Women and Film in Africa Conference: Overcoming Social Barriers
July 19, 2011 12:51 PM
This is a 1st Call for Papers for a conference on the contemporary and historical
role played by women in the film, television and video industries in Africa. From
the Arab North Africa, West Africa, Central and East Africa, through to Southern
Africa, women have emerged from the double oppression of patriarchy and colonialism to become the unsung heroines of the moving image as producers, directors, actresses, script writers, financiers, promoters, marketers and distributors of film, television and video in postcolonial Africa. Sadly, such immense contributions by women are underrepresented, both in industry debates and in academic research.
PEOPLECERT Commiting to the Code of Best Practices for Women in ICT
February 10, 2011 12:32 PM
More than 50 companies -such as Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, France-Telecom, Google, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft,Οrange, Panasonic and SAP- have signed the ‘‘Code of Best Practices for Women and Technology’’- committing themselves to implement actions to eliminate women’s underrepresentation in the ICT sector. Since December 2010, the PEOPLECERT Group has recognized the problem and has been participating in the European Commission’s initiative by signing the Code of Best Practices for women in ICT.
genSET Capacity Building Workshops 2011
December 1, 2010 3:41 PM
genSET is an innovative project aiming to improve the excellence of European science through inclusion of the gender dimension in research and science knowledge making. genSET is holding three workshops in 2011 which will help your organisation develop institutional capacity for action on a specific area. The workshops will facilitate the development of practical gender mainstreaming plans that can be accommodated within the available functional mechanisms and structural dynamics of your organisation by providing you with access to gender expertise.
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European Gender Summit
June 18, 2011 8:57 AM
The European Gender Summit is held under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and is supported by the European Commission through the Science and Society Programme (FP7). The event is supported by a range of high-level partners and patrons from different sectors and backgrounds (see our list of Patrons and Partners). The European Gender Summit is organised jointly by genSET - gender in science, the European Science Foundation and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology.
ESTIA‐Earth: Women in Engineering, Computers, Science and Education
April 23, 2010 8:29 AM
The 5th International Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Education ICIE’10 continues the initiative of dissemination of innovations that improve the Engineering‐Computers‐Science higher education. ICIE is a major annual international conference devoted to improvements in education. It is an ideal forum for sharing ideas, learning about new developments in education, and interacting with colleagues worldwide.
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Empowering Arab women in the ICT sector, Morocco 6-7 December 2011.