Awino began to make many new friends online, and some began asking to meet her. One of them, Chris, even promised her a trip to the beach during the school holiday. He seemed like a very nice person. Awino excitedly shared the news with one of the youth club leaders, Pauline. Awino was surprised at […]
Category Archives: Toolkit 5 – Better Connected? Digital Skills and Young Women
As youth workers working with young women and girls in Africa, we see how social media affects their outlook. Girls like Awino see their horizons opened up. They are exposed to new ideas, cultures and values that they have never discussed with their parents or teachers, and which we, as adults, may not be aware […]
As African women working with young women and girls, we realised that there was a big contrast in how we, often from the generation before universal connectedness, thought about and used the internet, compared to the young women we seek to empower. This isn’t just a gap of understanding: it can be a gap in […]
We cannot always build a future for the youth but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin. D. Roosevelt In the space of a few weeks, Awino has changed from a somewhat ‘simple village girl’ to a popular, connected city girl, thanks to her new smartphone. The speed of this transformation is a […]
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. Christian Lange It is interesting to consider how the young African women and girls we work with are introduced to digital technology. A lot will depend on the context of their first contact with a mobile phone or the internet. Was it in the context of […]
If you can find your footing between two cultures, you can have the best of both worlds. Randy Pausch Young African women and girls are torn between two seemingly incompatible realities as we enter the fifth industrial – digital – revolution. On the one hand, our young women live in a world rich in culture […]
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