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A significant technological shift is presently shaping the process- and IT industry. A shift characterized by advanced IT solutions determines the basis of most production, organization and innovation processes. It is in the light of this development that ProcessIT (ProcessIT Innovations) actively act to connect process and manufacturing industries with leading actors within digital business and academia. The potential is to get already strong actors to collaborat in develop new and comptetitive digital products and services.
One problem often highlighted is that inspite of many years of work with active work to prevent gender inequalies there are still an unsatisfactory inbalance between the amount of active women and men. This inbalance concerns both process and IT industry, private as well as public sectors. Hence a critical issues is actions that promotes and caters for women's as well as men's experiences of IT-use are considered within the innovative system under development.
Often females experience that they are demanded an interest in changing present situations. As such the inbalance is turned into a 'feminine' problem that best is solved by actively engaging women in particular networks and clusters without any real support and/or relation with their own professional areas. At the time research on growth and innovation is showing that it is by bringing together and establishing trust among important individuals and actors from different bransches that innovations are likely to emerge.
One important question is therefore how systems of innovations best are organised without preventing important knowledge domains and experience to become visible in ongoing developments of innovative structures.
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The project Gender oriented design studies of innovative IT-use is financed by Vinnova and ProcessIT Innovations. The overall ambition with the project is to establish an infrastructure that make visible, possible and knowable genderscience as an important are for advanced research and development for digital design.
The fundamental idea behind our research is that there is a great demand for activites that describe, explore and change common preconceptions on gender, innovation and digital artefacts. It is in the spririt of this idea that this project aim to establish a sustainable infrastructure by which the relevance and significance of gender science is made visible, possible and knowable. One expected outcome from the project is to develop and integrate gender science as an important knowledge domain for advanced process and IT industry.
This page as well as related pages is under construction between 2007 and 2009. For further information about project activites and developments please contact any of the following project participants:
Anna Croon Fors
Christina Mörtberg
Eva Svedmark
Erik Stolterman
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