Inclusion and Technology Design

Inclusion and Technology Design

There is mounting evidence that meaningful access to ICTs and the competencies required for their effective use are entangled in a complex web of relationships between people’s skills, social positions, and wider social networks. As a result, while considering an inclusive [digital] society, these challenges must be considered as key variables influencing people’s use of it.

This workshop provides a quick conceptual and practical toolset for integrating technical and social support to achieve greater inclusiveness in ICT design. To that goal, we’ll examine three axes of exclusion: class, disability, and gender. The goal of the Inclusion and Technology Design course is to emphasize how technology can become exclusive, how it can affect different groups of society, and how we might conceive of alternative design principles to make our ICTs more inclusive.

The layout of the Inclusion and Technology Design course
Week 1: Introduction: Technology design’s political nature
Week 2: Women in Technology: Why Does a Lack of Female Technologists Affect Technology Design and Development?
The layout of the course
Week 1: Introduction: Technology design’s political nature
Week 2: Women in Technology: Why Does a Lack of Female Technologists Affect Technology Design and Development?
Week 3:Gender and Technology: Challenges and Concerns
Week 4: Information and Communication Technologies and Gender: Field Concerns and Project Management are Critical for Technology Design