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important activity, particularly in South Africa, it scored dismally in Kenya
(16.0%).
10.2.4 Barriers faced by women when accessing and using leTs.
What problems do women experience when accessing and using
ICTs?
Survey results in chapters 7.7 and 7.8 indicate that problems of access and
exclusion abound in RVP (Kenya) and in rural KZN (South Africa). In South
Africa, 56.5% of the respondents felt that ICT services were unaffordable,
while 41.5% felt that ICTs were too far removed from them. Computer
illiteracy accounted for 21% of the rural respondents in South Africa. In
Kenya, 32.0% of the respondents expressed problems relating to cost, while
another 19% cited distance and 13.5%, time. 16% of the rural respondents
in RVP (Kenya) expressed problems stemming from computer illiteracy.
10.2.5
Africa.
ICT training needs of rural women in Kenya and South
What are rural women's ICT training needs?
How can the training needs of women be addressed, particularly in
rural areas?
It was observed that 42.0% of the respondents in KZN (SA) and 45.5% in
RVP (Kenya) felt that adult education was essential. Interestingly, of all the
enlisted training needs, computer/internet training came first as 66.5% in
KZN (SA) and 81.5% in RVP (Kenya) felt that this training would be
essential. This was followed by 50.5% of the respondents in KZN (SA), and
62.5% in RVP (Kenya). stating that vocational training would be of foremost
importance to them.
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