How to employ ICTs and Innovation to empower Women entrepreneurs

1. Empowering Women
Entrepreneurs through ICT
@rhysrose
Feb 2018
Amcet Innovation Hub
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2. Women Entrepreneurs

3. Why ICTs for WED
● MSE’s are engines of growth and considered a backbone
for economic expansion by many governments
● Building up women’s confidence,skills and socioeconomic
status with social benefits accruing to the community and
future generations

4. Why ICTs for WED
Mobile Phone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants by Region

5. The Diversity of ICTs
Mobile Phones
Text, pictures, Video.
Internet
Websites,
email, ecommerce, blogs, web
forum,social media, Voice over
IP(Skype)
A personal Computer PC
Essential ICT skill, while electricity, literacy,
language and content aspects are important
prerequisites for enterprises
Television Broadcasting
A common place device in homes, business and
institutions particulary as a way of providing
advertisement, entertainment and news. Switch
from analogue to degital broadcasting. TV now
accessible to on the internet as well as on mobile
phones
Radio Broadcasting
Low cost ICT tool. Though the information
flow is one-way, it is inexpensive and
overcomes language barriers. Content can be
targeted to specific interest eg agriculture
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Source: UNCTAD

6. How?
★ Access to Finance
★ Women’s time constraints or time poverty
★ Constraints of women physical mobility
★ Constraints on women to access education,
skills & Training

7. What?

8. Legal & Regulatory Environment

9. Mobile Money transfer ,savings &
loans

10. Business Development Support
https://apkpure.com/vsomo/com.vsomo

11. Electricity
http://www.jazaenergy.com/ http://www.m-kopa.com/http://www.jamiipower.com/

12. Social Services
http://gongalimodel.com/