Women empowerment and communication

This paper explores the empowerment of women in the context of knowledge society is understood as building the ability and skills. Those ability and skills of women to gain their insight of actions and issues in the internal and external environment which influence them, and to build their capacity to get involved and voice their concerns in these process of internal and external environment, and make informed decisions in a effective and better way. It entails building up of capacities of women to overcome social and institutional barriers, and strengthening their participation in the economic and political process for an overall improvement in their qualities of lives.

 The world is in the midst of a knowledge revolution, where the entire society tends to becoming “knowledge society” which complemented by opening up of entirely new spectrum in the areas of communication technology. Recent development in the fields of communication technology is indeed of a revolutionary in nature.

Communication Technologies (CTs) are a diverse set of technological tools and resources to create-re-create, disseminate, store, bring value-addition and manage information.