Milena Workshop 2001

Milena Workshop November 23, 2001 City Hall Primatial Palace Primaciálny nám. 2 814 99 Bratislava

IT-GAP The role of women in a virtual society – the case of the Czech and the Slovak Republic and Hungary

Organisers Women’s Office of the City of Vienna Europaforum Wien

Background and Orientation

The Milena Workshop “IT-GAP” is following up the International Conference “ITechWomen”, jointly organized by the Women´s Office of the City of Vienna and Europaforum Wien. The intention of the workshop is to make the results and contents of the conference accessible and utilizable for the countries of the Milena Region - in particular for Hungary, the Slovak and the Czech Republic - and to outline possible concepts and strategies for the development of the awareness in these countries. For participants of the workshop we recommend to take a look at the papers of the conference that are available on www.itech-women.at / documents. The increasingly fast development of the new technologies is changing our societies and our personal and professional lives dramatically and lastingly. The “ITech-Women” Conference preceding the Workshop will address the different societal fields affected by the increasing use of IT, especially concerning effects on the labour market, new demands in the field of education, training, qualification and life-long learning, challenges and opportunities brought about by the changes in the professional world, as well as questions on how to achieve more and better participation and influence in decision making processes – with a view to the specific impact and consequences of these developments for women. The Milena workshop provides a forum to jointly discuss and analyse the findings and conclusions of the conference for the Milena region. Another integral part of the workshop will be the discussion of the specific background and conditions/reasons for the lack in sensitisation for IT-gender issues, as well as the lack of consciousness concerning new challenges and possibilities for women brought about by the spreading of new technologies. The impact and significance of a gendered IT-discussion for the labour-market, for the education and training system and not least for the competitiveness of the CEECs in the process of EU-enlargement shall be assessed. The questions to be dealt with will focus on possibilities of agenda-setting, defining actors and levels to carry such a process forward, as well as finding multipliers at different levels.

City of Bratislava Research Institute for Labor, Social Affairs and Family Coordinating Committee for Women´s Issues of the Slovak Ministry of Social

Affairs and Family Association of Slovak Regions

10.00 10.30

Registration / coffee and refreshments Welcome & Introduction Daniela Lessing Head of Women´s Office City of Vienna, Austria Representative of co-operation partners in the Slovak Republic

11.00

Session 1 Women in male-dominated professions in Hungary Katalin Koncz Head of Women Studies Centre Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary Discussion

11.45

Session 2 Strategies for the informatisation of the Slovak society Darina Mrvova Head of Informatisation Department Slovak Ministry of Education, Slovak Republic Discussion

12:30

Visit of the historical Primatial Palace and lunch break

14.15

Session 3 Women´s Development and Possibilities in a Virtual World Magdalena Třebická Commercial Executive ECC - European Consulting Company, s.r.o., Czech Republic

15:00

Open discussion and conclusions Chair Ulrike Weissenbacher Deputy Managing Director Europaforum Vienna, Austria

16:00

End of the Workshop

Katalin Koncz Director of the Women´s Studies Centre Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary Ms. Katalin Koncz is engaged in cross-cultural analyses and comparison. In her teaching profession at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences Ms. Koncz works with students on issues like “Women in the Labour Market”, “Women in Hierarchy” and “Communication skills for women”. She has worked out special “train-the-trainer programs” for women managers, entrepreneurs and gypsy women as well as a assertive behaviour program for women. In her speech, Ms. Koncz will focus on the situation of women in male dominated professions in Hungary with a special view to telework, engineering and informatics. The issues will be addressed from the angle of the labour market and the educational systems. Darina Mrvová Head of the Department for Informatisation of the Slovak society Slovak Ministry of Education, Slovak Republic As a programmer, Ms. Mrvova has experienced herself what “being a women in the male dominated informatics sector” means. For 15 years, she has been working in the Slovak Ministry of Education in the field of information technologies. Currently, Ms. Mrvova is working on the elaboration and realisation of strategies for the informatisation of the Slovak society. Her presentation will focus on these strategies and measures of the Slovak government towards the information society in the Slovak Republic. Třebická Magdalena Commercial executive European Consulting Company (ECC), s.r.o., Czech Republic The European Consulting Company is concerned with the implementation and distribution of information technologies and the consulting in these processes. Over the last few years, the focus was drawn especially towards the support for the implementation of internet technologies, e-business and webdesign. ECC is additionally consigned to introduce the European Computer Driving Licence Project in the Czech Republic. Ms. Třebická will look at the changing demands and possibilities that women meet in the new virtual reality, especially concerning their personality, their entrepreneurship and the development of their gender specific skills.

English Assistance in Czech, German, Hungarian and Slovak can be provided

Due to limited number of participants may we ask you to return your registration to Europaforum Wien by e-mail ([email protected]) or fax (+43 1 585 85 10-30) by November 14, 2001.

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For accommodation (at your own expense / prices are reasonable) in the Old Town Palace you can contact the Centre for further education of the Economic University of Bratislava, Mrs. Adamyova: tel.+ fax: 421 2 544 14 308.

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