CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium Gender & ICT: Strategies of Inclusion Research on the inter-relations between Gender and Information & Communication Technologies is dynamic, multidisciplinary, engaging and creative. In January 2003 the symposium 'Gender and ICT: Where are we at' was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We aim to pursue the discussions begun there and therefore we are pleased to announce the symposium entitled: Gender & ICT: Strategies of Inclusion This symposium aims to be a meeting point for researchers from different disciplines and research schools that are familiar with ICT and gender studies, women's studies or feminist studies. The symposium will be held in Brussels on 20 January 2004. We invite abstracts on the following themes : - Women, Work and Computerization - Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life - Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics Education - Gendering Technology: Structure and Design Examples of possible paper sections in the different themes: Women, Work and Computerization Job profiles and the influence of ICT, the impact of ICT skills in the job function classifications, influence of ICT on work organisation, computerization of work and surveillance, portrayal of ICT (functions), etc. Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life Possession and use of ICT, domestication, ICT-literacy, user and skill divide, consequences of use of ICT in the organisation of daily work and private life, ICT and family life, privacy and ethics, wearables and biometrics, on-line activities, interaction, Participation and democracy, etc. Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics Education Gender differences in ICT-use in school contexts Computer attitudes, learning styles, informatics curriculum, e-learning, feminist pedagogies, ICT and lifelong learning, etc. Gendering Technology: Structure and Design Women designing and shaping contents and systems of the new technologies, social shaping of technology, production of ICT, feminist critiques of computing, gender scripts of technology, participatory design, user-friendlessness, adaptivity, etc. The deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words) is November 15. The final programme will be available by December 15. The working language of the symposium will be English. Abstracts may be submitted to: Laurence Claeys or Sarah Meersman at: steunpuntgeka@ua.ac.be Programme Committee: Els Rommes, Sally Wyatt, Anne-Catherine Devolder, Magda Michielsens and Laurence Claeys. The symposium is a joint initiative of the Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities (Belgium) and the European SIGIS (Strategies of Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society) network. It is part of Digitales and is supported by the. Dutch Association for Gender and Technology (The Netherlands). During the symposium, members of SIGIS will present their final research reports. Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities : http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be (website only in Dutch) Dutch Gender and Technology Association: http://www.indexsociety.nl/genderictsymposium/aboutvgt.htm Digitales: http://www.digitales-online.org SIGIS (Strategies of Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society): http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/sigis/ Website of the conference: http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be/genderandict [still under construction].