5th European Symposium on Gender: ICT & Digital Cultures: Participation – Empowerment – Diversity
University of Bremen, Germany
March 5 – 7, 2009
Information Society with its variety of new information and communication media offers many new options to participate in today’s social, cultural, political, and economic activities. However, chances are unequally distributed, e.g. by class, ethnicity, age – and by gender.
The 5th European Gender and ICT Symposium will take a closer look at the complex interdependences between gender and ICT. Analyses of current ICT use and education on a global level and under various local conditions will be presented and new constructive approaches to gender-aware software design will be identified at the conference. Innovative solutions to overcome the barriers, to encourage participation, and to equally empower women and men by means of Information Technology will be discussed.
This conference, the fifth in a row of symposia held in Europe since 2003, provides a meeting point for researchers from various disciplines and research schools, for practitioners and policy makers in the area of gender and ICT.
Topics are:
- Gendering in Design
- Computing Science – a Gendered Discipline?
- Gender & Technology Curricula
- Competences in Technology/Digital Media and Social Participation
- Digital Cultures, Identity and Subject Construction
- Gender, Work and ICT
- Design for Gender & Diversity
- Globalisation and Local Action
We invite you to share your experiences!
Submission of/ abstracts/ by September 1, 2008.
Submission of/ posters/ by January 15, 2009
For more details, see http://gict2009.de
Program chairs: Prof. Dr. Susanne Maass, Prof. Dr. Heidi Schelhowe
Conference organisation: Maike Hecht, Anja Kümmel, Carola Schirmer, Susanne Maass, Heidi Schelhowe
University of Bremen
Computer Science Department
Postbox 330 440
28334 Bremen Germany
Phone (49) 421 – 218 64390
mail: gict#informatik.uni-bremen.de