The Advancement through Interactive Radio (AIR)
project focuses on a new approach for increasing the
status and empowerment of women in developing
communities, with wider application to the field of
Information and Communication Technologies for
Development. AIR enables women, who are the primary
economic driving force in community development, to
"talk back" to the community radio station, in order
to better facilitate participation as well as demand
and produce information that contributes to their
advancement.

Women are frequently excluded from the access to, and
benefits of, Information and Communication
Technologies for Development (ICTD), which negatively
impacts both women's and community development.
Community radio, enhanced to provide the means for
listeners to communicate with broadcasters,
represents a potential way to address this exclusion.
This research makes the case for further ICTD
interventions that are focused on women and community
radio, while addressing key research questions about
gender, voice and empowerment.