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Gender Research and IT Construction: Concepts for a Challenging Partnership

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Gender Designs IT

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This Declaration of Principles for Information Society was made during the UN World Summit of the Information Society in Geneva 20031.

WSIS Declaration of Principles http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html

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  1. “Gender and Informatics” in the Department for Mathematics/Computer Science and in the Center for Feminist Studies, Bremen University, Germany

    Dr. Susanne Maass (Professor)

  2. Gender, ICT and Pedagogy at the Institute for Gender Studies, Nijmegen University, Netherlands

    Dr. Els Rommes (assistant-professor)

  3. Department for Mathematics/Computer Science and in the Center for Feminist Studies, Bremen University, Germany

    Carola Schirmer (sociologist and research assistant)

  4. Department for Mathematics/Computer Science, Bremen University, Germany

    Isabel Zorn (research assistant)

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Maass, S., Rommes, E., Schirmer, C., Zorn, I. (2007). Gender Research and IT Construction: Concepts for a Challenging Partnership. In: Zorn, I., Maass, S., Rommes, E., Schirmer, C., Schelhowe, H. (eds) Gender Designs IT. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90295-1_1

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