[eccr] Fwd: DIGITALES - feminism and ICT's

>DIGITALES.
>http://www.digitales-online.org (in evolution)
>4-7 December 2002
>Full days (9am - 9pm) of meetings/participation on work, knowledge, skills,
>experiences, dreams and questioning; this time of technological and feminist
>activity and continual exchange could give birth to a virtual network.
>*
>The place:
>Interface3, Rue du Méridien 30, 1210 Brussels, and
>Amazone, Rue du Méridien 10, 1210 Brussels
>
>*Contact and info: info@ digitales-online.org
>Digitales 2002 will continue to reveal, initiate and analyse by exploring
>women's image, role, place, tools, work and art in new technologies. This
>event combines professional, reflexive and artistic practices to feed
>political action.
>Women and machines have a long common history. Women created machines, named
>them or were named after them : computers, the Spinning, perforatrices
>(punch card operators), etc The machines were adapted to women and vice
>versa, women appropriated the machines and sometimes identified themselves
>to them. However; this common history has been largely overlooked. Digitales
>tries to discover this history with those who lived through it and with
>sociologists and historians, in order to understand the present better and
>to imagine the future.
>Where is the body ­ biological, gendered, foreign ­ in technology and
>raising the issue of racial discrimination in new technologies sector.
>What is it that the machine and machine-woman images have ignored and still
>deny: our female body, our skin, its colour? Digitales is inviting local and
>international artists, theoreticians and technicians who are reintroducing
>the idea and images of the body, skin and origins into machines and
>technologies which have often been thought as virtual or abstract.
>Sociologists and historians will also be invited to take us back to the
>reality and the images of work and labour in the past for a better
>understanding of these things today.
>What kind of machine behaviour do employers, trainers and vocational
>training organisations want us to adopt, integrate and carry forward ? Do
>they actually foresee the same jobs, motions and gestures in the future
>workplace ? Employers, women workers, labour researchers and vocational
>guidance organisations have been invited to speak of their present
>circumstances and debate about their expectations. What are machines, the
>tools and the trades for tomorrow's women ? The debate is open with the
>social partners.
>We must also introduce the context, the end product, the computer tools used
>and the data to be processed, by discovering what a database, a research
>engine, the public domain, the peer-to-peer, a portal, free and free access
>software and language are. Will our strength come from property rights over
>the object, the language and the information rather than from sharing,
>dialogue, information processing and analysis and the network ? Digitales
>will invite lawyers , artists, economists, programmers, policy makers and
>civil servants who think about their/our tools, their/our language,
>their/our production in the context of the public field and cultural
>heritage.
>How can we influence the rules of the game? Would changing the "operating
>system", tools, software, having access to source codes of technology, be a
>means of interaction between work, product and workers and users ?
>Digitales keeps "traces" of the days of meeting, discussion, workshops and
>lectures, organising the records and their distribution, creating its own
>audio and visual archiving spaces and tools. A radio web will be installed
>by the Interface 3 trainees in collaboration with members of Brussels free
>radio stations and with links to web radios run by women in vocational
>training and integration centres in Europe. It will also be an opportunity
>to have access to Digitales 2001 traces.
>Digitales also provides an opportunity for inter-generation and
>inter-training meetings: it makes room for neighbouring schools and the
>children and mothers of women in work placement and training schemes.
>
>*Partners
>Four organising associations, three in Brussels and one in Antwerp
>- Interface3 asbl: a centre and a team for vocational training and
>integration of women in new technologies http://www.interface3.be
>- Sophia: a coordination network for feminist/gender studies
>http://www.sophia.be
>- Constant vzw: an organisation linking artistic and theoretical thinking on
>the Internet and digital communication http://www.constantvzw.com
>- The Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities: a consortium of the
>University of Antwerp (UA) and the University Centre of Limburg (LUC). The
>Centre occupies an intermediary position between a research institute,
>public administration and civil society.
>http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be
>
>*Objectives
>Finding a common language to provoke thoughts and to work out a practice
>which will stimulate women's action in contemporary society and bring
>awareness of the concept of gender to the debates on new technologies
>through:
>- technological and creative initiation
>- understanding of the work tool
>- the critical analysis of new technologies
>- the discovery and the construction of new images and interactions
>- constructing history, means of transmitting experience
>Bringing together those who:
>- have or want to use technologies to earn their living and to provide for
>the needs of a family
>- have professional and technical skills on the cutting edge of information
>and communication technology and alternative systems
>- undertake university research in various disciplines and in various
>countries,
>- create their artistic work by using 'traditional' or 'new' media (film,
>video, Internet, digital support)
>- are interested by feminist thought on contemporary society.
>The Digitales project is part of the ADA Belgian network which aims to
>create an exchange, thought and action network on the subject of women and
>NTICs. Led by Interface3asbl in partnership with women's training
>organisations in computer information technology, @ron, ATEL, Sofft, NFTE,
>this project is supporte by the Belgian ministry of Labour and Employment
>and the ESF, and involves a wider collaboration with companies, guidance
>centres, schools, etc.
