Implementing Gender Issues in ICT
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The rapid technological changes caused by ICT have a strong impact on global societies. This will lead to changes in the traditional role patterns. In this paper we focus on an academic master course to create gender awareness in ICT development with a special emphasis on developing countries. First we analyze the impact of ICT on society, and derive requirements from society on the introduction of new ICT applications. We transform these requirements into course objectives, and discuss and motivate our strategy to obtain these objectives in the master course. Then we decompose the course objectives and derive a course program.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009