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9) Identifying women with an interest in IUs, and bringing these tools
nearer to the women.
10) The need to economically empower women as most rural women are
breadwinners.
11) Creating advanced awareness of the project and its intentions through
available media resources.
12) The need for civil society organizations to become lobbying platforms
for social change.
13) The need to expose and connect women through the use of IUs to
what other women are doing worldwide.
14) Linking rural women to micro finance institutions as a motivating
factor.
The above mentioned factors have many similarities with views raised by
Harrls (2004) in chapter 4 on info mobilisation.
In his paper on the Missing Link - Information, Kenney (1995) contends that
the socio-economic independence of developing nations must be a long-term
goal. However, the author goes on to caution that this goal cannot be realized
if the population suffers from inadequate levels of health and education, if the
environment is unhealthy, if the political system prevents the populace from
exercising their rights, and if the creation of wealth is insufficient. Concurring
with this argument is the fact that health and education in poor nations are
related and lacking due to the lack of relevant information. According to
Kenn"y (1995), the compensation and electronic delivery of information and
knowledge that would enable the treatment and diagnosis of isolated patients,
and the education and training of development workers, would go a long way
in uplifting the socio-economic standards of the rural poor. Correspondingly,
the need to integrate women in all aspects of national development programs
is paramount if Africans are to ensure rural development (Adedeji, Rasheed,
Morrison, 1990: 162). This would include programs such as food production,
firewood collection, water fetching, employment opportunities, education and
training, housing, health, nutrition, agriculture and political empowerment,
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