Introduction / Ineke Buskens, 1
I. AGENTIC ICT USE: THE ASPIRATION FOR EMANCIPATION VERSUS THE POWER OF GENDER TRADITIONS
1. Healthy women, healthy society: ICT and the need for women's empowerment in Yemen / Ahlam Hibatulla Ali, Huda Ba Saleem, Nada Al-Syed Hassan Ahmed, Nagat Ali Muqbil and Abeer Shaef Abdo Saeed, 21
2. Computer proficiency and women's empowerment: gendered experiences of ICT at the University of Khartoum / Amel Mustafa Mubarak, 34
3. Towards non-gendered ICT education: the hidden curriculum at the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe / Buhle Mbambo-Thata and Sibonile Moyo, 45
4. Equal opportunities on an unequal playing field: the potential for social change in the ICT workplace / Salome Omamo and Edna R. Aluoch, 56
5. Can new practice change old habits? ICT and female politicians' decision-making in Senegal / Ibou Sané, 69
6. Personal expansion versus traditional gender stereotypes: Tunisian university women and ICT / Oum Kalthoum Ben Hassine, 81
7. Hiba's quest for freedom: ICT and gender-based violence in Yemen / Rokhsana Ismail and Radia Shamsher Wajed Ali, 96
II. DEVELOPING CRITICAL VOICE IN AND THROUGH SAFE ICT-CREATED SPACE
8. ICT in a time of sectarian violence: reflections from Kafanchan, northern Nigeria / Kazanka Comfort and John Dada, 111
9. Disconnecting from and in the public sphere, connecting online: Young Egyptian women expand their self-knowing beyond cultural and body-image dictates / Mervat Foda and Anne Webb, 122
10. Teenage girls' sexting in Cape Town, South Africa: a child-centred and feminist approach / Jocelyn Muller, 134
11. Of browsing and becoming: young Yemeni women enhance their self-awareness and leadership capacities / Zahra Al-Saqqaf, 148
12. ICT in the search for gender freedoms: Jordanian university students think, talk and change / Arwa Oweis, 159
13. Scheherazades of today: young Palestinian women use technology to speak up and effect change / Vera Baboun, 169
14. Jordanian bloggers: a journey of speaking back to the politics of silence, shame and fear / Rula Quawas, 181
III. ICT-ENHANCED RELATING AND BECOMING: PERSONAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
15. Sex, respect and freedom from shame: Zambian women create space for social change through social networking / Kiss Brian Abraham, 195
16. Ancient culture and new technology: ICT and a future free from FGM/C for girls in Sudan / Einas Mahdi Ahmed Mahdi and Ineke Buskens, 208
17. Finding new meaning, creating new connections: ICT empowers mothers of children with special needs in Egypt / Nagwa Abdel Meguid, 227
18. Serving self and society: female radio presenters in Uganda effect social change / Susan Bakesha, 238
19. Challenging the silence, secrecy and shame: transforming ICT's role in increasing pre-marital sex in Sudan / Ikhlas Ahmed Nour Ibrahim, 249
20. Reviving the power of community: how Radio Rurale Femme de Mbalmayo in Cameroon became a catalyst for equality and democracy / Gisele Mankamte Yitamben, 262
21. Transforming relationships and co-creating new realities: landownership, gender and ICT in Egypt / Saneya El-Neshawy, 275
IV. METHODOLOGY
22. Research methodology for personal and social transformation: purpose-aligned action research, intentional agency and dialogue / Ineke Buskens, 291