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Spider welcomes you to its first seminar on ICT4D on December 19th 16.00-18.00 in room C at Forum, Isafjordsgatan 39 in Kista.
The seminar can be viewed live at spidercenter.org, or later on Vimeo.
The seminar draws on research among urban and rural farmers in Uganda on their access and use of ICTs in their everyday lives. Drawing on theories from gender and technology studies Caroline Wamala, PhD will analyze access and use of ICTs in Uganda and focus in particular on the cultural embeddedness of gender and technology from a development perspective. Here it is important to emphasize that access does not necessarily equal use and vice versa. Data from observations and interviews will be used to illustrate the importance of the social environment in which ICTs operate and how the underdeveloped state of the infrastructure prompted farmers’ to negotiate access and use in very innovative ways.
Caroline Wamala, PhD in Gender and Technology from Luleå Technical University and project officer at Spider.
Pirjo Elovaara, PhD is a lecturer at the School of Planning and Media Design, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). Pirjo was one of the Swedish partners in the Spider project Women's Digital Baskets in Rwanda.
At the seminar we will also launch the publication Women and ICT.
To celebrate this occasion and the upcoming holidays there will be glögg and pepparkakor after the seminar.
We hope to see you in Kista on the 19th.
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Spider is a resource center for ICT for Development (ICT4D). Spider functions like a node in a network of actors from academia, public sector, private sector, and civil society. Networking and brokering of knowledge and expertise is combined with support to innovative ICT4D activities in partner countries. The aim of Spider is to support the use of ICT for development and poverty reduction.
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