In many developing countries, women are the initiators of new techniques and practices at household and community level. The big challenge lies in the fact that in most cases, women often relegate themsleves to lower job ranks and positions in decision making; this makes them recepients and implementors of policies that affect them and their households.
In this age, ICTs and Media technologies it hjas become almost impossible to move at a global pace without these crucial technologies.
This brings the importance of training women in ICTs to arouse their important decision making roles in the society. In many developing countries, majority of the population lives in the rural areas, this is where most women are working as their spouses leave the villages for greener economic pastures in the urban areas.
Rural ICT training should aim at focusing on an integrated model where both men and women according to their unique predispositions in each community.