Jamie Cistoldi Lee
ASA Submission
house and family, but we women can also be professionals, business-women, occupying important
positions in society and the Foundation showed us that,” remarks one of the participants. We should base
our conclusions on the experiences of the participants involved on a per-program basis, since in many
ways this program in particular made a meaningful change in their life. Long-term access to and use of
computers may not be a necessary goal for these programs. Rather, these programs can be successful on
an individual level if they improve rights and empower participants. These programs can also be
successful from a development perspective if they foster the growth of and expansion of information and
communication technologies in key industries in the developing world. So, while these participants gain
control, access, and rights to ICT within the classroom, there remains much progress to assure that at the
same time the students do not loose control in their social, economic, and political lives as computer
technologies infiltrate their communities and homes.
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