The conferences are aimed at generating debate on best practices and measures to end the digital gap at all its levels.
Digital Equality Education (November 4th)
This first online roundtable focuses on the area of girls and young women, addressing the first two levels of the digital gap: access and education.
Speakers:
María Villarroya Gaudó
Graduated in Physical Sciences (2000) from the University of Zaragoza, and Doctor in Electronic Engineering (2005) from the autonomous University of Barcelona, she currently works as a Titular Professor in the area of Computer Architecture and Technology at the University of Zaragoza. Her research career is currently focused on heterogeneous multiprocessor systems, with special interest in workload balancing. She has carried out international research stays and collaborated with other national and international research groups, whose results have been published both in indexed journals and conference papers. Her personal interest in equal opportunities between men and women has led her to engage in various scientific dissemination works and to develop a line of research in the sociological study of engineering students and professionals with a gender perspective. She is president of the ‘AMIT-Aragón’ node from which she launched the project ‘Una ingeniería en cada cole’ (An engineer in every school) with the support of the Aragonese Institute for Women, the Government of Aragón and the University of Zaragoza. The objective of the project is to bring children closer to the importance of engineering in our daily lives, as well as to encourage girl’s interest in technological careers. In addition, she was the first Director of the Equality Observatory of the University of Zaragoza and she is currently Director of the Internationalisation Secretariat.
Alicia García-Holgado
Computer Engineering (2011), Master in Intelligent Systems (2013) and PhD (Cum Laude) (2018) from the University of Salamanca. She has been member of the GRIAL Research Group at the University of Salamanca since 2009, where she currently co-leads the ‘Responsabilidad social e inclusion’ (social responsibility and inclusion) line. Her research focuses on the development of technological ecosystems for knowledge management and learning processes in heterogeneous contexts, as well as the promotion of diversity and inclusion in the STEM field, with particular attention to engineering and technology. It is noteworthy the organisation and participation in a large number of activities aimed at reducing the gender gap in STEM. She has participated as technological support, later as researcher and carrying out coordination tasks in more than 50 regional, national and international research projects, among which should be highlighted the ‘Capacity Building with Latin America W-STEM’ project (https://wstemproject.eu). Moreover, it should be noted that she is a member of the IEEE (Women in Engineering, Education Society and Computer Society), ACM (and ACM-W) and AMIT (Association of Researcher and Technologist Women).
Lidia Arroyo Prieto
Sociologist and researcher in the Gender and ICTs group (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute- Open University of Catalonia) and associate professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). At the UOC, she works as a researcher on European projects on gender equality in science (CASPER, GenPORT, ACT, EFFORTI) and on the detection of labour competences for digital social innovation (+Resilient) and she is the Principal Researcher of the project "Open data portal and study on the impact of occupational segregation on the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective of intersectional gender". She is also a visiting researcher in the area of Gender, Society and Politics at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Argentina) and at the Fondation Travail-Univeristé (FTU-Namur) at the University of Namur (Belgium). Among her works, stands out the progress study of Fundación Alternativas ‘Las competencias digitales para el crecimiento económico en igualdad de oportunidades’ (Digital competences for economic growth on equal opportunities).
Natalia Papí Gálvez
University lecturer in the Department of Communication and Social Psychology of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of Alicante (UA), where she has been teaching on the official degree in Advertising and Public Relations since 2001. She has been the Vice-Dean of the Degree in Advertising and Public Relations and Coordinator of the University Master's Degree in Digital Communication, qualifications attached to the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies. She currently coordinates the University Master's Degree in Digital Communication and leads the Generational Digital Gap Chair of the UA and the Valencian Government.
Her lines of research and teaching focus on the field of ‘Research and Media Planning’ which includes, among other aspects, the measurement of audiences in the digital society and which are key to understanding how people relate to new media, their acceptance of technological innovations and reducing the gaps at all levels.
Silvia Rueda Pascual
Computer Science Engineer and PhD in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Valencia (UV). She is the Director of the Department of Computer Science at the ETSE-UV, where she works as Titular Professor. She has participated in numerous research and transfer projects, with public entities and companies in the ICT sector. She has published a wide variety of works in national and international journals and conferences. During the last few years, her research has converged with her teaching, focusing on the area of Software Engineering, and she currently works on software development from a gender perspective. She is a member of the Association of Researcher and Technologist Women (AMIT) and works actively to promote gender equality, particularly in the engineering field. Currently, she is the STEM head of the UV and director of the Chair for the Digital Gender Gap, created by the UV and the Valencian Government. She also coordinates the Girls4STEM project, aimed at reducing the gender gap in STEM.
Moderator: Anabel Forte Deltell
Graduated in Mathematics (2005) and Statistical Sciences and Techniques (2006) and PhD (2011) from the University of Valencia. She currently works as a Titular Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operational Research (I.O) at the UV, where she develops her teaching and researcher work, combining them with management and dissemination. Her main lines of research can be summarised in two: Bayesian Quantification of uncertainty in model selection and Bayesian hierarchical models for correlated data. She collaborates with different research groups both in Spain and abroad, in a wide range of areas (Health, Economics, Biology, etc.) among which stands out her participation as principal researcher in the SAGI SOUTH group of the University of Adelaide. She is an active member of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, of the Spanish Society of Biostatistics and the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operational Research (SEIO). Stands out her role as a disseminator, and she weekly collaborates on the radio program of scientific dissemination ‘Raíz de 5’ of the Spanish National Radio (RNE) and on various projects of science and technology dissemination such as ‘StatWars: The Empire of Data for Statistics and Data Science Dissemination, and Girls4STEM, a project aimed at promoting vocations in the STEM areas mainly among girls, as well as having a blog http://anabelforte.com/ in which she publishes her articles on statistics (Bayesian, of course) and her mathematic poems #Poemaths.
