Gender Gaps and the Social Inclusion Movement in ICT

Despite advancements in technological and engineering fields, there is still a digital gender divide in the adoption, use, and development of information communication technology (ICT) services. This divide is also evident in educational environments and careers, specifically in the STEM fields. In order to mitigate this divide, policy approaches must be addressed and improved in order to encourage the inclusion of women in ICT disciplines. Gender Gaps and the Social Inclusion Movement in ICT provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of gender and policy from developed and developing country perspectives and its applications within ICT through various forms of research including case studies. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as digital identity, human rights, and social inclusion, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, academicians, researchers, students, and technology developers seeking current research on gender inequality in ICT environments.

Dr. Idongesit Williams is a lecturer with the Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies (CMI) located at Aalborg University Copenhagen. He holds a Bachelor in Physics, a Master degree in Information and Communications Technologies and a Ph.D. He has since 2010 researched into socio-economic, socio-technical related to Information and Communications Technologies. His research areas include the facilitation of telecom and ICT infrastructure using Public Private Partnerships, the development and the sustenance of Community-Based Networks, e-government implementation, Science and Technology Studies, gender adoption of ICTs, Organizational adoption of ICTs, User experience with ICTs and Organizational Learning. He has authored more than 26 research publications, including journal papers, books, book chapters, conference papers and magazine articles. He is the co-editor of the Book, The African Mobile Story. He has delivered presentations at conferences and also helped in organizing conferences such as the CMI annual conference and the CMI/GTUC conferences.

Olga Millward is a PhD fellow at Aalborg University Copenhagen and holds a master degree in law. She is an experienced lawyer, specialising in ICT and telecommunications law as well as in other more general legal subjects. The title of her study is “Legal and political challenges and solutions to ICT deployments for development of the Digital society in Ukraine”. As part of interdisciplinary research, she also analyses policy and strategy development for implementation of e-government platform (e-services) and smart urban digital solutions for sustainable living environment taking recent world best practices and particularly those developed within Danish Smart City concept and real life cases as models of possible adaption or replication. She is an external lecturer at Erhvervsakademi Zealand Denmark on the following legal subjects: IT contract, copyright protection of software, legal aspects of Open Source Software in commercial projects.

Roslyn Layton is an international expert in evidence-based policy for information & communications technology (ICT) industries. She is a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Communication, Media, and Information Technologies (CMI) at Aalborg University and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She holds a PhD from the Doctoral School of Engineering and Science at Aalborg University in Denmark. Her doctoral thesis investigated the empirical outcome of net neutrality policy across 53 countries, using data science and business economics to measure the impact of different types of rules on the level of mobile app innovation. She holds an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management where she was awarded the Wall Street Journal Europe Women in Business Scholarship and an undergraduate degree from the School of International Service at the American University in Washington D.C. with a focus on economics and Japanese studies. Roslyn writes on technology policy for Forbes, US News and World Report, and AEIdeas. Prior to academe, she worked in the information technology (IT) industry and financial industry. She was a business development executive for TCS Innovation Labs in Hyderabad, India focusing on bioinformatics, algorithmic finance, and e-security. She managed a leading digital advertising agency with the Coremetrics IBM analytics platform serving 2000 companies from San Mateo, CA. As a financial advisor at Piper Jaffray, she worked with non-profit organizations on fund development and endowment management. Roslyn serves on the Program Committee of the Telecom Policy Research Conference.