ICT and the Gender Question: Prospects and Challenges for the Knowledge Economy in the 21st Century
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Without any doubt, Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) is acknowledged to have
greater meaning and impact among different segments of
the societies in the world today. Its capacity to make
information more readily available to users in a more
efficient and effective manner has accounted for the wider
popularity of ICT against the traditional tools of mobilizing
information. The gender question is an on-going debate for
many scholars, there's a wide gap between men and
women's access and utilization of ICT. This position paper
examines the role of ICT and gender in advancing the
knowledge economy in Nigeria. It seeks to determine the
level and rate of adoption of ICT's across gender with a
view to ascertaining areas of gaps. The paper identifies the
prospects of ICT's readily available for gender to harness,
the obvious challenges and the way forward for the
knowledge economy in the 21st century. The study adopts
secondary sources of data and relevant theoretical positions
to situate the paper. It concludes that Nigeria can achieve
more in ICT, gender development and the knowledge
economy.
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