Information Society Watch

2007, IT for Change

This is a report of an international workshop conducted by IT for Change and Luleå University of Technology, Sweden in February 2007 in Mysore, India. The workshop took a systems approach that examined the intersecting grids of social and institutional change, gender transformative processes and techno-social models. The workshop aimed to look at ICT-induced change from different vantages, and attempted to synthesise gender perspectives in relation to contextual ICT-led models of social change. The workshop report is organised on the lines of emergent themes at the workshop, including identity and the public sphere, gender paradigms, community informatics and gender and the politics around knowledge creation.

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