>
>***Contents
>*Workshops
>-Cybermilk
>- Linux Install Party en Opensource koffieklets, Garrels Machtelt,
>- Mongrel Linker Workshop Jarman mervin, Lewis Marlene
>- Présentation mode d'emploi : Dress for Success Massu Isabelle, Pierrot
>Peggy,
>- Filmer les Digitales (Vidéo), Rabadan Inès avec l'aide de/met de steun van
>Marie Vermeiren, Ella Elesse
>- WebRadio (pré-Digitales avec/met De Jaeger Pierre, Malevé Nicolas, Van
>Wynsberghe Wendy)
>- Server Debian (pré-Digitales avec Brodesser Jens-Ingo)
>*Forums/Tools
>- Les corps rêvés des femmes-machines - Memento cinématographique Andrin
>Muriel
>- Women's strategies - ICTs and communicating as a political project Björk
>Malin, Bracke Sarah
>- Beyond the Headlines: How do Web-based Alternatives Challenge Corporate
>News? Boler Megan
>- Gender en ICT: De digitale kloof in Vlaanderen, Broos Agnetha
>- Verscheidenheid in websites: toegankelijkheid, personalisering en gender,
>Claeys Laurence
>- Histoire de l¹informatique: Genres de machines, 1. La machine à écrire, 2.
>La naissance de l¹ordinateur, 3. La Place des Femmes, Collet Isabelle,
>Ingarao Maud
>- There's always more than one route to Rome or there's more than one way to
>skin a cat....., De Geuzen
>- AS/400 Operations Teamleader, Demeulenaere Fabienne
>- Stéréotypes,discrimination, norme masculine : théorie et pratique, Dumont
>Elisabeth
>- Les nouvelles technologies, Internet et le droit, Dusollier Séverine
>- Engager les techniques dans la pensée de la domination, Gardey Delphine
>- Presentatie van het STIVA-project, Geets Sara,
>- a href=½vifu:/" EUDORA="AUTOURL"http://www.vifu.de½;>vifu: some 
>strategies in undermining the
>gendered digital divide </a>, Guerses Seda
>- Comment Amnesty international utilise la technologie et l¹adapte aux
>droits des femmes? Guillitte Françoise, Rifflart Vincent
>- Stereotypen, discriminatie en mannelijkheid als norm: theorie en praktijk,
>Haesendonck Ilse, Klooster Marlies
>- Je m'appelle Mouchette
>- Verschillende (migranten)vrouwenorganisaties aan en in ICT Kotkamp Erna,
>Pierik Charlot
>- What do cyberfeminists Eat? And more importantly, what operating system do
>they use?, Mac Carty Diana
>- Organisation du travail dans le secteur des nouvelles technologies, Martin
>Jacqueline
>avec la visie/met de film van D'Hallivillée Christophe, 300 appels par jour
>- Discrimination raciale à l'embauche (sous réserve-o.v), Patel Jyostma,
>- Etat des lieux de l'utilisation de linux et des logiciels libres dans le
>secteur, Schneider Oliver
>non marchand, l'administration publique et les sociétés commerciales
>- Votre pc vu de l¹intérieur, Section Help desk - IF3
>- Time to Hack, Sollfrank Cornelia
>- L¹informatique va-t-elle continuer à faire mauvais genre?, Valenduc Gérard
>- Werk in uitvoering: genderaspecten van de carrièreopbouw in de ICT-sector,
>Valgaeren Elke
>- ZORRA Media Meldpunt, Van Hellemont Corine
>- How can Free Software promote personal freedom and development ?,
>Vandenabeele Peter
>- L'usage du CD Rom dans la formation en milieu bancaire, Woussen Cathy
>*Lectures
>- Hostages to Hospitality: The Case of Undercurrents, Aristarkhova Irina,
>- Globalization and women's networks, Fernandez Maria
>- Foreign bodies-www.mongrelx.org, Jarman mervin
>- Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges, Oldenziel Ruth
>- Las Narrativas del trabajo Romani Montse, Ruido Maria, Villaplana Virginia
>- RUsing¹ applications in office work: Stories about gender-technology
>relations, Stepulevage Linda
>-Le genre ignoré de la santé au travail, Vogel Laurent
>-------------
>4/12 " De informatiedag rond de Electronica en ADA projecten "
>14u00 Voorstelling van het Electronica-project
>15u15 Voorstelling van het ADA- en Digitales-project
>16u15 Debat
>17h00 Toespraak van de Europese Commissie,
>Eenheid ³Kennismaatschappij²
>17u30 Toespraak van de Vice-Eerste Minister, Minister van Werkgelegenheid,
>belast met het Gelijke Kansenbeleid Laurette Onkelinx
>4/12 " Journée d¹information des projets Electronica et ADA "
>14h00 Présentation du projet Electronica
>15h15 Présentation des projets ADA et Digitales
>16h15 Débat
>17h00 Intervention de la Commission européenne,
>Unité ³Société de la Connaissance²
>17h30 Allocution de la Vice-Première Ministre, Ministre de l¹Emploi
>chargée de la Politique d¹égalité des chances, Laurette Onkelinx

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