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Learning and Internationalism

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

On Tuesday afternoon, I attended the short paper session on Learning and Internationalism. Alannah Fitzgerald presented the first paper, Social computing and the microcredit activities, brought to our attention by Professor Yunus, 2006 Nobel prize winner. Learners are exposed to examples provided by the Overcoming Poverty network, tagged and aggregated via [...]

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Tags: ALT · ALT-C 2007 · Information Systems · Research

Disappearing Women

December 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Some colleagues of mine at Salford have been conducting research into Women in the IT profession.? In UK at least, women are haemorrhaging? out of the IT market, and their stories indicate some traumatic experiences.,? Watchout for these stories at Disappearing Women: North-West ICT: Stopping the Clock!! and add your comments!?
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Tags: gender