LEVERAGING ICTS FOR EMPOWERING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN BANGLADESH: A REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND WAY FORWARD
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have improved the way businesses are run while creating new avenues for empowering entrepreneurs especially women. In the context of developing countries, due to the fact of digital divide as well as digital exclusion women have disproportionate access to ICTs and digital opportunities and they are less equipped to avail the benefits that ICTs are offering. As ICTs have appeared to be empowering means for women in general, this paper attempts to bring forth how ICTs can be leveraged to empower women entrepreneurs by drawing from recent developments in the realm of policies and practices in Bangladesh and elsewhere. In Bangladesh, ICTs have received much wider political appeal and different policies and programs are swelling with broader goal of digitalization. However, women still face problems in accessing and using ICTs. This paper shows that leveraging ICTs for women entrepreneurs could have large implication for women empowerment and economic independence of rural and marginalized women in Bangladesh. Drawing from recent experiences in Bangladesh and other developing countries in Asia and Africa, this paper argues that both targeted and broad-based measures are required to create conditions that adequately take into account issues of women’s access, usage, ownership, needs and relevance of digital contents and platforms in order to leverage ICTs for promoting women entrepreneurship.
Authors and Affiliations
Syed Mohammad Aminur Rahman| Additional District Magistrate, Sylhet
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