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Mobile Learning Week 2018 – Skills for a Connected World (Paris, France)
UNESCO Headquarters Paris, FranceMobile Learning Week is UNESCO’s flagship ICT in education conference. Mobile Learning Week 2018 is being organized in partnership with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for ICT. The event will be held from 26 to 30 March at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The 2018 event will be organized under the […]
Beyond Access: Using Digital to Further Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (Gender & Development online discussion)
Sara Baker of Take Back the Tech! Dhanaraj Thakur from the Alliance for Affordable Internet, an initiative of the Web Foundation Divya Titus #IWillGoOut Campaign, social activist and gender consultant Introduced by Caroline Sweetman, Editor of G&D Moderated by Amy O’Donnell, Digital Specialist at Oxfam, Board member of anti-harrassment charity Hollaback! and co-editor of our ICTs issue. The webinar will […]
We Need to Talk About Robots: Gender, Datafication and AI
University of Westminster 309 Regent Street Room: RS UG04, London, United KingdomThis talk reviews how the acceleration of data infrastructure development and growing adoption of data practices in everyday life are entwined with wider cultural discourses about gender and sexuality. Using artificial intelligence (AI) assistants and social robots such as Alexa and Siri as an example, it analyses these links from a feminist data studies perspective […]