2. Symposia

Since June 1982, several other symposia have been held, dealing with some aspect of micro technology. In certain cases, the resource persons stressed that the knowledge they had acquired at our conference had been very useful. Developments indicate a real synergy, meeting all our expectations, as the following list shows:

• Françoise Poirier, full professor at University Laval, presided at a meeting, "La micro-informatique dans le travail et l'éducation. The proceedings of the symposium will probably be available on request.

• Two hundred Montreal women gathered for a one-day study session, entitled "Le monde mystérieux des ordinateurs" (The Mysterious World of Computers), organized by the YWCA

• In August, Eileen Clarke, past President of the Canadian Federation of University Women, presented a report on the "Future is Now" conference during that organization's triennial meeting in Winnipeg. Speaking at that meeting's banquet, Naomi Griffiths, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Carleton University, dealt with "Social and Ethical Implications of New Systems of Communication.

• The group, "Community Resources for Women" of Kitchener, Ontario, chose microcomputers as the subject of its annual meeting, held in March 1983.

• In July, Alan Mirabelli of the Vanier Institute of the Family shared certain ideas acquired at our conference, when he was main speaker at the meeting of the Canadian Home Economics Association.

• Arleigh Smith dealt with the effects of microtechnology on the office during a November meeting of the University Women's Club in Perth, Ontario.

• In October, 200 people concerned with international development and education participated in a conference sponsored by the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation. The subject of one of the workshops was "The Impact of Microtechnology on Canada and the Third World".

• The Committee on the Feminine Condition, of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, took on the responsibility of their organization's provincial meeting. Its theme was "Women and Work," and a workshop was devoted to microtechnology.

• In November, Sher Anderson was speaker at the symposium, "Women and the Computer Age," held in Regina. As a result of this symposium, action research groups were established in Saskatoon and Regina.

• In March 1983, Sabina Rohlfs of Interface Associates, Ottawa, addressed the "International Computing Symposium" in Nuremberg, West Germany. The theme was "Office Communication: Promises, Problems and Pitfalls."