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This chapter reviewed various literatures to ascertain how information and communication technology (ICT), when put to effective use, can be a tool to empower women in nation-building. The objective is to use ICT as a tool to empower women as nation-builders. Feminism is now more concerned with how ICT will be used rather than what ICT is. Consequently, ICT use has a long history, from radio and television programmes to the use of CDROM and floppy discs in computers, down to the use of the Internet and mobile hand-held devices. ICT has played an important role in formal and non-formal settings and in secular and religious communities. The various ways ICTs can be applied in empowering women and their challenges have been highlighted here.
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Amanze, R. (2023). ICT as a Tool for Women’s Empowerment. In: Sotunsa, M., Yakubu, A.M. (eds) Nigerian Women in Cultural, Political and Public Spaces. Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40582-2_10
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