Past Events
October 18, 2006,
3:00 p.m., Nancy Hafkin: Gender and ICT lecture: Why
the World Isn’t Flat Enough: Bringing more women contributors and beneficiaries
into the information society
Cosponsored
by Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, the Office of
the Provost, Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership, Center for African
Studies, and Human and Community Development
The
lecture addressed the following:
Why
do women need information and communication technologies (ICTs)?
What
are the possibilities for women- especially poor women
in developing countries- in an information society?
Possibilities
in entrepreneurship and SMEs.
Situation
of women in science and technology education globally.
Dr.
Nancy J. Hafkin has been working to promote the development of information
and communications in Africa over the course of thirty years. She
spearheaded the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS)
of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) from 1987
until 1997. She then served as Team Leader for Promoting Information
Technology for Development, of ECA from 1997 until 2000, where she
was Coordinator of the African Information Society Initiative (AISI),
the African governments' mandate to use ICTs to accelerate socio-economic
development in Africa. Hafkin helped to establish the Partnership
for Information and Communication Technologies in Africa (PICTA),
a coordinating body of donor and executing agency partners in support
of the AISI. She initiated a number of early efforts at electronic
connectivity and organized major conferences on IT in Africa. In
2000 the Association for Progressive established an annual Nancy
Hafkin Communications Prize competition. She has written widely on
information technology, gender and international development. Nancy
Hafkin is the principal of Knowledge Working, a consultancy on information
technology and international development. She has a Ph.D. in history
(Africa) from Boston University. In 2006, Nancy Hafkin and Sophia
Huyer (eds) published From Cinderella or Cyberella? Empowering Women
in the Information Age.
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“The
Impact of Information Technology on Women Globally”
Dr. Gale Summerfield
Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program at UUIC
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 7pm
Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory Auditorium, 601
S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL.
Dr.
Summerfield, an economist, is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Human and Community Development and in Gender and
Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. She has written
extensively on gender aspects of socio-economic transformation policies
including employment and intrahousehold bargaining changes in China
and housing and land rights in East and Southeast Asia. Her current
research focuses on gender and human security (health, property rights,
and income); gender differences and social networks among immigrants
in rural communities; and risks and rights in the processes of globalization.
Sponsored
by
The American Association of University Women
Champaign-Urbana Branch
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Globalization,
Transnational Migration, and Gendered Care Work
A
WGGP symposium in Globalizations,
September,
2006, Volume 3, Number 3.
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Risks
and Rights in the 21st Century
This project in 2000-2001 focused on cutting-edge
work on gender issues involved in the broad definitions of
security and risk (including political, economic, environmental,
and household-level
issues) and rights (collective and individual aspects of
human rights, property and other legal/customary rights,
and international
issues
in political rights).The WGGP Symposium 2000 explored these
themes. Revised papers from the symposium were published
as a special issue
of the International Journal of Politics, Culture and
Society, September 2001 (see WGGP
Publications).
Gender
and Agribusiness Project (GAP)
Funded
by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), GAP developed
model partnership
agreements with international agribusiness firms to explore issues
of economic growth related to women's employment in the agribusiness
sector in developing countries, to document "best practices" that
address gender-based constraints to women's employment and economic
status, and to develop a partnership strategy for extension of these
and other practices across the sector.
