ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with women academics in Zimbabwean institutions to determine organic definitions of women's status, diffusion of knowledge, and quality governance that are relevant to women there. It presents the case for and explains details of women-centered methodology. The chapter examines cell phone use and its impact on knowledge diffusion among women by outlining features of a conceptual model for analyzing the Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Surveys for 2005–2015 that have been merged with World Bank development and governance indicators. The chapter provides an analytic plan for examining the impact of information and communications technology (ICT) on community-level and national governance factors and values that focus on issues of gender equity identified in the review of indigenous scholars' literature and activist discourse. The research fields that are relevant in this examination of ICT within the field of science and technology in society include computer science, library and information science, and records and archives management.
