Empowering Women

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• Empowering Women

Through ICT December 2007
eHomemakers Research Projects
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Background
The Invisible Homeworking- Informal Sector
in Malaysia
Working_at_home-- a sensible solution for poor,
urban immobile women
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Research Projects 1/2

• Barriers to Entrepreneurship and ICT
• Pan Asia Networking Small Grant, 2002
• Obstacles faced by home-bound disadvantaged women
  to learn ICT skills and enter into
  entrepreneurship
• 5As Process of Change
• Financial, social, and psychological obstacles
• Cost of Work Survey
• The true financial cost of working full time
  outside of home, 2002
• Factoring out the cost of commuting and childcare
  for urban poor women

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Research Projects 2/2

• Gender Dynamics and its impact on Teleworker
  performance in Malaysia
• Efficiency and Productivity gains from the use of
  ICT, 2003
• Research on Homeworkers and ICT in Southeast Asia
• IDRC Research grant, 2004
• Political, economic and social contexts urban
  poor women home-workers face
• Gender Governance Framework to understand the
  relation between gender and ICT

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Salaam Wanita Project
Process Innovation through ICT
Empowerment
Salaam Wanita Women
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