This paper describes the impact of socio-economic factors on girls and women’s access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education and training in a rural South African environment and recommends strategies for improved access to ICT education and training. The study was undertaken through a case study conducted in the Mootse village in the Elandsdoorn area of Mpumalanga Province,

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become a major enabling technology that is nowadays very much ‘en vogue’. It has also become an important tool to promote a variety of business goals and public policies. The growing importance of ICT in daily life, business activities and governance prompts the need to consider ICT more explicitly in local policies. The expected benefits from ...

This paper outlines the increasingly important role of regions in Knowledge Transfer. Drawing on experiences from two ICT projects involving Digital Ecosystems, it explores why the regions are the best catalyst for knowledge transfer and suggests methodologies for the development of effective ICT strategies for regional economic development.