Women and digitalisation (November 5th)
This second roundtable focuses on the adult woman field, in this case dealing with the three levels of the digital gap: access, education and employment.
Speakers:
Cecilia Castaño Collado
Professor of Applied Economics in the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she works as Professor of Gender and Employment in the Master’s Degree on Gender studies: Public Policies and Social Intervention. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at three of the world’s most prestigious universities: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University y University of California Berkeley.
She is a gender expert within the areas of Information Technology (ICT) and Science, Engineering and Technology (STEM), she has focused her work on the study of the technological innovation’s impact – and particularly ICTs- on employment and work. She has led research projects at the University of Alcalá, the University of Sevilla and the Complutense University of Madrid and she has participated in European research projects on access policies and promotion of talent, dynamics of virtual work and gender and ICTs. Among all them, stand out projects for the European Commission, the National Plan R+D+I, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Employment, the Women’s Institute, the Regional Government of Andalusia and the Government of Catalonia.
Patricia Horrillo Guerra
With a multidisciplinary background, she has been doing collaborative projects in various areas for more than a decade. After finishing her degree on Applied Languages (English Studies with Marketing and Communication) and Journalism, she worked in media such as Público and La Marea, between Madrid and Barcelona. She is highly interested in social and cultural movements and she coordinates Wikisfera in Medialab Prado since 2015. One of the main objectives of this learning group is to break with the fears that many people feel when getting close to a wiki environment, as well as to value the individual contributions to the collective narration of history. As a feminist, Horrillo claims the need for women take their role as editors at Wikipedia, where there is a huge gender gap and nearly 90% of those who build the free encyclopaedia are men. She also considers necessary that there should be more content related to women, as well as biographies in which their contribution to history is valued. Her conferences, workshops and ‘editatonas’ (edition marathons with a gender perspective) are aimed at raising awareness of the current situation of women’s invisibility in this and other digital environments, and at bringing in more female editors in Wikipedia so that the narration of history does not end up mutilated. She also offers talks on the transformation of journalism and gives workshops on different communication tools and new media, emphasising the need of generating active communities and break with the traditional model of one-way broadcasting.
María Ángeles Sallé
She defines herself as Spanish, Panamanian and migrant. PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Valencia, Master’s degree on Gender Equality in the public and private sectors from the Jaume I University and graduated in Political Sciences and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid. She has more than 35 years of experience in the promotion, planning, integral management and evaluation of policies and initiatives for socio-economic and technological development and change, in Spain and Latin America, based on innovation and inter-institutional and public-private cooperation.She has more than 20 years of activity as international consultant for, among others, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UN Women, the Inter-American Development Bank (BID), the European Social Fund, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Central American Integration System (SICA), and the Ciudad del Saber Foundation. She has been director of the National Observatory of Telecommunications and the Information Society (2018-2020), general director of the Salamanca Emprende Consortium (1995-1996), director of State Foundation for Training in Employment (FUNDAE) (1993-1995), adviser to the Minister of Social Affairs (1990-1993), national coordinator of New Opportunities for Women (NOW) of the European Social Fund (1990-1993) and head of the Employment and Training area at the Women’s Institute (1987-1989). In her business career, she founded and has been managing partner of Enred Consultancy www.enred.es (1996-2018), a company dedicated to the integral execution of programmes and projects for socio-economic development, digital society and gender equality. As for her role as cultural disseminator and promoter, she has served as speaker in numerous national and international forums, participating as author, co-author and/or coordinator in more than thirty publications in her speciality fields, and she has promoted the network of foreign artists in Spain ‘Entre dos Orillas’.
Josefina Bueno Alonso
Graduated and PhD in Philosophy and Arts from the University of Murcia. Professor of French Studies at the University of Alicante. Among her research studies stand out those carried out on the relations between intellectuals on both sides of the Mediterranean, as well as the role of the Spanish language as a language of literary creation in Africa. She has been principal researcher of different research projects of the Ministry of Universities, formerly MICINN (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities). She is a specialist in gender studies and African literature written by women. In the last few years, she has worked on gender speech and the identity speech of Muslim women in the Western Diaspora. She is member of the University Institute of Gender Studies (IUIEG) at the University of Alicante. She has been vice-rector of University Extension at the same university and she directed the African Library at the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library. She was head of University, Research and Science of the Valencian Government, a position from which she promoted numerous equality measures in the scientific policy field. In addition, she is collaborator in mass media in which she publishes opinion articles. Currently, she is senator for the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) and is president of the Senate’s Equality Commission and chairperson of the Joint Committee on Parliamentary Control of the RTVE Corporation and its bodies and the Joint Committee for the European Union. She likes to define herself as a militant feminist.
Moderator: Silvia Rueda Pascual
Computer Science Engineer and PhD in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Valencia (UV). She is head of the Department of Computer Science of the ETSE-UV, where she works as Titular Professor. She has participated in numerous research and transfer projects, with public entities and companies in the ICTs sector. She has published a wide variety of works in national and international journals and conferences. During the last few years, her research has converged with her teaching, focusing on the area of Software Engineering, and she currently works on software development from a gender perspective. She is a member of the Association of Researcher and Technologist Women (AMIT) and works actively to promote gender equality, particularly in the engineering field. Currently, she is the STEM head of the UV and director of the Chair for the Digital Gender Gap, created by the UV and the Valencian Government. She also coordinates the Girls4STEM project, aimed at reducing the gender gap in STEM.
