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Women Engineers & Scientists in the Digital Economy and Industry 4.0

INWES - The International Network of Women Engineers & Scientists


Session 334

16:30–18:15, Thursday, 15 June 2017 Room L2, ITU Montbrillant Thematic Workshop

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Take off your invisibility cloak! This is the 21st century!

The workshop will put the light on the role of women engineers & scientists all along the
past decades and will raise the profile of our role models. It shall emphasize on women
in the innovation process and come with concrete recommendations for a genderbalanced
WSIS.

Moderator

Yvette Ramos, secretary General INWES Europe

Speakers/Panellists

Provisional programme

Welcome address and reason to be of the workshop

by Eng. Yvette Ramos, Secretary General INWES(1) Europe

High-Level address by H. E. Minister of ICTs and Digital Economy of the Republic of Benin, Eng. Rafiatou Monrou

Keynote : Bridging the Divide: the state of gender in this world of technology

by Dr. Sarah Peers, Vice-President of Women's Engineering Society (WES, UK), Chair Communications of INWES-Europe

A regional perspective on the e-world:

Panel with resource people, moderated by Pascale Fressoz, Consultant, France

·      Eng. Ms Olga Cavalli, ICANN(2), ISOC(3) Chapter President, Argentina  – video-conference –

·      Lorraine Mc Dowell, President, Elargis Tes Horizons project, Switzerland

·      Eng. Ms Betty Bonnardel-Azzarelli, president of the SSPI(4) UK, member of the Council of UK’s WES(5) and member of INWES Europe Board -  – video-conference –

·      Florence Coulin, biologist & consultant in neuro-education & neuro-management, Switzerland

·      Sangeeta Wij, president of WISE(6)- India,  (to be confirmed)

Debate with the public, Q&A

Conclusions/recommendations/way forward 

(1)    INWES          International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists

(2)    ICANN          Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

(3)    ISOC              Internet Society

(4)    SSPI               Society of Satellite Professionals

(5)    WES           Women’s Engineering Society

(6) WISE-India  women Engineers & Scientists India

Session's link to WSIS Action Lines

  • AL C1 logo C1. The role of public governance authorities and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • AL C3 logo C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C4 logo C4. Capacity building
  • AL C5 logo C5. Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
  • AL C6 logo C6. Enabling environment
  • AL C7 e-Gov logo C7. ICT Applications: E-government
  • AL C7 e-Lea logo C7. ICT Applications: E-learning
  • AL C7 e-Emp logo C7. ICT Applications: E-employment
  • AL C7 e-Sci logo C7. ICT Applications: E-science
  • AL C8 logo C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
  • AL C9 logo C9. Media
  • AL C10 logo C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
  • AL C11 logo C11. International and regional cooperation

As a follow-up activity of our last year workshop (organized by Swiss Engineering a key partner of the INWES network) on building a Code of Ethics in engineering, maybe we would like to propose also this year that it is a topic of the WSIS. Integrating a Code of Conduct towards environment could link up C1. C7.C10., where we, engineers in ICTs, and more generally engineers and architects worldwide, need to support the protection of the global environment and promotes environmentally sound and sustainable economic development as a fundamental element of its poverty reduction strategies and actions.

Session's link to Sustainable Development Process

  • Goal 4: Quality education logo Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Goal 5: Gender equality logo Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth logo Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
  • Goal 10: Reduced inequalities logo Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions logo Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
  • Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals logo Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Responsibility is a main topic nowadays: without education, individuals will not be able to take responsibilities in the digital transformation. Serving humanities through achievement of the WSIS action lines and quick strategies for SDGs implementation, with the high contribution of engineering societies in the World, while mainstreaming Gender at all levels, will help align strongly to the adopted SDGs, including the above listed Goals.

As women engineers, architects and scientists of the world are included in the process, on equal basis, we believe our major strength is to propose clearly to contribute to GOAL 5. Of course, we also are contributing to major development goals listed above.

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