31 Julio 2012
Inspiring and empowering women through access to information
IFLA World Library and Information Congress,11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland
Inspiring and empowering women through access to information
- Women empowering through access to information: the strategic roles on NGOs in Nigeria
ADETOUN A. OYELUDE & ALICE A. BAMIGBOLA (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria) - Sources and channels of information access and use in the information and knowledge society: a case study of informal sector women entrepreneurs of Hlabisa Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
VELI JIYANE, and MABEL MINISHI-MAJANJA (University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) and JANNEKE MOSTERT and DENNIS OCHOLLA (University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa) - Women as leaders of culture and change: a paper on BRAC’s Multi-purpose Community Learning Centre (MCLC)
NAZRUL ISLAM and ARCHI BISWAS (Brac Education Programme, Dhaka, Bangladesh) - Providing information to women in Croatia: improvements inspired by feminist groups' initiatives
EDITA BAČIĆ (University of Split, Split, Croatia)
The four speakers will join quest panelist IFLA President-Elect Sinikka Sipilä for a question and answers session on the role of library and information professionals inspiring and empowering women through access to information.