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 - Using¹ 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