ABSTRACT
This chapter examines organically determined definitions of the issues that emanate from women scholars and activists in Tanzania. Women's information and communications technology (ICT) ownership and access, literacy, educational attainment, access to water, sanitation, health, residence, age, and marital status. While the Tanzania Demographic and Health Surveys data sets do not have information on the use of phones for medical reminders, it does have data on various barriers to health care. The chapter explores factors related to whether or not women experience cost or distance barriers to obtaining their own health. It shows that women's access to ICT is dependent upon living in more highly resourced regions of Tanzania. Logistic regression analysis shows that women from Zanzibar are 2.2 times as likely to own a cell phone. Women living in Kilimanjaro are 2.9 times as likely to own a cell phone, and those living in Dar es Salaam are 2.6 times as likely to own a cell phone.
