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Opportunities
- Assisting communities to assess their need for technology and
to critically assess the impact of technology
- Collecting stories and sharing information and examples to
help women's organizations advance through the use of technology
- Involving women, including or especially young women, in the
process of introducing women to technology
- Establishment of criteria for evaluating opportunities
provided by new technologies with those provided by older technologies
Quality of Learning
- Development of evaluation measures for learning technologies
through establishing criteria for successful learning and woman-friendly
learning environments
- Through consultation, lobbying, information sharing, and
training for women, ensuring women's and educators' input into the design of
technologies, programs and software
- Developing evaluative strategies for the content of programs
and software, to identity inaccurate or injurious information, or offensive
content
- Ensuring that uses of technology for learning do not
eliminate creativity and personal expression
Impact on Women's Lives
- Sharing information about the privatization and
commodification of learning in order to resist such trends
- Organization of further face to face meetings of women to
discuss and network on issues relevant to technology
- Ensuring community involvement in institutional decision
making related to community uses and access of technology
- Establishment of procedures by which technology is used to
bridge distances and strengthen, rather than divide, communities
- Taking a more active role as women's organizations, CCLOW
included, in policy making and creating initiatives.
- Creating strong networks between women's and
educational/learning organizations to present a cohesive front on issues
related to technology and to take leadership in addressing issues, creating
solutions and promoting opportunities.
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