Project Description

National and European Literature Reviews

Reviews of empirical and theoretical research on gender, technology and inclusion across Europe, and in particular in Norway, UK, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands. It includes European and national statistical reviews, details of policies and concerns in each country, and theoretical debates. Topics range from national policy, though education, training, design, employment to discussion of cultural differences and the co-construction of gender and technology meanings.

Book available to download (Jan 2003)

Case Studies of Inclusion Initiatives and User Experiences

These three reports contain 45 case studies and initial analysis of public sector, non-governmental and commerical inititives to include women in the information society, and studies of the target groups of those intitatives. The cases cover a wide range of situations, from national government policy to women's networking organistions and design of video games. The cases represent individually as well as collectively very important insights into the way gender and ICT is understood and managed in many organisations and government and industry sectors across Europe. These cases are currently the basis of the development of analytical tools to help policy-makers, designers and relevant practitioner communities improve their efforts to get more women integrated into the design and use of the technologies of the Information Society, on the basis of case studies of public initiatives to include women in ICT.

• Case Studies Of Public Efforts To Include Women In ICT (Aug 2003)
• Case Studies Of Private Efforts To Include Women In ICT (Aug 2003)
• Qualitative interview study of female user experiences (Aug 2003)

Analysis of Case Studies and Practitionner Guidelines

• Policy and Practitioner Briefings Jan 2004
• D06 Designing Inclusion: analysis of issues related to design of IT products and services for women, and employment in ICT and new media sectors (Jan 2004)
• SIGIS D07: Gender and Inclusion Policies for the Information Society: policy conclusions based on all the SIGIS research (April 2004)
• HTML Documents online