While it has turn out to be an accepted follow for mining corporations to share roads, electrical energy, and different conventional infrastructure with close by rural communities, sharing new technological infrastructure, comparable to Internet entry and cell phone reception, is a newer growth.

This publication seems to be at how sharing technological infrastructure can assist gender equality and serve the broad betterment of mining communities. It illustrates how mining corporations in South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are sharing technological infrastructure with native communities and the way companions are collaborating in Peru so as to add stakeholder voices to mining-related affect measurements.

This analysis reveals that whereas packages won’t be initially designed solely for ladies, an unintended consequence of constructing the know-how accessible to all is that ladies who’re historically underserved in know-how and technological infrastructure profit from its presence.