Conference Session 201
Inspiring and empowering women through access to information
Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group
Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.
16 August 2012 10:45 - 12:45 | Room: Session Room 2 | SI
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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.
Last update: 12 August 2012