Bremen: 5th European Symposium on Gender & ICT

**Call for Contri­bu­ti­ons // Exten­ded Dead­line: Septem­ber 15, 2008**



5th Euro­pean Sympo­sium on Gender & ICT

«Digi­tal Cultu­res: Parti­ci­pa­tion – Empo­wer­ment – Diver­sity»

Univer­sity of Bremen, Germany, March 5 – 7, 2009



** Keyno­tes*: Lucy Such­man (Lancas­ter Univer­sity/UK), Tanja Paulitz (Unive­rity of Graz/A), Chat Garcia Ramilo (APC/Manila)



*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 still distri­bu­ted unequally, e.g. by class, ethni­city, age – and by gender. Access to and the ability to use infor­ma­tion and commu­ni­ca­tion tech­no­logy (ICT) are neces­sary prere­qui­si­tes for parti­ci­pa­tion. On top of this, invol­ve­ment in ICT design is a highly pres­ti­gi­ous acti­vity.



On the 5th Euro­pean Gender and ICT Sympo­sium we will take a closer look at the complex inter­de­pen­den­ces between gender and ICT. We will explore ways to incre­ase appre­ci­a­tion of diver­sity in design and use and to

strengt­hen empo­wer­ment and parti­ci­pa­tion by means of ICT. This confe­rence, the fifth in a row of sympo­sia held in Europe since 2003, tradi­ti­o­nally provi­des a meeting point for rese­ar­chers from vari­ous disci­pli­nes and rese­arch scho­ols dealing with gender and ICT. We invite

you to share your expe­ri­en­ces!



*Sub­mis­si­on* of /abstracts/ by* Septem­ber 15*, 2008.

Submis­sion of /posters/ by Janu­ary 15, 2009



*For more details, see the atta­ched Call for Contri­bu­ti­ons and*

http://gict2009.de



Program chairs

Prof. Dr. Susanne Maass, Prof. Dr. Heidi Schel­howe



Confe­rence orga­ni­sa­tion

Maike Hecht, Marlott Hede­rich, Anja Kümmel, Carola Schir­mer, Susanne

Maass, Heidi Schel­howe