IT for Change and Luleå University of Technology organised an international workshop on February 5-6, 2007 in Mysore, India. The workshop took a systems approach that examined the intersecting grids of social and institutional change, gender transformative processes and techno-social models. The workshop aimed to look at ICT-induced change from different vantages, and attempted to synthesise gender perspectives in relation to contextual ICT-led models of social change.
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Session Design
| DAY 1: 5th FEBRUARY 2007
| 8.15 - 9:00
| Registration
| 9:00 - 9:10
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| 9:10 - 9:20
| Opening Remarks - Ewa Gunnarsson, Sweden, Professor & Head, Division of Gender, Technology and Organisation, Department of Human Work Sciences, Luleå University of Technology
| SESSION 1: Technology, Society and Gender in the Information Age
The discussions in this session will critique the new context of the information society, explore how changes in the information age are impacting gender relations and examine emerging opportunities for gender-just change within the information society paradigm.
| 09:20- 10:20
| Speakers:
Chair - Ewa Gunnarsson,Sweden - Professor & Head, Division of Gender, Technology and Organisation, Department of Human Work Sciences, Luleå University of Technology
| 10:20- 10:50
| Discussion
| 10:50-11:10
| Tea and Coffee
| SESSION 2: Situating Gender in Community Informatics
This session will explore whether and how the information and communications (I & C) architecture at the community level perpetuates gender inequalities and how new ICTs offer possibilities for structural shifts that impact existing gender relations. The session will examine how the new paradigms of interactivity, low communication costs, information organising and access, asynchronous communication and other digital tools and applications can be used for developing contextual informatics – and how these changes can be directed to impact gender relations in positive ways. The session will analyse techno-social models and how they address women’s appropriation of and control over technology.
| 11:10-12:10
| Speakers:
Jessica Mayberry, India - Founding Director, Video Volunteers Sejal Dand, India - Director, Area Networking and Development Initiatives
Chair - Michael Gurstein, Canada - Executive Director, Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training
| 12:10- 12:30
| Discussion
| 12.30- 13.30
| Lunch
| 13.30- 14.30
| Speakers:
Chair- Michael Gurstein, Canada - Executive Director, Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training
| 14:30- 15:00
| Discussion
| 15:00- 15:20 | Tea & Coffee
| 15:20- 17:20 | Speakers:
Maria Udén, Sweden - Post-Doctoral Researcher, Division of Gender, Technology and Organisation, Department of Human Work Sciences, Luleå University of Technology
Ulf Mellström, Sweden - Professor, Division of Gender, Technology and Organisation, Department of Human Work Sciences, Luleå University of Technology
Chair-Sujata Gothoskar, India - Education Coordinator, International Union of Food Workers
| 17:20- 17:50 | Discussion
| | | | SESSION 3: Interactive Research Frameworks – Approaching Gender in Community Informatics
| | Speakers:
Ewa Gunnarsson, Sweden - Professor & Head, Division of Gender, Technology and Organisation, Department of Human Work Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, Presentation 1 - Interactive research approach in science in general and researcher–participant relations in interactive and democratic research processes, in particular.
Chair- Gloria Bonder, Argentina- General Coordinator of the Regional UNESCO Chair Women, Science and Technology in Latin America
| 10:30- 11:00
| Discussion
| 11:00- 11:20
| Tea and Coffee
| SESSION 4: Framing Feminist Engagements in the Information Society - from Local to Global
Commenting on the discussions and presentations over the two days, the session will flag:
- critical factors shaping gender-related outcomes in community- based project and research design.
- strategic issues for feminist action that straddle the micro-macro spectrum.
| 11.20- 13:00
| Commentators:
Sujata Gothoskar, India - Education Coordinator, International Union of Food Workers,
Ulf Mellström, Sweden - Professor, Division of Gender, Technology and Organisation, Department of Human Work Sciences, Luleå University of Technology
Vinod Pavarala, India - Professor, S.N. School of Communication, University of Hyderabad
Gloria Bonder, Argentina - General Coordinator of the Regional UNESCO Chair Women, Science and Technology in Latin America
Chair- Rukmini Vemraju, India - Programme Officer, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia - Commonwealth of Learning
| 13.00- 14.00
| LUNCH
| SESSION 5: Open Discussion on the gender related concepts and frameworks informing and emerging from ICT project and interactive research designs.
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Moderators -
Ewa Gunnarsson, Sweden - Professor and Head, Division of Gender, Technology and Organisation, Department of Human Work Sciences, Luleå University of Technology
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