately take into account issues of women’saccess, usage, ownership, needs and relevance of digital contents and platformsin order to leverage ICTs for promoting women entrepreneurship
关键词：ICTs for Development; Women entrepreneurs; Women;empowerment; Bangladesh
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