Abstract

At present, most ‘ICTs in health ’interventions, especially in the area of m-health, are being led by a variety of actors under a host of public-private and public sector-civil society partnerships, resulting in co-ordination, standardization and interoperability challenges for the scaling up of such pilots. Women constitute almost half of the population of the world. Education for women is the best way to improve the health, nutrition and economic status of a household that constitute a micro unit of a nation economy. There can be no Internet exceptionalism to the right to free speech, the right to information and the right to assembly and association. Legal interventions that aim at addressing women's rights online must begin from the premise that the Internet is instrumental in the enjoyment of freedoms, rather than locate themselves in a framework of protectionalism. Women have traditionally been excluded from the external information sphere, both deliberately and because of factors working to their disadvantage such as lack of freedom of movement or low levels of education. IT opens up a direct window for women to the outside world. Information flows to them without any distortion and censoring.

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