Papers by Zahra Abba Omar
European Delegation to South Africa, 2022
This gender analysis of the digital transformation in South Africa provides a contextual overview... more This gender analysis of the digital transformation in South Africa provides a contextual overview of the country’s socio-economic landscape, the dualistic characteristics of the South African economy, as both an advanced and a developing economy, and how this plays out in the Information Communication and Technology (ICT) sector. It explores the relevance of promoting gender equality in the digital transformation process, highlighting the common ground for cooperation and partnership between South Africa and the European Union (EU) in this area. It is focused on the following topics:
a) The potential of the digital transformation to promoting the economic empowerment of women and girls, including e-commerce, digital service delivery, decentralised home-based digital economic processes, digital solutions to combine work with family responsibilities, etc.
b) Gender-relevant aspects of the e-governance process in South Africa, which is one of the leading countries in the African continent in terms of e-government development.
c) The gender digital divide that runs along the lines and historical structures of discrimination, oppression, gender inequality and other socio-economic factors.
d) Disparities in access, use and benefits of ICT services and tools, mainly due to the high cost of data and access to ICT-services, which cuts across all the structural inequalities, and how the government is addressing these disparities.
e) Online harms and online gender-based violence (OGBV), and its disproportionate impact on women, girls, and gender and sexual minorities. Recent law reform developments are highlighted, as well as civil society initiatives that mark important steps to enhance a safer, accessible, and inclusive internet in South Africa.
f) The final section summarises the key findings and recommendations to support and strengthen South Africa’s efforts towards an equal and inclusive digital transformation that promotes and encourages the empowerment of women and girls.
Disclaimer: This gender analysis of the green transition in South Africa has been commissioned by the European Delegation to South Africa with the aim to enhance gender mainstreaming in European Union's cooperation with South Africa. The content of the gender analysis is however the full responsibility of the teamleader/author Thera Van Osch and the consulting companies that implemented the study..
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Papers by Zahra Abba Omar
a) The potential of the digital transformation to promoting the economic empowerment of women and girls, including e-commerce, digital service delivery, decentralised home-based digital economic processes, digital solutions to combine work with family responsibilities, etc.
b) Gender-relevant aspects of the e-governance process in South Africa, which is one of the leading countries in the African continent in terms of e-government development.
c) The gender digital divide that runs along the lines and historical structures of discrimination, oppression, gender inequality and other socio-economic factors.
d) Disparities in access, use and benefits of ICT services and tools, mainly due to the high cost of data and access to ICT-services, which cuts across all the structural inequalities, and how the government is addressing these disparities.
e) Online harms and online gender-based violence (OGBV), and its disproportionate impact on women, girls, and gender and sexual minorities. Recent law reform developments are highlighted, as well as civil society initiatives that mark important steps to enhance a safer, accessible, and inclusive internet in South Africa.
f) The final section summarises the key findings and recommendations to support and strengthen South Africa’s efforts towards an equal and inclusive digital transformation that promotes and encourages the empowerment of women and girls.
Disclaimer: This gender analysis of the green transition in South Africa has been commissioned by the European Delegation to South Africa with the aim to enhance gender mainstreaming in European Union's cooperation with South Africa. The content of the gender analysis is however the full responsibility of the teamleader/author Thera Van Osch and the consulting companies that implemented the study..
a) The potential of the digital transformation to promoting the economic empowerment of women and girls, including e-commerce, digital service delivery, decentralised home-based digital economic processes, digital solutions to combine work with family responsibilities, etc.
b) Gender-relevant aspects of the e-governance process in South Africa, which is one of the leading countries in the African continent in terms of e-government development.
c) The gender digital divide that runs along the lines and historical structures of discrimination, oppression, gender inequality and other socio-economic factors.
d) Disparities in access, use and benefits of ICT services and tools, mainly due to the high cost of data and access to ICT-services, which cuts across all the structural inequalities, and how the government is addressing these disparities.
e) Online harms and online gender-based violence (OGBV), and its disproportionate impact on women, girls, and gender and sexual minorities. Recent law reform developments are highlighted, as well as civil society initiatives that mark important steps to enhance a safer, accessible, and inclusive internet in South Africa.
f) The final section summarises the key findings and recommendations to support and strengthen South Africa’s efforts towards an equal and inclusive digital transformation that promotes and encourages the empowerment of women and girls.
Disclaimer: This gender analysis of the green transition in South Africa has been commissioned by the European Delegation to South Africa with the aim to enhance gender mainstreaming in European Union's cooperation with South Africa. The content of the gender analysis is however the full responsibility of the teamleader/author Thera Van Osch and the consulting companies that implemented the study..