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• W2425193124 abstract "Using rural household survey data collected from 1000 female household heads selected from all the ten administrative regions in Ghana, this paper explored the policy implications for using ICTs for empowerment of rural women. A contingent valuation (CV) method was used to quantitatively estimate the influence of selected socio-economic factors on rural women’s willingness to pay for alternative information delivery technologies. Even though the government sets the overall national ICT policy, the results from this study suggest some merit in allocating considerable authority to regional and local authorities in setting priorities and approaches to empowering rural women through the use of ICT. The study results also point to a need to cast rural empowerment policies and programs within the broader poverty reduction policies of the government and also within the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The results again indicate the need to formulate policies and programs to prevent duplication of efforts and critical “Political Will”. I. INTRODUCTION Empowerment of women is emphasized in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Ghana’s own Poverty Reduction Strategy Program (GPRSP) as a measure to address the problem of poverty. The use of modern information and communication technology (ICT) is considered a critical element in the effort to empower rural women. Empowerment entails the ability and freedom to make choices in the social, political, and economic arenas. One of the challenges facing a developing country like Ghana is how effectively information could be made available to rural households to enhance choice-making. ICTs are very expensive, government has budget limitations. One wonders how the government of a developing nation like Ghana could harness the potential of modern technology to meet the information need of most people, especially the marginalized in society. Given the budget restrictions facing developing countries, the possibility of disaggregating implementation of ICT policies that will respond to the unique needs of rural women may have to be explored. This has several policy implications which are drawn from this paper. II. SCOPE OF STUDY This paper throws light on the essence of designing a disaggregated ICT policy to empower rural women. The study uses survey data from all the ten administrative regions in Ghana to determine the factors influencing rural women’s’ choice of information delivery technology. The information delivery technologies considered are private radio, community radio, and extension services. The motivating hypothesis in this study is that the wide differences in the socio-economic status of rural women households’ influences their choice of information delivery technology and also their willingness to pay for a selected technology. This basic hypothesis is addressed using data from a survey instrument administered to 1000 households from the ten administrative regions of the country. Beyond the issue of whether an aggregate rural empowerment ICT policy would be appropriate, the outcome of this exercise has important policy implications for program planning and implementation applications. For example, since Ghana receives considerable funding and technical support from development partners, the results from this study could be used to channel and target donor support to identifiable needs in rural areas so as to minimize waste and duplication of effort. For the government’s own resource allocation, a disaggregated ICT policy could lead to significant policy efficiency gains. III. THE ICT ENVIRONMENT IN GHANA AND THE RURAL SECTOR Ghana has made a response to the ICT challenge. In 2003, the Ghana Integrated ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD) Policy, which summarized the vision of Ghana in the information age was announced. While the policy outlines a broad array of objectives, it is clear that the core of the policy is to use ICT to achieve Ghana’s vision of becoming a middle-income country by the year 2020. Ghana’s ICT policy is supported by a slew of supporting laws, programs, and initiatives such as, the National Initiative Concerning the ICT and Education and Training (NISI), the African Information Society Initiative (AISI), and the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute. Despite the wide recognition of the role of ICT in national development, a successful ICT program planning and implementation to accelerate empowerment of women in Ghana is beset by several institutional, technical, political, economic and social challenges. As an institutional matter, ICT policy planning and implementation is" @default.
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