Administration

The Work Group consisted of Sandy Budden, community college teacher; Renate Krakauer, Program Manager in Continuing and Community Education at Humber College; Marion McAdam, student at York University Environmental Studies; Betty Ann Taylor, teacher of English as a Second Language; Lorraine Sutton, Student of Adult Education at O.I.S.E.; Marianne Williams, Student of Adult Education, O.I.S.E.

Secretary of State, Women's Programs (Regional) provided funding for the workshops. Facilities were made available at O.I.S.E. Administration and registration were handled through Humber College. The cost to participants was $15 per day. A design for a poster and the registration form were contributed by Dian Marino.

The three workshops were entitled:

1. Critical Issues: Women, Work, Change
2. Training and Re-training
3. The New Work Environment: Health and Work Design Issues

1. Presentation for Future is Now Conference
2. Video-tape
3. Educational materials
4. Published proceedings.

B. Tech Action Alliance

Currently the materials that we produced and collected are being used with a radio program called "Focus on Change". The women who are looking for jobs are going to have a chance to take a 'critical' look at the issues surrounding the new technology as they begin new jobs.

The video tape has already been used to create a one hour talk-back show on local television. I'm hoping that the tape and the proceedings, when it is published, will be available in the CCLOW resources files and will be available to a large audience that way.

Renate Krakauer and Sandy Budden have written programs for community colleges because of their work on the workshops.

One of the most exciting outcomes is the Tech Action Alliance which is a networking group that will connect individuals and organizations who are concerned to act collectively on the issues of the new technology.

Conclusion

Our most important objective was to raise awareness of the new technology. After each day we met to evaluate the sessions and to talk with some of the presenters and participants. In these sessions we realized that we had achieved some measure of success in reaching our goal.

Overall, this project was a valuable learning experience for the organizers and participants and in our opinion, provides a worthwhile model for others to follow or adopt.

Marianne Williams, feminist, active in community programming for women and women's education in Toronto, is currently writing a Master's thesis on the development of adult learning skills at the University of Toronto.