3rd European Symposium on Gender & ICT: Working for
Change
February 1st 2005
Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester, England
You are invited to join the 3rd European Symposium on
Gender and ICT: Working for Change to be held in
Manchester on February 1st 2005. Registration is now
open and is free of charge. Please visit our
conference website (
http://ict.open.ac.uk/gender/ )
for registration form, programme details, accomodation
and travel information.
The morning plenary includes an overview of the JIVE
Gender and ICT research project and our keynote
presentation - Women in IT
Professions: Corporate Structures, Masculine Cultures
by Juliet
Webster.
There will be a choice of parallel sessions and
workshops
throughout the day, including
- Gender and technology at work for IT professionals
- Gender and e-Learning strategies and solutions
- ICT policy and strategic issues
- Gender and ICT in private and public spaces
- Gender and identity : Crossing boundaries, changing
roles
- Women's groups,women's training: policy and
practice
- Citizenship, agency, empowerment: the impact of ICT
policies
- Globalisation and flexible work with ICTs
- The future: young women's attitudes and career
choices
- ICT and equality discourses in Europe
-Ethics and career progression in education
If you have any enquiries please contact:
genderandict@???
We look forward to seeing you in February!
The symposium is a joint initiative of the Open
University,
JIVE Partners, WINWIT (Salford University), Women IT
(Finland),
Get a Life Engineer (Denmark) and is supported by the
Dutch Gender and Technology Association.
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