- Media:
- Print
- TV
- Radio
- ICT’s
- Spoken Word
2. ISSUES/QUESTIONS
- Literacy rates
- Circulation Figures/Readerships
- Access
- Importance of oral traditions
- Local leaders and opinion formers
- Possible local champions - women
- Power of ICT’s
- Language
3. SELECTED INDICATORS FROM SOME SADC COUNTRIES
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TV SETS (per 1000 people) |
PC's (per 1000 people) |
ESP's (per 1000 people) |
Internet Users's (per 1000 people) |
Adult Literacy ( % 15 & above) |
Tertiary students in Science(%) |
| Mauritius |
228 |
73.7 |
0.7 |
46.83 |
83.8 |
17 |
| South Africa |
125 |
54.7 |
3.8 |
41.5 |
84.6 |
18 |
| Naimibia |
32 |
29.5 |
1.2 |
3.54 |
80.8 |
4 |
| Botswana |
27 |
31 |
1.4 |
7.45 |
75.6 |
27 |
4. WHAT CAN WORK?
- Use mix of methods
- Focus on radio and site visits by persons with expert knowledge
- Link with possible local champions
- Get local leaders and opinion leaders on-side
5. EDUCATION
- Energy, Poverty and Gender in Curriculum
- Fragmented/Across the curriculum
- Education-development dilemma
Does education and training lead development or does it
only help in sustaining it?
- Too long timeframe
- Kind of education
- Limit to what E&T can do
6. EMPOWERMENT
- Ownership
- Capital formation
- Capital derives from assets, provided that:
- Assets are transformed into representations
- Legal title clearly established
- Access to network of people
- Accountability
- One system of information
7. EMPOWERMENT II
- Dangers of “appropriate” technology
- Inferior?
- Third World?
- Marginilising?
- Local benefits of global developments:
- Availability of information anywhere, anytime
- Everyone wants to be part of the Third Wave of Development
8. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- What is the situation in other countries with Energy, Poverty and Gender in the Curriculum?
- What can we do about the fragmentation/compartmentalisation?
- Are there other sectors where extralegal social contracts are more important than their legal counterparts?
- How can we work on getting these integrated into the legal system?
- What about property rights in our countries? Do rural people have adequate access to such rights?
- If not, what interventions can we propose to change this?
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