Empowering rural women entrepreneurs with ICT skills: An impact study

Hashim, Fuzirah; Amir, Zaini; Razak, Norizan Abdul

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.04.302

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“…Research about ICT and small-scale businesses as an integrated effort to alleviate poverty in Malaysia showed that computers are very useful because they are effective, more comfortable and able to store data and information. Therefore, Malaysian women acknowledge the fact and they agree to use computers in their work (Hashim et al, 2011). To a large extent, this is also the case in Indonesia.…”

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Information and Communication Technology and Creative Economy: A Case From Indramayu

Adeni¹,

Saleh²,

Hubeis³

et al. 2020

j. penelit. komun. dan pembang.

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As Indonesian government endorse of growing creative economy, it also relates to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) which is growing rapidly in Indonesia. The ICT is used by many people in rural area, especially at coastal area. At coastal area most women work for helping the family income. They produce the fish production. Thus it leads to their creativity in producing new product from fish. This creativity should be enforce by utilizing the ICT in particular for enlarging the market. The case from women in Indramayu District specifically in Indramayu sub-district, a coastal area, becomes locus for this research. This paper examines how women at coastal area produce the fish production becoming a creative economy and how they use the internet? The qualitative research is applied in this research. The result show that most women do not really use the internet, only a few of them utilize the internet to market their product by using social media. In conclusion, ICT cannot be applied maximally in Indramayu except the women are obtaining the media literacy.

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confidence: 94%

Information and Communication Technology and Creative Economy: A Case From Indramayu

Adeni¹,

Saleh²,

Hubeis³

et al. 2020

j. penelit. komun. dan pembang.

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“…Research conducted by Fuad et al (2011) revealed that 29 per cent of respondents agreed that the purpose of starting a digital business is to generate self-income and extra money while working at home. The respondents in the study conducted by Hashim et al (2011) also claimed that their business sales had increased up to 40 per cent after using the online platform as the business medium.…”

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“…Many studies have been conducted in many countries particularly those with an emerging economy to examine the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs that are primarily related to SMEs. These countries include Turkey (Merve and Burcu, 2015), Tanzania (Kazimoto, 2014;Isaga, 2019), South Africa (Victoria et al, 2019), Saudi Arabia (Maura et al, 2018), Swaziland (Happyson et al, 2018), South Korea (Asia Pacific Women's Information Network Centre Report, 2018), South East Asia (Asian Development Bank and The Asia Foundation Report, 2018) and Malaysia (Abdul Razak and Amran, 2016;Hashim et al, 2011;Thuaibah et al, 2007;Ariffin et al, 2017;Teoh and Chong, 2014;Xavier et al, 2011;Alam and Jani, 2011;Hashim, 2012). Accordingly, the challenges that are encountered by women entrepreneurs, especially in digital business, are explored in this section.…”

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“…The use of e-commerce has been proven to enhance the confidence of entrepreneurs in managing their business because they do not need to participate in face-to-face dealings with customers, particularly in the rural area (Hashim et al, 2011;Kazimoto, 2014). Nevertheless, in research investigating the developmental challenges associated with women entrepreneurship, Teoh and Chong (2014) found that lack of confidence was one of the critical challenges that women entrepreneurs had to encounter.…”

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Empowering Women-owned Businesses in the Era of Digital Transformation: A Review of the Opportunities and Challenges

Hazudin¹,

Sabri²,

Kader³

et al. 2021

IJARBSS

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This paper aimed to discuss the opportunity and challenges that are faced by women entrepreneurs in the current digital transformation development. A summary of scholarly works alongside the discussion of some important findings based on the centred issue was presented in the current paper. The analysis was focused on explaining the role of the most important digital business solution, namely social media. The major challenges of pursuing digital alternative were also discussed, varying from a traditional gender issue to emerging digital pressures. This paper provides the relevant academic explanation of the underlying requirements for creating successful women entrepreneurs in digital business, while the highlighted pitfalls can help them avoid incidentally occurrence of business failures.

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“…Sejalan dengan uraian di atas, untuk mengetahui sejauh mana efektivitas LISA sebagai media diseminasi informasi pertanian yang berbasis layanan pesan pendek berperan dalam pembangunan pertanian, perlu dilakukan kajian dan analisis secara mendalam dan terarah. (Hashima et al 2011).…”

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Layanan Pesan Pendek untuk Pembangunan Pertanian di Kabupaten Karawang

Wibowo¹,

Lubis²,

Fitri³

2016

Jurnal KMP

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Application of information and communication technology (ICTs)currently has integrated with agricultural development. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones have been used in rural development activities. LISA is a groundbreaking program that aims to provide an integrated agricultural services include agricultural tips services, the interactive dialogue, and iteration financial services based on mobile phone short message service. The main objective of this study to determine the effectiveness of LISA as agricultural information dissemination media based short message service role in agricultural development. The purposes of the study were 1) to analyze the exposure of LISA user; 2) to analyze the relationship between user characteristics and external factors against LISA’ exposure; 3) to analyze the relationship between LISA exposure against the effectiveness of communication; and 4) to analyze the relationship between interaction with other information sources against the effectiveness of communication. The sample selection method used in the study was multiple stage sampling. The sample included 100 LISA user in Karawang District. The data analysis was carried out using the descriptive correlational analysis and SEMpls. The result showed that the land area cultivated respondent significantly affect LISA’ exposure. External factors do not significantly affect the LISA exposure. LISA exposure significantly affect the effectiveness of communication. Interactions with other information sources does not significantly influence the effectiveness of communication.Keywords: short message service, LISA exposure, the effectiveness of communication

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Empowering rural women entrepreneurs with ICT skills: An impact study

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Information and Communication Technology and Creative Economy: A Case From Indramayu

Information and Communication Technology and Creative Economy: A Case From Indramayu

Empowering Women-owned Businesses in the Era of Digital Transformation: A Review of the Opportunities and Challenges

Layanan Pesan Pendek untuk Pembangunan Pertanian di Kabupaten Karawang

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